Associate Engineer

TITLE: Associate Engineer - Project Development

LOCATIONS: NY - Kirkwood - JACC , NY- Rochestor , CT- Orange

SALARY RANGE: $64,538 - $80,673

Work-Type : OFFICE

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is part of a diverse team of utility experts tasked with creating and executing on a best-in-class T&S asset planning strategy across AVANGRID. This role utilizes practical and analytic knowledge to perform needs and solution studies on T&S assets at all voltage levels including the development of mitigating projects and programs.

Responsibilities:

• Execution of the AVANGRID Asset Management initiative in the electric networks organization.
• Point for decision making and navigation of T&S projects through the Investment Planning process from inception through construction. This includes technical oversight of all projects, including legacy projects, through the various stages of design and construction.
• Research, development, continual refinement, and execution of an industry leading T&S asset planning strategy.
• Ensuring that T&S asset condition needs across AVANGRID are identified, prioritized, and addressed with appropriate mitigating solutions in a comprehensive manner.
• Centralized oversight, development, support, and coordination of the T&S capital project portfolio ensuring they have been properly vetted and documented in support of prudent and defendable CAPEX investment decision making.
• Anticipation, preparation and initiation of strategy discussions and activities as required to meet regulator, customer and key stakeholder expectations in support of business growth objectives.
• Developing and building collaborative and constructive relationships with regulators and ISO’s by ensuring proposals are thoughtful, prudent, and well documented.

• Required experience may be in any combination of Transmission and Substation (T&S) planning, design, operations, asset management or maintenance.
• Demonstrated ability to provide significant value as a collaborating team member in the resolution of unique and complex problems having a broad impact on the Transmission or Distribution Business.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical: Performs or collaborates on all aspects of T&S asset analysis as necessary to advance need and solution studies in order to inform prudent investment decision making (includes electrical, civil, and structural analysis).

Communicate, influence and motivate: Use of good verbal and written communication skills with all levels of management to inform and influence others, providing strategic input for business plans and decision making.

Predict needs, direct the development of solutions: Support studies and activities required to identify issues and system needs, evaluate threats/opportunities, define and prioritize system-wide solutions based on risk, value and implementation complexity.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Develop self & others.
• Empower to grow.
• Collaborate and share.
• Be a role model.
• Focus to achieve results.
• Be agile.

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