Senior High Voltage & Electrical Subject Matter Expert

Your Opportunity

Help shape the future of energy. Capital Power is seeking a senior electrical engineering specialist to provide technical leadership across high-voltage and generation equipment while guiding the interconnection and transmission work needed to develop, operate, enhance, and uprate generation assets.

This role is a trusted technical advisor to operations, maintenance, development, capital projects, commercial, regulatory, and leadership teams. You will connect plant-level electrical engineering with grid-level requirements, translating complex technical issues into practical recommendations that support safety, reliability, cost, schedule, compliance, and business risk objectives.

You'll Contribute to Our Team By

• Serve as the senior technical authority for high-voltage electrical systems and generation equipment, providing support for generators, transformers, switchgear, protection and control systems, grounding, and auxiliary electrical systems.
• Lead resolution of operational issues, forced outages, and equipment failures, including root-cause investigations and recommendations for inspection, repair, refurbishment, replacement, and life-extension strategies.
• Provide technical leadership for major maintenance, outages, commissioning, and projects, while reviewing designs, specifications, test plans, and maintaining fleet engineering standards and asset strategies.

• Evaluate transmission and interconnection options, recommending solutions that balance cost, schedule, reliability, operability, and risk.
• Lead interconnection applications, studies, and technical workstreams through assessment, approval, implementation, and compliance, including review of power system, protection, grounding, and reliability studies.
• Serve as the primary technical interface with utilities, transmission owners, ISOs/RTOs, consultants, and OEMs, providing input on agreements, system constraints, upgrade requirements, and evolving regulatory and market requirements.

• Coordinate electrical and interconnection activities across engineering, development, construction, commercial, regulatory, operations, and maintenance teams.
• Identify and assess technical, contractual, regulatory, reliability, and system-access risks and opportunities, providing decision-ready recommendations to project teams and leadership.
• Support capital projects, acquisitions, divestitures, and development opportunities through technical due diligence, risk optimization, compliance oversight, and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What You Will Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Professional Engineer registration, or eligibility to obtain registration in the applicable jurisdiction, is preferred.
• Equivalent relevant and transferable technical expertise in high-voltage, generation, and power-system engineering may be considered.

• Minimum eight years of progressively responsible experience in high-voltage electrical systems, power generation, transmission planning, generation interconnections, power-system studies, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience supporting operating generation assets, outages, commissioning, equipment investigations, or major capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating complex electrical or interconnection studies from initial assessment through approval and implementation.
• Experience evaluating equipment and system constraints, project costs, schedules, technical risks, and practical mitigation options.
• Experience communicating complex technical issues and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating with utilities, system operators, consultants, equipment suppliers, and multidisciplinary internal teams.

• Strong knowledge of large generators, excitation systems, power transformers, medium- and high-voltage switchgear, breakers, protection and control, grounding, and auxiliary electrical systems.
• Advanced understanding of power-system analysis, including load flow, short circuit, protection coordination, transient stability, electromagnetic transients, reliability, arc flash, and grounding studies.
• Experience with power-system analysis tools such as ETAP, SKM PowerTools, PSCAD, PSS/E, PSLF, PowerWorld, CYME, or equivalent. Direct hands-on modelling capability in every platform is not required, but the ability to define, direct, and critically review study work is essential.
• Strong working knowledge of applicable IEEE, IEC, ANSI, NEC, NESC, NERC, FERC, ISO/RTO, utility, and jurisdictional requirements.
• Ability to integrate plant equipment limitations with transmission-system requirements and develop practical technical solutions.
• Strong technical writing, facilitation, judgment, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Working knowledge of electrical safety, arc-flash hazard management, and energized-work practices.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid office position based in Washington, DC. Other U.S. locations may be considered based on business needs and candidate qualifications.
• Up to 30% travel across North America to support operating assets, outages, project activities, utility and system-operator engagements, and field investigations.
• Periodic support outside normal business hours may be required during forced outages, significant equipment events, commissioning, or critical project milestones.

Additional Details

The pay range for this position is $120,000- $160,000 USD. Other details of the position are:

• This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
• The successful candidate must be legally eligible to work in the United States of America.
• The successful candidate will undergo education verification, reference checks, and a criminal record check.
• As this is a safety-sensitive position, clearance of a pre-employment drug test is required.
• This position is eligible for health-care benefits, retirement benefits, paid time off, and an annual performance-based bonus.
• Depending on the posting requirements, relocation assistance may be available.

We believe that a culture supporting employee physical, mental, financial, and social wellbeing is critical to our success. Capital Power provides comprehensive onboarding, training, and programs that support career development and long-term growth.

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