Intern (Electric Transmission) SHPE National Convention

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Job Summary

At Dominion Energy we love our jobs. That’s right. Love. Every day we go to work filled with passion to be excellent, to creatively problem solve and to innovate. These are exciting days for energy companies, and Dominion Energy aims to shape the future of energy in America. We are looking at all of our work with fresh eyes, retooling everything we do, in every part of the company, to operate more sustainably and to deliver energy more reliably than ever. We are looking for interesting, independent thinkers and doers who can help shape the culture of a forward-looking company that’s proud of its rich legacy. Are you a change agent? Do you think differently? Do you want to fall in love with your job? If you answered “yes,” then read on!

Job Summary

This job posting is a part of the 2024 SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) National Convention. Interviews will be conducted in-person at the conference in Anaheim, CA starting October 31st – November 2nd.

The Difference You Will Make:

Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) departments are seeking motivated, engaged engineers to fill several vacancies within the organization. Electric Transmission is the organization responsible for the long-term planning, engineering, construction, and operations of the high voltage electric grid system operated from 69kV to 500kV. The grid is accountable for transmitting electricity from state of the art solar and wind facilities, integrating those technologies into the energy portfolio, and delivering the power to our many 2.7 million customers including the world's largest cluster of internet data centers. This is an exciting time to join our team as we are involved in industry-leading projects and initiatives such as interconnecting 5000 MW of solar generation in the next 5 years, the first utility-owned offshore wind project in United States federal waters off the Atlantic coast, virtual digital protection conversions, and the largest data center load growth in the world all as part of our plan to achieve net zero carbon emission goal by 2050.

Electric Transmission is currently hiring. The departments involved will include, but are not limited to, the following groups:

Standards

• System Protection Standards : Develop, maintain, and support system-wide standards for transmission and distribution system protection, communications, metering, and control application. Provide expert technical support to other groups for the development and application of protection and control standard designs. The System Protection Standards team also evaluates and recommends new products, applications, and methods to maintain or improve safety, reliability, and efficiency.

• Transmission Engineering Standards: Develop engineering standard drawings and design requirements for transmission lines. Transmission lines equipment includes towers, engineered poles, conductor and static assemblies, and conductor. Transmission Engineering Standards team is also responsible for developing training for design engineers, equipment vendor selection, and engaging with industry forums and events (IEEE, SEE, CIGRE, EPRI, etc).

• Substation Engineering Standards: Develop engineering standard drawings and design requirements for substation equipment – substation equipment includes circuit breakers, instrument transformers, larger power transformers, and miscellaneous yard cabinets components. The Substation Engineering Standards team is also responsible for developing training for design engineers, standard material vendor selection and engaging with industry in forums, and events (IEEE, SEE, CIGRE, EPRI, etc.)

Job Summary Cont.

Transmission Line Design – Provide detailed analysis and evaluation of high voltage electric transmission line facilities including conductor, hardware, insulators, and structures. Develop detailed designs, material requirements and construction specifications for new projects and modifications to existing facilities.

* Operational Engineering Support*  – Responsible for ensuring compliance and maximizing reliability, and for providing operational support during planned and emergent activities. 

• Operational Support & Reliability: You will help to ensure asset management activities meet the requirements for maximization of reliability.  

• System Protection Automation & Analysis: Ensures electric grid reliability by analyzing system events 24/7 using a combination of technical skills including data processing, software development, and engineering principles. Our strategically deployed monitoring equipment and in-house diagnostic tools enable teams across Dominion Energy to expedite restoration of service, direct fact-finding investigations, and facilitate NERC compliance activities.

*ET Planning * – Responsible for short-term and long-term strategic planning initiatives. 

• Area Planning: You will assist with ensuring system adequacy in the next 5 years, as well as monitoring conditions developing within the next 15 years. You will learn how to run power flow studies and find solutions to reliability concerns. 

• System Modeling : You will carry out data mining and analytics on historical data to validate power system models and load forecasts. You should be comfortable with creating, maintaining, and using data/databases. 

• Strategic Studies: You will learn to perform stability, sensitivity analysis and power flow studies to ensure reliable operation and evaluate future load growth, generation retirements, and integration of renewable energy resources. 

• Planning & Strategic Initiatives: You will work within the PJM queue process, performing power flow and dynamic analysis to reliably inject new generation into our system. This team works closely with the CVOW and DER projects. 

Job Summary Cont.

