{"id":1237118,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aeso-engineer-event-analysis","title":"Engineer, Event Analysis","company":{"id":1051622,"name":"AESO","domain":"aeso.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/aeso","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Calgary, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":85000,"max_usd":176000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":300},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T16:17:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T07:05:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) is responsible for the safe, reliable, and economic planning and operation of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System. We provide open and non-discriminatory access to Alberta’s interconnected power grid and also facilitate Alberta’s competitive wholesale electricity market. The AESO strives to foster an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace where people feel respected and welcomed for who they are, together we deliver high performance and innovative results.\nJob Description\nIf you are a current AESO employee, please view openings and apply through our internal site at Workday.\nReporting to the Manager, Operations Planning, the Engineer, Event Analysis analyzes events affecting system reliability and helps ensure that real-time observations are shared and addressed to support effective operation of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System (AIES). You will assess notable events for reliability issues, provide analysis for AESO compliance activities, and manage communication with internal and external stakeholders.\nAs part of the Event Analysis team, you will continually monitor system performance, identify performance issues, and draw lessons from real-time events that inform operational readiness and risk management. With a strong data focus, you will integrate and analyze operational information, develop automated monitoring tools, and create traceable evidence that supports defensible compliance assessments.\nSigns you will enjoy the position\nYou enjoy working with high-volume SCADA, PMU, EMS, market, outage, and settlement data to uncover reliability and compliance insights.\nYou are energized by translating operational requirements and compliance obligations into measurable rules, thresholds, indicators, and test logic.\nYou like designing automated tools, dashboards, and workflows that improve monitoring, exception detection, alerting, and reporting.\nYou enjoy investigating notable events, determining root causes, and recommending corrective or preventive actions.\nYou value maintaining clear source-data documentation, assumptions, evidence packages, and audit trails.\nYou are comfortable communicating technical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nSigns you will enjoy working in this team\nYou enjoy collaborating with Operations, Compliance, Information Technology, and facility-owner organizations.\nYou value bringing together operational data, engineering analysis, and compliance requirements to reach defensible conclusions.\nYou enjoy sharing analytical practices and lessons learned while mentoring engineers and technical staff.\nYou can work effectively across long-term planning and real-time operations in ambiguous and time-sensitive environments.\nYou are motivated by continually improving monitoring methods and helping teams resolve identified reliability or compliance gaps.\nYour main accountabilities\nCollect, integrate, validate, and analyze high-volume SCADA, PMU, EMS, market, outage, and settlement data to assess asset performance and compliance with applicable ISO rules and Alberta Reliability Standards.\nTranslate compliance obligations and operational requirements into measurable data rules, thresholds, indicators, and test logic.\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain automated tools, dashboards, and workflows for continuous or scheduled compliance monitoring, exception detection, alerting, and reporting.\nAnalyze events, determine root causes, assess reliability and compliance risks, and recommend corrective or preventive actions.\nCreate and maintain traceable analysis records, source-data documentation, assumptions, evidence packages, and audit trails that support defensible compliance assessments.\nCollaborate with Operations, Compliance, Information Technology, and generation and transmission facility owners to confirm findings, obtain additional information, and support timely resolution of identified gaps.\nTrack trends, recurring exceptions, mitigation commitments, and closure evidence; communicate risks, findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders; and continually improve monitoring methods.\nWhat you need - Education and Experience\nA bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from an accredited college or university.\nProfessional Engineer designation (P. Eng.) with APEGA.\n5 years of electric power industry experience, with relevant experience in operations planning, event or disturbance analysis, power-system modelling and analysis, protection and control, customer connections, transmission planning, or engineering economics.\nWorking knowledge of SCADA, PMU, EMS, or other operational data sources, together with demonstrated experience in event, disturbance, or root-cause analysis.\nStrong data analytics and automation skills including the use of Python\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to collaborate across functions and explain technical findings to varied audiences.\nProven ability to solve problems collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders and to share lessons learned.\nWorking knowledge of Alberta Reliability Standards, ISO rules, compliance evidence requirements, and the Alberta electricity industry framework.\nProven ability to solve highly complex engineering problems when objectives are defined but scope and information are incomplete, including in ambiguous and time-sensitive environments.\nWhy work with us\nThis full-time opportunity offers a competitive salary, along with paid vacation and flex time, health and dental benefits, mental health support, a defined contribution pension plan, and learning and development opportunities as part of the overall compensation package.\nWe support a hybrid work environment. The team is in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with flexibility to work where you are most effective on Mondays and Fridays.\nApplication deadline: October 12, 2026\nIf you are contacted for a pre-screening and/or interview, please advise of any accommodation measures required to enable you to fully participate. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.\nThe Alberta Electric System Operator is unable to accept unsolicited agency resumes.\nThe Alberta Electric System Operator, and its members, officers, employees and agents (collectively, the \"AESO\") is committed to protecting personal information provided to it. When you submit your personal information to the AESO for the purpose of pursuing employment with the AESO, the collection, use and disclosure of personal information is in accordance with the provisions of the Protection of Privacy Act (POPA) of Alberta.\nAs noted, the AESO is mandated to maintain the safe and reliable operations of the provincial power grid. As part of meeting its obligations, the AESO may require the successful candidate to undergo a criminal background check for the position. 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