Electronics Engineer 3 - Sys Planning/Coordinator

Title: Electronics Engineer 3 - Sys Planning/Coordinator
Location: Vancouver, WA (hybrid)
Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)
Pay Range: $66.60 $69.82 per hour

This function provides professional engineering expertise in assisting project manager and other engineering personnel in implementing management approved projects, supporting field maintenance crews and other related engineering activities. This includes facilitating engineering, design, and implementation for assigned projects. In addition, this function will provide professional engineering expertise in assisting project managers and other engineering personnel in implementing projects, supporting field maintenance crews, and other related engineering activities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Perform simulation studies and document findings in formal reports.
• Compile technical results in summary form such as tables, reports, and graphics to support engineering staff.
• Develop and maintain databases related to engineering/scientific applications.
• Conduct efficiency studies on various projects and provides recommendations.
• Provide planning support, coordinates plans of service with stakeholders, and implements plans for assigned projects.
• Performs field research by traveling to remote sites to collect physical data.
• Prepare detailed design, material, or procurement specifications for equipment, verifying that technical tradeoffs have been considered, and that decisions conform to existing policies and standards and are within budgetary constraints.
• Prepare and process work statements, procurement requests, detail sheets, receiving reports and invoices for various contracts.
• Prepare engineering designs or assist in developing engineering requirements for the development, installation and modification of BPA facilities.
• Perform review and modification of design drawings.
• Provide technical support to construction, operations and maintenance personnel.
• Plan communications, control and data systems for network transmission, network interconnections and customer service projects.
• Develop communications/control plans in conjunction with fulfilling transmission service requests.
• Perform long-range studies of the Telecommunications System composed of radio and fiber for adequacy of capacity.
• Develop options, evaluating and selecting the preferred plan and making recommendations for meeting communications/control system functional requirements.
• Identify system requirements from problems or opportunities identified by others.
• Document telecommunications decisions to lease or share operational circuits on Bonneville's communications systems.
• Providing analysis and support for planning tools.
• Communicate technical information verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical users
• Provide engineering, design, and implementation responsibility for assigned projects.
• Provide professional engineering expertise in assisting project managers and other engineering personnel in implementing projects, supporting field maintenance crews, and other related engineering activities.
• Using sound engineering practices and judgment, provide the following services:
• Provide planning support, coordinate plans of service with stakeholders, and implement plans for assigned projects.
• Participate on teams to research and test telecommunication and related equipment.
• Assist in development of requirements for technical specifications for procurement of telecommunications systems and equipment, and provides technical support in the administration of material contracts and project management of turnkey system contracts.
• Prepare detailed design, material, or procurement specifications for equipment, ensuring that technical tradeoffs have been considered, and that decisions conform to existing policies and standards and are within budgetary constraints.
• Prepare engineering designs or assist in developing engineering requirements for the development, installation and modification of facilities.
• Provide technical support to construction, operations and maintenance personnel.

Position Requirements:
Education & Corresponding Experience

• A bachelor's degree in electronic engineering or other closely related Engineering field is required.
• 10+ years previous electronics/electrical engineering experience, with a diversified knowledge of engineering concepts, principles and practices experience, is required.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience with the following:
  • Experience in developing cost estimates for communication items.
  • Experience in metering and telemetry requirements as related to interchange projects.
  • Experience disseminating technical information in writing and orally.
  • Experience in planning digital radio systems and long-haul fiber optic systems, preferably SONET systems.
  • Experience developing options, evaluating, and providing a preferred plan for meeting communications/control system functional requirements.
• Working knowledge of transmission and operational telecommunications systems.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 2 years of experience with the use and support of Energy Management Systems (EMS) software in a power system control center environment, with complex computer interrelationships and network topologies.
• 2 years of GE - Alstom e-terraHabitat, e-terraPlatform (EMP), and e-terraControl (SMP) software experience, sufficient to develop, test, and integrate application software in those environments.
• Knowledge of NERC-CIP and FISMA requirements.
• Experience in utility sector enterprise IT.

Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.

Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws. #IND