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We partner with leading electric and gas utilities to provide strategic advisory and disciplined execution across program management, business intelligence, and field execution oversight. Guided by integrity, trust, excellence, and accountability, our team helps deliver complex capital programs and build the resilient energy infrastructure that communities depend on.\nPosition Overview\nCARIAN is seeking a Transmission Portfolio Engineer to support the development, planning, and management of a major electric utility's transmission capital investment portfolio.\nThis role will work at the intersection of transmission engineering, capital planning, project development, portfolio management, and project execution. The Transmission Portfolio Engineer will collaborate directly with utility planning organizations, project sponsors, engineering teams, project managers, operations, project controls, and other stakeholders to develop and maintain an integrated long-range capital portfolio.\nThe role will support transmission line, substation, network/telecommunications, and related infrastructure projects from early portfolio development through project initiation. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering foundation, an understanding of electric utility infrastructure, and the ability to translate technical needs and planning strategies into coordinated, executable capital investments.\nKey Responsibilities\nWork directly with utility planning organizations, portfolio engineers, project sponsors, project managers, and client leadership to develop and maintain the long-range transmission capital portfolio.\n\nSupport development and implementation of multi-year capital investment plans for transmission lines, substations, network/telecommunications systems, and related transmission infrastructure.\n\nCoordinate with project sponsors to understand proposed projects, planning strategies, need dates, business justification, scope, and investment requirements.\n\nEvaluate proposed projects for feasibility, timing, dependencies, budget requirements, constructability, and alignment with the overall transmission portfolio.\n\nIdentify opportunities to coordinate, bundle, sequence, or optimize projects to avoid duplicate scope and improve overall portfolio execution.\n\nSupport annual and long-range budget planning by working with utility stakeholders to determine appropriate project timing and investment years based on need, feasibility, funding, and execution considerations.\n\nReview proposed projects to confirm appropriate technical justification, scope definition, engineering information, and supporting documentation are available for portfolio decision-making.\n\nDevelop and support conceptual project scopes, preliminary schedules, estimates, and budget requirements in coordination with project sponsors and project managers.\n\nReview engineering estimates for accuracy, completeness, and alignment with proposed project scope.\n\nReview project change requests, including scope, schedule, in-service date, and other changes, and evaluate their impact on the existing and long-range portfolio.\n\nCoordinate with outage planning and other stakeholders to identify project dependencies, constructability considerations, outage conflicts, and sequencing requirements across the regional portfolio.\n\nSupport development and compilation of information required for regulatory, rate, and capital investment filings.\n\nCoordinate with accounting and financial stakeholders to support project setup, funding alignment, and other financial requirements.\n\nDevelop analyses, reports, portfolio summaries, and other materials to support capital planning, coordination, prioritization, and project execution.\n\nEstablish baseline scopes, schedules, and budgets for projects as they transition from portfolio planning into execution.\n\nAnalyze portfolio and project data to identify gaps, inconsistencies, risks, conflicts, and opportunities for improvement.\n\nSupport process improvements, templates, standards, tracking tools, and governance practices that improve consistency and efficiency across the transmission portfolio.\n\nProvide knowledge transfer and support to utility personnel as portfolio-planning processes, tools, and capabilities are implemented or improved.\n\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an ABET-accredited program.\n\n3+ years of relevant experience in electric utility engineering, transmission planning, project development, project management, capital planning, portfolio management, or a related technical environment.\n\nWorking knowledge of electric transmission infrastructure, including transmission lines, substations, and related utility systems.\n\nAbility to evaluate technical project information and translate engineering and planning needs into actionable project and portfolio requirements.\n\nStrong planning, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.\n\nHigh attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills with strong professional judgment and stakeholder-management capabilities.\n\nAbility to coordinate effectively across engineering, planning, project management, project controls, finance, operations, and other utility organizations.\n\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a client-facing environment.\n\nProficiency with Microsoft Excel and other standard business and project-management applications.\n\nAbility to travel approximately 10-20%, depending on project assignment and client needs.\n\nPreferred Experience\nExperience supporting electric transmission planning, engineering, project development, or capital programs.\n\nExperience with transmission lines, substations, network/telecommunications infrastructure, asset replacement, system upgrades, reliability investments, or other transmission capital projects.\n\nExperience developing or supporting multi-year utility capital plans or integrated project portfolios.\n\nExperience with project scoping, conceptual 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Strong compensation, full benefits, 401(k) match, and meaningful work.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity\nCARIAN is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire and develop talent based on qualifications, performance, and business needs. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. 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