*System Operations Center (SOC) * – Responsible for supporting DE’s evolving electric transmission grid. Operators at the SOC make real-time decisions that balance electricity supply and demand to keep the lights on. 

• EMS Modeling/Network Application: You will perform modeling for DE’s transmission system including network topology, equipment ratings and parameter impedances, and maintenance of operator displays. This team also develops tools to improve situational awareness in the operations control room. 

• Operations Planning Engineering: You will assist with transmission reliability studies within a 10-day window, performing N-1 contingency analysis, working on near- and long-term outage coordination, and supporting real-time operations.  

• SOC Services : You will support operations by providing continuous training to System Operators, maintaining the map board training simulator, ensuring NERC compliance, creating procedures, and developing a System Restoration Plan in the event of an eastern interconnect blackout. 

System Protection  – Responsible for the design, modeling, and development of protective relay applications. 

• System Protection Engineering : Responsible for the design, modeling, and development of protective relay applications for the grid and substations. If a problem occurs on a transmission line our engineers design protective elements to automatically sectionalize this line and only this line in less than 50 milli-seconds.

• Substation Protection & Control Design : Develop protection and control design engineering packages for ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Create and modify protection and control design documents and drawings for substation projects including relay functional drawings, logic diagrams, elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, communications diagrams, relay panel arrangement drawings, and bill of material.

• Substation Data Communications: Provide support to Substation upgrade projects, operational support to in service substation data communication equipment, and evaluation of emerging substation data communications technologies and equipment including Data Concentrators, I/O processors, and protocol converters. Provides SCADA programming.

Job Summary Cont.

Operations Engineering (EMS Modeling/Network Application)  – Perform the modeling of DE’s transmission system including network topology, equipment ratings and parameter impedances as well as the maintenance of various operator displays. Coordinate with, and provide technical assistance to, various engineering, operations, and field teams to fully maintain the EMS model. This team also supports the development of tools to improve situational awareness in the operations control room.

Conceptual Design (Substation Protection & Control, and Physical Design )  – Develop project scope of work, conceptual protection and control design and estimates for ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Create and modify protection and control design documents and drawings for substation projects including relay functional drawings, logic diagrams, elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, communications diagrams, relay panel arrangement drawings. Develop project estimates and make necessary updates to estimating database to improve accuracy and consistency. Facilitate smooth transition of the conceptual design to detail engineering/implementation team and represent the company at the state and county commissions applications/hearings and community open houses.

Substation Physical Design  – Develop physical design engineering packages for Dominion’s ET and Electric Distribution Substations. Performs and/or reviews engineering calculations, analysis, research, to complete the physical design of electrical substations for new construction and upgrades. This includes preparing and reviewing substation drawings to be issued for construction, typically including: one-line diagrams, substation general arrangements, elevations and details, conduit and foundation plans, cable schedules, ground grid plans, and bill of materials.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

Strong time management skills with the ability to independently plan and organize work assignments.

• Strong oral and written communication skills, including technical writing.

• Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.

• Basic knowledge of engineering concepts, fundamentals and theory;

• Equally effective with working independently or in a team environment.

• Knowledge of basic system protection practices and relays

• Ability to interpret codes, regulations, and practices.

Education Requirements

Graduate Intern - Education Requirements

• Must have earned a Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field and be accepted to and working on a Master’s or Ph.D. degree in engineering (preferred fields include electrical engineering with a concentration in power systems, computer engineering, or mechanical engineering with a focus on energy systems) from an ABET accredited Engineering program at a four year or post-graduate college or university.

• Candidates must have a 3.2 minimum GPA or greater

• Must have an anticipated graduation date of December 2024 or later

Intern - Education Requirements

• Required: Bachelor of Science in Engineering.

• Discipline: Civil Engineering (BSCE), Electrical engineering or Mechanical Engineering.

• Registered Professional Engineer OR Certified Engineer-In-Training is preferred.

Candidate must be a full-time student majoring in ABET accredited Electrical Engineering or related program with a graduation date of Winter 2025, Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Spring 2027, Winter 2027, Spring 2028, or Winter 2028

Must have a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher

Working Conditions

Energized Wires Up to 25%

Heat Up to 25%

Office Work Environment 76 -100%

Outdoors Up to 25%

Travel Up to 25%

Test Description

No Testing Required

Other Information

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their protected veteran or disabled status.

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Other Information

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Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their protected veteran or disabled status.

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