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Consider joining the Duke Energy team, where you'll find a friendly work environment, opportunities for growth and development, recognition for your work, and competitive pay and benefits.\nThe preferred work location for this postion is Plainfield, IN but other locations within the Duke Energy service territory can be considered.\nPosition Summary\nThis position is responsible for providing technical leadership for Dynamic Stability studies within Duke Energy Grid Stability & Advanced Studies. The successful candidate will serve as a subject matter expert for power system dynamic performance and advanced transmission studies supporting transmission expansion planning, large load interconnections, regulatory compliance, and special system investigations.\nThe Lead Engineer is the technical specialist level of the engineering hierarchy. Employees at this level provide leadership, technical direction, mentoring, and oversight for complex engineering programs and studies with broad organizational impact. The Lead Engineer is expected to exercise independent judgment, establish technical approaches, develop engineering processes and standards, and provide technical guidance to engineers across the organization.\nThis role serves as a primary technical resource for dynamic stability studies in Duke Energy's Midwest territory and will provide support and guidance related to other advanced studies. This role represents Duke Energy in industry and regulatory forums. The position will work closely with internal stakeholders, neighboring utilities, regional transmission organizations, consultants, and project developers to evaluate system performance and identify solutions that maintain reliability while enabling grid growth.\nResponsibilities\nPerform transmission studies including Dynamic Stability, Electromagnetic Transient (EMT), and other advanced power system analyses.\nSupport reliability assessments associated with transmission expansion plans, large load interconnections, generation interconnections, and emerging system conditions.\nProvide technical leadership and guidance for complex engineering studies, analytical methodologies, and modeling practices.\nCoordinate with MISO and PJM planning organizations to support regional planning activities, model development, study assumptions, project evaluations, and stakeholder initiatives.\nParticipate in MISO and PJM technical working groups, stakeholder processes, and regional planning activities.\nSupport coordination with large load developers, generation developers, neighboring utilities, and consultants to ensure accurate modeling information and study assumptions.\nProvide technical oversight of consultant-performed studies, including review of methodologies, assumptions, results, recommendations, and deliverables.\nParticipate in site visits, testing activities, and commissioning support as needed to evaluate system performance and support validation of study assumptions.\nCoordinate with Transmission Planning, Operations, Protection & Control, Generation, and other engineering organizations to ensure models, assumptions, and planning criteria remain current and consistent.\nLead the identification, analysis, and resolution of complex power system issues affecting transmission reliability and grid performance.\nPrepare and present technical studies, reports, recommendations, correspondence, and presentations to leadership, stakeholders, and external organizations.\nManage project schedules, technical deliverables, stakeholder interfaces, and study execution for assigned initiatives.\nSupport development and continuous improvement of study methodologies, modeling practices, technical standards, and planning processes.\nMentor and provide technical guidance to engineers within the organization.\nDevelop and maintain positive working relationships with regulators, regional entities, neighboring utilities, consultants, developers, and internal stakeholders.\nRepresent Duke Energy positively and professionally with external stakeholders, industry organizations, and regulatory bodies.\nSupport compliance with applicable NERC Reliability Standards and regional planning requirements.\nBasic/Required Qualifications\nGraduation from a four-year college or university with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program. A Master's degree in engineering will be considered in lieu of the B. S. engineering degree.\n8 years related work experience\nRegistration as a Professional Engineer\nPreferred Qualifications\nAdvanced degree in Electric Power Systems or related discipline.\nExperience in the electric utility industry.\nExperience working on transmission planning, stability studies, interconnection studies, or advanced system studies.\nExperience working with MISO and/or PJM planning processes, model development, regional planning studies, and stakeholder coordination.\nExperience with transmission planning and stability analysis software including PSS®E, PSCAD, TSAT, TARA, PowerWorld, or similar applications.\nStrong understanding of dynamic stability analysis, EMT studies, harmonics analysis, oscillatory stability, and inverter-based resource performance.\nExperience with transmission system protection principles, protection system design, relay settings, and protection coordination associated with transmission facilities and interconnections.\nExperience supporting large load, data center, renewable generation, inverter-based resource, or generator interconnection projects.\nWorking knowledge of NERC Reliability Standards including TPL-001, CIP-014, MOD-026, MOD-027, MOD-032, and MOD-033.\nExperience coordinating and overseeing technical work performed by consultants and external stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities while providing technical leadership.\nStrong analytical, technical writing, presentation, and communication skills.\nExperience representing utilities before regional entities, industry organizations, working groups, or regulatory bodies.\nProficient in engineering theories, principles, project management, problem solving, and development of technical recommendations.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across multiple organizations\nWorking Conditions\nHybrid Mobility Classification - Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees must live within a reasonable commute to their designated Duke Energy facility, not greater than 50 miles one way. Employees are expected to report to their assigned Duke Energy facility as required and directed by their manager, on average 3 full workdays per regular workweek.\nSome business units may require visits to field sites and/or plants\nTravel Requirements\n5-15%Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)\nNoRepresented/Union Position\nNoVisa Sponsored Position\nNo. This is not a Visa Sponsored Position. 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