Junior System Planning Consultant

🕒 September 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

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💼 Consultant

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E Source

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1986

⚡ Energy

💼 Consulting

🤝 B2B

Energy • Consulting • B2B

E Source is a research, data-science, and consulting firm that helps electric, gas, and water utilities make and implement data-driven decisions. The company combines industry-leading research, benchmarking, consulting services, and applied analytics (including machine learning and AI support) to improve customer experience, optimize grid operations, modernize business and field processes, and design and evaluate energy programs. E Source offers solutions across customer operations, DER strategy and measurement, AMI planning and implementation, vegetation/storm/wildfire/reliability intelligence, interconnection studies, data strategy and governance, and workforce and technology transformation. It serves utilities across North America and emphasizes linking strategy to execution for measurable operational and customer outcomes.

📋 Description

• Deliver Transmission Adequacy and Reliability Assessments (TARA) for clients across MISO and SPP footprints • Execute TARA studies for near- and long-term planning horizons of 5–20 years • Apply NERC TPL-001 through TPL-004 standards and MISO/SPP planning criteria • Structure and run steady-state power flow and contingency analyses for generation interconnection, load interconnection, and reliability assessments • Identify and assess thermal overloads, voltage violations, and reliability impacts under forecasted system conditions • Run studies in PSS®E and PowerGEM TARA, managing large contingency sets and complex study cases • Support development and validation of planning models, assumptions, and base cases • Document study assumptions, methods, and conclusions in audit-ready and defensible formats • Identify and evaluate transmission solutions, including new lines, reconductoring, uprating, reactive power solutions, topology changes, operational mitigations, and non-wires alternatives • Compare alternatives based on reliability benefit, cost, constructability, and implementation timing • Communicate residual risk where full mitigation is not immediately feasible • Support ISO submissions, stakeholder reviews, and regulatory or compliance inquiries • Serve as technical point of contact for assigned projects • Present TARA results to utilities, developers, and ISO/RTO working groups

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field • 5+ years of progressive experience in transmission planning • Demonstrated experience leading studies using TARA software • Strong working knowledge of NERC TPL standards and regional planning criteria • Advanced proficiency with PSS®E for planning studies • Proven ability to independently develop and defend transmission solutions • Direct experience with MISO and/or SPP planning processes (MTEP, ITP, DISIS) is an advantage • Experience supporting ISO planning cycles, stakeholder processes, or NERC audits is an advantage • Experience with renewable integration and inverter-based resource (IBR) impacts is an advantage • Python or other scripting to automate planning studies is an advantage • Experience with PowerWorld, PSLF, or equivalent planning tools is an advantage • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada • Must be able to pass a detailed background check if offered employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans • Company-paid life insurance • Company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance • Medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans • Paid parental leave • Flexible time off (FTO) policy • 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match • Opportunity to grow skills and contribute to meaningful work