About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Manager – Transmission Planning Utilities with expert knowledge of the ERCOT/NYISO/NEISO system to lead a team of Engineering Managers and technical experts delivering valuable and forward-thinking services to utilities and ISOs. This role is accountable for ensuring excellent execution, technical oversight, client management and staff development.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert level understanding of the ERCOT system to both EPE and ERCOT team members
- Support transmission engineering managers and individual contributors for planning, studies, modeling, and automation etc.
- Take responsibility for the team’s timely completion of a portfolio of projects while meeting project quality and budget objectives
- Provide guidance, knowledge, and experience to electrical engineers performing power system steady state, short circuit, dynamic stability, and electromagnetic transient studies
- Develop team resource utilization and revenue forecasting to keep the team on track to meet billable hour and revenue targets and ensure effective hiring/resource management
- Promote process improvement efforts to enhance efficiency
- Maintain EPE’s high client satisfaction
- Support responses to RFPs and development of Scopes of Work
- Participate and coordinate industry involvement through conferences, speaking opportunities, and engagements
- Build and manage key customer relationships
Requirements
- Exceptional understanding of project execution, team, and time management in a consulting environment with proven success
- Strong people skills, with ability to draw confidence, ensure technical accuracy, and maintain client satisfaction
- Independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to keep multiple projects and client engagements active at once
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate uncertainty
- Proven team player skills with ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent business, and technical writing
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Strong time management skills
- Experience or familiarity with PSS/E, TARA, DSATools, Aspen, and other transmission analysis tools
- Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)
Skills
- ERCOT/NYISO/NEISO system knowledge
- Power system steady state studies
- Short circuit studies
- Dynamic stability studies
- Electromagnetic transient studies
- Project execution
- Team management
- Time management
- Client management
- Staff development
- Resource utilization forecasting
- Revenue forecasting
- Process improvement
- RFP response
- Scope of Work development
- Industry engagement
- Customer relationship management
- Critical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Technical writing
- PSS/E
- TARA
- DSATools
- Aspen
Location
- Remote US
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 7+ years of experience in power systems engineering roles
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- MyShare Employee ownership program
- Work with industry leaders
- 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
About the Company
- We are designing the grid of the future!
- Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence.
- For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges.
- As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.
- Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live.
- Together we can transform the future of energy.
Equal Opportunity
- EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer.
