Flexible Work Arrangement: Hybrid
PJM plays an essential role in ensuring the reliability of the electricity grid covering over 65 million people in the Eastern Interconnection. PJM runs the US's largest competitive wholesale electricity market that looks forward to incorporate the everchanging energy landscape, adapting to the growing demand for electricity, new regulatory policies, and the clean energy transition. PJM is at the forefront in innovating new business roles, processes, and tools to ensure the lights stay on in an economical and reliable manner.
Electric power transmission and generation has evolved substantively since its inception, to the creation of PJM in 1927, to the Eastern Interconnection of today. Renewables and Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) are creating new variables and challenges for transmission system planning and reliability analysis, as we look to further the evolution into tomorrow. The Outage Analysis Technologies team is responsible for advancing some of the most critical business analysis and coordination tools within the organization, aiding engineers, analysts and PJM Control Room staff in streamlining their workflow while expanding PJM Operations reliability point of view.
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PJM has more to offer:
- Flex First schedule and location
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits program
- Ample personal development training/opportunities
- Diverse, challenging, innovative and collaborative work environment
- Highly visible and meaningful work
How you will make a difference on the team:
- Developing PJM tools which enhance PJM Operations reliability analysis, for yourself and others
- Maximizing the transmission of electricity while maintaining reliability in the Operations Planning time horizon in coordination with PJM members and neighboring ISO/RTO
- Problem solving to enhance PJM Operations view into existing and rising technological challenges
- Participating in a variety of project opportunities across a spectrum of tools and technologies suited to your skillset and aims
- Delivering quality and respectful coordination amongst PJM staff, peers and PJM members
- Enhancing your personal skillset and knowledge in order to understand and deliver solutions
- Working, individually and within a team, to trouble-shoot and solve operational issues
- Blending engineering and application development as an engineer-developer
- Creating positive direct interactions with team-members, application end-users /consumers, PJM ITS, and PJM members
Essential Functions:
- Coordinate with Dispatch and Reliability Engineers proposed enhancements to applications and processes, propose development of new tools and processes, and assist in the development of tools for the evaluation of reliable, efficient, and economic system operation
- Support PJM integration leadership around renewable generation and GETs (synchrophasors, dynamic line ratings, power-flow control devices, etc.)
- Create innovative engine solutions in an enhanced and enriching user-experience
- Develop, refine and implement functionality to create increased efficiencies and improved reliability for engineering and control room teams
- Engineers support Operational Planning tools/initiatives such as TSA/VSA, TARA, IEP, and eDART
- Coordinate Transmission and Generation Outages, schedule generation to meet PJM forecasted load, and perform and document power system analyses
- Manage Transmission Outage Process - Perform power flow analysis, grant, or reject near-term transmission outage requests, communicating any identified operational issues
- Maintain transmission outage schedules in coordination with transmission owners
- Contribute toward the development and finalization of PJM's NERC Operational Planning Analysis
- Develop and maintain the necessary transmission system models
- Support PJM Procedures/initiatives - Engineers create/revise transmission operating procedures and maintain PJM manual language
- Conduct seasonal operating studies under the auspices of the OATF and other RRO study initiatives
- Support PJM compliance efforts to adhere to FERC, NERC and RRO standards
- Coordinate the analysis activities of less experienced engineers, review results of analysis performed by other engineers
- Develop Operational Base Cases and Conduct Seasonal Studies - Create operational base cases from the MMWG series cases using PSS/E
- Represent PJM on Transmission-related Committees and Study Groups - Represent PJM on committees sponsored by NERC, RFC, PJM, or others
Characteristics & Qualifications:
Required:
- BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience Developing engineering applications.
- Ability to produce high-quality work products with attention to detail
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Ability to use mathematical and electrical theory
- Ability to troubleshoot and provide technical support
- MS degree in Engineering
- 0-5 years of experience Developing engineering applications in the areas of automation and streamlining workflow.
- Experience with PJM operations, markets, and planning functions