Smart Meter Engineer

Role:
Smart Meter Engineer Duration: 2 Years

Location:

Dunbar, PA / Akron, OH Description

The Meter Engineer is a technical subject-matter expert responsible for transmission revenue meters, PJM Generation projects and Company Tie Lines.

The Meter Engineer works directly in the Meter Engineering Group reporting to the Manager/Supervisor.

• Must be able to manage multiple simultaneous projects.
• Multiple PJM projects will be going on concurrently.
• Understanding the Client life cycle processes of meters which includes:
• Meter forecasting.
• Understanding how meters are purchased.
• Understand Components of a metering system:
• Which meter forms are used on services
• Meter Vector associated with each service
• Meter design
• Transmission Interconnections with peer utilities
• Intra-company connections
• PJM Generation Projects
• State Line Crossings
• Current Transformer sizing
• Equipment and wiring practices
• Estimates for Transmission Capital Projects
• Being familiar with what equipment is required for a project.
• Use estimating tools to estimate equipment and labor costs.
• Calculation of transformer loss and line loss meter settings
• Obtaining and storing transformer test sheets.
• Obtaining and storing transmission line parameters.
• Develop meter settings to properly calculate losses.
• Confirm meter output is within expected ranges after being programmed.
• Working with other groups within Client to do the following:
• Reporting and making presentations to Managers and Directors.
• Developing or assisting the development of test scenarios for smart meters that could be executed by the Meter Engineering/Test Lab teams.
• Representing the Meter Engineering/Test Lab function on project teams.
• Participating and lending expertise to FE team projects that impact metering or meter records.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited school is required. Position level requires a minimum of 1-3 years previous related engineering experience.
• Candidate must possess exceptional analytical and problem solving ability, supplemented by strong customer service and leadership skills, excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, decision making and leadership skills and excel communication and presentation skills.
• Good computer skills with some proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, database query tools.

• Bachelor s degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited school required or be a professionally certified engineer (PE License) and have a Bachelor of Science Degree in a technical subject (Engineering Technology, Physics, etc.). Professional Engineering (PE) License preferred.
• Minimum of 3 (three) years of experience.
• Candidate must possess exceptional analytical and problem solving ability, supplemented by strong customer service and leadership skills, excellent verbal and written skills.
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, decision making and leadership skills with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent personal computing skills; including proficiency in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, database query tools.

• All of the above plus:
  Bachelor s degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited school required or be a professionally certified engineer (PE License) and have a Bachelor of Science Degree in a technical subject (Engineering Technology, Physics, etc.). Professional Engineering (PE) License preferred.
• 7 yrs of prior Engineering experience working in related field.
• Candidates must possess exceptional analytical and problem solving ability, supplemented by strong customer service and leadership skills, excellent verbal and written skills.
• Preferred experiences include strong computer skills / aptitude & SAP knowledge. Crews, toad, Power
  
  BI, CAD are a plus.