System Engineer

Job Summary

Provides expertise and knowledge to ensure the organization's electric service needs are met. Provides engineering services including design and cost estimates for construction and operation of the electrical systems.

Education, Training And Experience

Bachelor's degree in engineering. Years of experience: 2 years, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Essential Functions And Duties

• Perform voltage drop, fault current, flicker, transformer loading, and sectionalizing studies and make recommendations pertaining to system enhancements or load limitations. Check the monthly power bill for anomalies.
• Develop and monitor the annual workplan, work orders, and expenses, including capital requirements for the annual budget.
• Comply with the requirements of the internal compliance procedures for NERC.
• Recommend and advise the Senior Manager of Engineering of system enhancements needed in the work plan preparation.
• Write switching orders and assist and oversee large or complicated switching orders in dispatching.
• Oversee pole testing program and Check pole attachments and provide info to billing.
• Update engineering model with new loads and sectionalizing changes and coordinate with others to update their models.
• Provide demand, energy usage data, and substation seasonal peaks to energy and/or transmission supplier for load forecasting. Analyze power quality data along with line phasing and balancing, check monthly power bill for anomalies.
• Monitor and operate the SCADA system during a load curtailment request and at other times as needed. Advise changes and corrections to the SCADA system.
• Assist crews and service technicians with fault locations.
• Perform duties in accordance with all applicable policies, rules, regulations, and laws pertaining to TCEC.
• Serve members by taking appropriate action on requests and questions promptly and ensure they are always treated with courtesy.
• Maintain effective communications with other departments to ensure coordinated efforts and understanding in carrying out objectives. Work to obtain mutual agreement on problems involving coordination.
• Physical presence at TCEC headquarters or designated territory is required. Essential functions must be performed in person.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Knowledge of planning, organizing, and coordinating a variety of activities.
• Ability to prepare and present reports, work plans, budgets, estimates, and performance records.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Knowledge of computer skills including application of spreadsheet, database structures, word processing and engineering software.
• Strong interpersonal skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with members, management staff, and other associates.
  
  

Occasional Responsibilities And Duties

• Participate in technical, professional and community activities.
• Travel by automobile or airplane for work, training or planning purposes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Physical, Mental And Visual Demands

• Majority of time requires sitting, bending at neck, waist, legs, and arms; twist body; and change positions at will. Frequent driving. Occasional standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, reaching, and stooping.
• Exertion of 10 pounds of force frequently, up to 20 pounds of force occasionally. While in the field lifting or moving objects 25 pounds or over occasionally.
• Requires repetitive motions with hands and fingers such as keyboarding, use of telephones, cell phones, etc.
• Requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus.
• Must be able to see, hear, and speak.
• Noise level in work environment is moderate. Work requires close attention to detail and accuracy and is varied in nature with regular interruptions. Work is subject to irregular hours.
  
  

Supervision Received And Exercised

Receives general guidance and direction from the Sr. Manager of Engineering. Supervises and directs none.

This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive; an employee will also perform other job responsibilities s assigned by the immediate supervisor or management.

Management reserves the right to change position descriptions, specifications or work schedules to accommodate individuals with disabilities or as the need arises.

This position description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Pursuant to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act, TCEC employees whose position(s) involve tasks or duties which TCEC reasonably believes could affect the safety and health of the employee performing the task or others are still subject to discipline under TCEXC's drug-testing policies for violations of said policies due to the usage and/or possession of marijuana.

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