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Senior Engineer - System Modelling & Planning Support
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds A03
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 109,700.00 - 138,700.00
Position Highlights
The successful candidate will join the System Modelling & Planning Support (SM&PS) group (within Transmission Asset
Planning) as a Senior Engineer.
The core function of the SM&PS group is:
- To implement the data models to support the transmission planning processes in BC Hydro (growth capital planning,
interconnection planning, transmission operation services, network integration transmission services and integrated
resource planning)
- To address compliance with WECC and NERC MRS requirements concerning data models for transmission planning and
reliability assessment.
- To maintain and sustain in-house software tools used to support the transmission planning processes within BC Hydro in
addition to wider user groups where applicable.
What you'll do
- Provide subject-matter-expertise in power system modelling by conducting data modelling, review, validation, and quality
assurance in the data models of transmission circuits, station equipment and generation facilities. This also includes
implementation of load forecasts, base resource plans, interconnection queue, as-built data for capital and sustain projects,
external system models, system operating order updates, etc.
- Provide work experience, leadership and technical direction to engineers and technical staff in setting up, testing, tuning,
benchmarking, and building steady state and dynamic models (base cases). This includes knowledge transfer and training
on analytical methods and techniques implemented in specialized power systems application software used for the
planning, design, and operation of electrical power systems.
- Provide work experience, leadership and technical direction to engineers and technical staff in sustaining and maintaining
existing software used to support various transmission planning needs and business groups. Examples of such software
include those to provide others access to equipment data and project planning scopes.
- Ensure on-going compliance and awareness with NERC MRS standards applicable to steady-state and dynamic data
models used for transmission planning (e.g. MOD-010, MOD-012, MOD-025, MOD-026, MOD-027, MOD-031, MOD-032
and MOD-033, and TPL-001-4 standards
- Respond to WECC data requests (power flow and dynamic base cases, generating unit model validation, Remedial Action
Schemes in standardized WECC format, Composite Load Model, Relay Models, Sequence Data, Load & Resource
Information, Geomagnetic Induced Current data). This includes interaction and coordination with other utilities such as:
FBC, AESO, and BPA.
- Active participation representing BC Hydro in relevant working groups of the Data and Model Subcommittees under
