Puget Sound Energy · 13 hours ago
Principal Engineer - Grid Modernization
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$125K/yr - $207K/yr
10+ years expPuget Sound Energy is looking to grow their community with top talented individuals. The Principal Engineer - Grid Modernization will provide technical guidance for creating strategic plans for building, operating and maintaining a reliable, resilient, smart, flexible and clean grid.
Utilities
Responsibilities
Provides professional engineering services and technical leadership and expertise in a specialized field of engineering to broadly stated technical problems. Solutions provided by the engineer may involve unconventional or advanced problem-solving techniques. Assignments involve a substantial degree of complexity, with many interrelated elements, requiring considerations not previously encountered
Evaluates new emerging technologies to ensure all issues are addressed holistically and that solutions are tailored to PSE’s business environment. Includes preparing of cost estimates and evaluations for project alternatives
Develops strategies and pilot project plans for presentation to senior management on emerging grid technology
Develops and builds interdepartmental consensus on analytical approaches and related critical input assumptions that will shape the Company’s grid modernization strategy and/or its implementation
Collaboratively builds and maintains strong relationships with internal departments and external stakeholder groups related to grid modernization
Responsible for solving unique problems using advanced analytical techniques
Communicates solutions and strategies to personnel possessing a wide variety of educational and employment backgrounds including in public forums in both verbal and written forms
Develops, executes and maintains department strategy to support overall business objectives
May lead or coordinate the work of engineers, engineering assistants, field technicians, and others who assist on specific projects. (This includes contractor/consultants.)
Reviews the work of internal and external (consulting or contract) engineering staff
Documents and shares work with others to strengthen the depth and breadth of skills within PSE’s engineering workforce
Provides technical leadership to others in the department and throughout the company. Maintain knowledge of industry developments and best practices
Interprets and/or modifies available guidelines for application to existing problems or processes
Identifies potential areas of weakness with team’s work, and initiate corrective action
Ensures that problem solutions are tailored to PSE’s business environment
Ensures compliance with codes, standards, and design, operation, and maintenance requirements
Promotes and supports a culture of total safety
Supports emergency response work as requested including immediate and extended restoration efforts driven by weather and other system failures
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science degree or PE license in electrical, mechanical, civil, or other appropriate engineering field
Extensive experience in planning, design, specification preparation, maintenance, project cost estimating and scheduling (typically achieved after 10 or more years practice as a degreed engineer)
Advanced technical and scientific expertise
Experience leading engineering projects
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to work effectively and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external customers
Preferred
Experience working within the utility industry
Possession of a Professional Engineering License
Ability to work effectively and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external customers
Knowledge and experience with emerging grid technologies
Experience leading or managing interdepartmental teams
Strong written and oral presentation skills
Knowledge of engineering economics and utility accounting practices
Experience working on complex engineering projects
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic life
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Supplemental life insurance
Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare
Employee assistance program (EAP)
401(k) investment option
Cash balance retirement plan
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid Holidays
Company
Puget Sound Energy
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is Washington state’s oldest local energy company.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Wade Smith
EVP & COO
Lorna Luebbe
General Counsel/Senior Vice President/Chief Sustainability Officer
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