Intern – Geologist, Civil / Environmental Engineer
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System Protection Engineer – Entry, Staff, Senior
Xcel Energy
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Minneapolis • Colorado, Minnesota • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $68,300 - $126,134 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Works with transmission planning and substation/transmission engineering group to scope and execute capital projects.
- Maintain compliance with several NERC PRC Standards.
- Support other departments (ie planning, operations, and field engineering) in day-to-day operations of the electric transmission and distribution systems.
- Perform work that involves conventional types of plans, investigations, surveys, structures or equipment with relatively few complex features.
- May lead small-medium, non-critical projects and/or provide field oversight of critical projects under direction of higher-level engineer or supervisor.
- Support the development of technical documentation (including designs, testing, calculations, reports, standards, etc.).
- Provide ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory, etc.
- Coordinate/leads projects or portions of projects under the direction of a higher-level engineer or supervisor.
- Support bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that support the preparation of bid documents.
- Effectively exchanges information in all formats on matters having a wide range of importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.
- May coordinate the work of interns, drafters, technicians, and/or others and provides guidance and mentoring to less experienced engineers.
- Perform electric transmission/distribution event investigation and corrective action plan as necessary.
- Responsible for company compliance with a variety of NERC PRC standards.
Requirements
- Required bachelor's degree in engineering from ABET accredited curriculum, electrical engineering degree preferred.
- 0+ years relevant engineering experience
- Ability to demonstrate the unique technical skills and core competencies for this engineering level established & documented by the organization.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering from ABET accredited, electrical engineering degree preferred (for Staff Engineer Level).
- 2+ years relevant engineering experience (for Staff Engineer Level).
- Demonstrated broad knowledge & proficiency in specialty area, knowledge of related specialties, & general knowledge of other related disciplines (for Staff Engineer Level).
- EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering) strongly preferred (for Staff Engineer Level).
- 5+ years relevant engineering experience with EIT/FE (Engineer in Training/Fundamentals of Engineering) required; 7+ years relevant engineering experience without EIT/FE (for Senior Engineer Level).
Benefits
- Annual Incentive Program
- Medical/Pharmacy Plan
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Care Reimbursement Account
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA)
- Transportation Reimbursement Account
- Short-term disability (STD)
- Long-term disability (LTD)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Transit programs
- Employee recognition program
- Pension
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Holidays
- Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO)
- Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
electric transmission engineeringsubstation engineeringcapital project executiontechnical documentation developmentinvestigationssurveystestingcalculationsregulatory complianceproject coordination
Soft skills
communicationleadershipmentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingtechnical supportinformation exchangeguidanceteam coordinationanalysis
Certifications
EITFEbachelor's degree in engineeringABET accreditation