Electrical Engineer

1 month ago

Portland, United States ACS Professional Staffing Full time

Overview:


ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work remote with our client. This Electrical Engineer role will offer a dynamic blend of technical expertise and operational support. This position will ensure smooth power grid operation through control center and dispatching duties, while also lending engineering skills to project implementation, field crew assistance, and other activities alongside project managers and engineering teams. This full-time position is located in Portland, OR.


Responsibilities:

  • Provide a high level of professional engineering expertise, support and assistance in planning and implementing software projects critical to Transmission Services.
  • Provide technical engineering expertise, input, and recommendations to appropriate manager / personnel for determining specifications and planning upgrade of systems in the Dispatch Training Facility.
  • maintain documentation of procedures & processes used in the development, integration & deployment, triage, troubleshooting & implementation of corrections to ETS.
  • Provide training to other staff on above processes & procedures.
  • With oversight and approval from the manager, design, and code diagnostic software to assist hardware personnel in finding and resolving hardware problems.
  • Provide Operation & Maintenance (O&M) support for the DTF Power System Model including supporting integration with the SCADA, AGC & PSST clones including:
  • Triage, troubleshooting & repair of system problems.
  • System performance monitoring.
  • Application corrections, improvements & functional enhancements as defined.
  • Follow established software control standards and procedures and maintain quality documentation.
  • Maintain documentation, files and filing system(s) in accordance with compliance requirements. Verify all official records are accurately maintained for auditing purposes. Maintain file records in accordance with Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) standards and procedures.
  • Study existing failures and electronic problem reports, including those of hardware interfaces, to investigate and research current problems / issues.
  • Work with the hardware staff, dispatchers, communications, and field personnel, as required, to draft and present root cause / problem analysis and corrective action recommendations for review, consideration, and acceptance by manager / personnel.
  • Recommend software solutions and procedures to recover from malfunctions to keep downtime to a minimum for review, consideration, and acceptance by manager / personnel.
  • Monitor and analyze computer performance, alerting appropriate manager / personnel and documenting issues, concerns, status, etc.
  • Recommend alternate solutions, such as hardware changes, if they are considered necessary to improve performance, for manager / personnel review and approval; install and implement management-approved changes.
  • Draft operational procedures for computer operators, the Network and System Operations Center (N-SOC), software staff, and other users as required; submit draft materials for review, finalization, and approval by manager / personnel prior to use.
  • Provide routine / standard technical engineering expertise, assistance, and approved training to the operators, N-SOC’s, and hardware and software staff, under appropriate oversight of manager / personnel.


Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (from an ABET accredited school) is required.
  • 10+ year’s previous engineering and/or design experience, with a diversified knowledge of engineering concepts, principles and practices experience required.
  • Data systems & control systems design, principles, practices & concepts.
  • Working in IT systems pertaining to control & operation of a complex real-time system.
  • In addition, the system management & administration tasks require knowledge & experience working with:
  • GE Habitat database & display environment versions 4.1.2 thru 5.11 and above
  • GE EMP application version 1.51PLUS thru 3.3
  • Migration of GE systems from EMP 2.6 to 3.x
  • GE eterraSource product
  • Programming, including obsolete languages (FORTRAN) and uncommon languages (QVTO)
  • Experience in utility sector enterprise IT.
  • Project management & coordination concepts & principles.
  • Project management of complex projects with many requirements & divergent goals.
  • Offsite Work


Work sponsorship is not available at this time. Third-party candidates will not be considered for this position.


Because we are a federal government contractor, we have special restrictions placed on us for hiring foreign nationals into certain key positions within the company. This particular position requires U.S. citizenship.


ACS Professional Staffing will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to the applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, gender, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected by federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.


If you have any questions about the job posting, please contact recruiting@acsprostaffing.com


If you have any questions about our Reasonable Accommodation Policy, please feel free to email hr@acsprostaffing.com

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