Principal Engineer – Electrical

Job Title: Principal – Electrical Engineer

Work Type: Office

Salary: The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from $128,000 to $143,000

We do offer Sign on Bonus + Relocation + Awesome Benefits

The engineer will lead teams/projects that solve unique and complex problems with a broad impact on the business. These efforts will contribute to the development of Departmental or Divisional strategy and implementation. Participates and represents UI on industry associations. Mentor’s other employees.

Has developed depth and breadth of expertise in distributed generation and broad knowledge of other disciplines. Maintains knowledge of leading-edge techniques or technology through participation in professional associations. Recognized as an expert in own area within the organization and industry.

Able to explain complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others to change. Able to communicate orally or in writing to regulatory and/or public entities. Leads teams, acts as a facilitator and experienced mentor.

And influence others to change. Able to communicate orally or in writing to regulatory and/or public entities. Able to lead a Team or mentor others.

• Proactively identify and perform special projects and studies that innovatively solve unique & complex problems with broad impact to the business. Develop alternate methods or design concepts to resolve unique problems or to improve processes/services.
• Solves unique and complex Distributed Generation (DG) Interconnection problems. Utilizes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions. (e.g., Customer generators, photovoltaic systems, fuel cells).
• Approve, maintain, & understand drawings (e.g., schematics, one-line diagrams). Assemble documents & other requirements for assignments of complex level of difficulty using depth & breadth of expertise in own discipline.
• Recognized expert for generator interconnections. Interpret internal/external business issues and recommend best practices and/or process improvements. Participate in Industry associations.
• Lead teams and acts as a facilitator and experienced mentor. Develops innovative services, technologies, & make recommendations with respect to current and future stakeholders needs. May be required to make presentations to regulatory/public entities.
• Facilitate DG Interconnection project teams to complete assigned tasks and projects. Experienced mentor to engineers for DG interconnections in design and engineering development. Manages and provides direction for resources outside of the department.
• Design systems to resolve overly complex problems in non-standard situations & develop creative solutions that achieve division results. Independently apply design standards, industry codes, design criteria, guidelines & UI polices/procedures.
• Has depth and breadth of knowledge and interprets processes and standards related to DG. Recommends solutions and best practices where appropriate. Represents Engineering on projects, task forces and studies.
• Develop business cases and manage divisional and company-wide projects/processes/initiatives. Participates in the development of the project/process strategy, in addition to project execution.
• Forecast, plan, schedule, monitor, control budget/estimates, construction plans. Participate in the management of resource allocations to ensure adequate resources are available.
• Utilize knowledge to influence and guide department engineers
• Provide technical leadership in most complex projects that have a wide impact on the business
• Mentor, develop and support team in technical skills SME for team
• Liaison/ direct contractors on company policy, standards, and best practices
• Work independently with little supervision
• Principal Engineer:
  • Utilize knowledge to influence and guide department engineers.
  • Provide technical leadership in most complex projects that have a wide impact on the business
  • Mentor, develop and support team in technical skills
  • SME for team
  • Liaison/ direct contractors on company policy, standards, and best practices
  • Work independently with little supervision

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