Transmission Planner

Description: Leidos offers its knowledge and expertise over a wide area of cutting-edge energy technologies and independent oversight, combined with proven business acumen. Building our work for publicly and privately owned utilities, financial institutions and local governments, we are able to provide our clients with business insight into all sectors of the infrastructure industry. We are seeking a Transmission Planner who will contribute to our dynamic team within our Energy & Systems Solutions, and who will provide transmission planning consulting services as both an engineer and as a project manager as client needs dictate. This position will contribute to the expansion of Leidos Engineering and the existing Transmission Planning consulting practice. It is expected that this role will involve the management of complex transmission planning studies both independently and also serve as a mentor: guiding junior staff who are assigned to perform similar studies. Studies are conducted for Municipal Utilities, Investor Owned Utilities, and Regional Planning organizations such as ISO's and RTO's, as well as providing transmission consulting services for Developer and Independent Power Producer Clients. Transmission Planner responsibilities: Build and maintain client relationships, assist with expanding the current client base and contribute to the growth and expansion of Transmission Planning consulting services Perform assigned transmission planning analyses under senior-engineer direction, applying QA/QC procedures and incorporating review feedback. Sales and business development activities will be expected The candidate should possess solid understanding of power system analysis concepts, including transmission system planning and familiarity with NERC reliability standards Experience with common industry accepted analytical tools such as PSS/E, PSLF, PowerGEM TARA, DSA Tools TSAT, Power World, ASPEN, CAPE/APA, EMTP and PSCAD are highly desirable The candidate must be experienced and capable of functioning both as a team member and in a leadership role in transmission studies Contribute to technical writing of project proposals and responses to industry RFIs and RFPsParticipate and present in industry forums and conferences as the opportunity arises