Principal Consultant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Act as a technical authority and subject matter expert in transmission planning, interconnection, reliability, and associated fields.

• Oversee intricate, multidisciplinary project planning, execution, and delivery.

• Provide technical guidance and engineering leadership for power system models, studies, analyses, and outputs.

• Utilize advanced engineering judgment to navigate complex technical and business obstacles.

• Counsel clients and serve as the primary point of contact for key stakeholders.

• Direct technical evaluations and quality assurance processes.

• Recognize project risks, formulate mitigation strategies, and communicate challenges and opportunities.

• Mentor engineers, consultants, and technical personnel.

• Facilitate business development through client interactions, proposal formulation, scope definition, and technical strategy.

• Represent the organization in industry committees, working groups, conferences, publications, and presentations.

• Enhance engineering methodologies, tools, standards, and business processes.

• Assist with transmission planning, reliability evaluations, NERC TPL compliance, transfer capability and congestion analysis, interconnection studies, utility operations, and regulatory initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited institution is required; an advanced degree is preferred.

• A Professional Engineer (PE) license is mandatory.

• At least 15 years of pertinent experience; this may be reduced to 12 years for exceptionally qualified candidates with a PE license.

• Proven experience leading technical projects and client collaborations within the electric utility sector.

• Background in conducting engineering studies for transmission systems, generation resources, energy storage facilities, and large load interconnections.

• Familiarity with electric utility planning, operations, reliability, and regulatory practices.

• Proficient in PSS®E, PSLF, PSCAD, ASPEN, ETAP, TARA, or similar power system analysis software.

• Experience with Python, C, C++, or comparable programming and automation languages.

• Excellent technical writing, presentation, communication, mentoring, and engineering oversight competencies.

• Capacity to exercise independent engineering judgment and make discretionary technical choices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off and benefits.

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.

• Career development initiatives.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Flexible work schedule.