Senior High Voltage Development Engineer

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AES Clean Energy is seeking a Senior High Voltage Development Engineer to join our High Voltage Development Engineering team supporting the West region including Hawaii. This role focuses on the development of High Voltage Facilities substations and generation-tie lines for PV BESS and Wind projects. You will be part of a core group of resourceful regionally dedicated engineers driving innovation across large-scale renewable energy programs.

The High Voltage Development team leads due diligence and design throughout all stages of project development early concept through late-stage refinement delivering execution-ready facilities that are safe de-risked technically compliant and commercially viable.

The Senior High Voltage Development Engineer will support the development of 35 kV to 500 kV substation and transmission facilities across greenfield brownfield and M&A project pipelines. They will collaborate closely with diverse internal stakeholders (technical teams commercial estimating land and others) and manage external engineering consultants utility partners and ISOs.

The ideal candidate is:

• Proactive and communicative able to coordinate effectively across disciplines.
• Organized and technically strong with the ability to operate in evolving or ambiguous technical landscapes.
• Skilled at prioritizing competing tasks and providing sound technical judgment across substation gentie power system and interconnection engineering.
• Comfortable building and maintaining relationships with internal teams external consultants utilities and other partners.

This position is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who not only excels in technical high-voltage engineering but also values building relationships and partners across disciplines to deliver highquality renewable energy facilities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead earlystage and conceptual preconstruction engineering for highvoltage collector substations and generation tielines (35 kV500 kV) across Solar Wind and BESS projects including derisking activities and feasibility assessments.
• Collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams real estate permitting interconnection commercial PV/BESS/Wind engineering preconstruction construction commissioning and O&M to deliver safe compliant and technically sound project designs.
• Interpret and synthesize complex technical inputs from interconnection studies ISO/utility requirements commercial constraints and projectspecific needs to develop wellinformed conceptual designs inhouse.
• Develop scopes of work and manage external consultants producing 30% design packages ensuring alignment with AES engineering standards ISO/utility requirements PPA specifications and project objectives.
• Lead multidisciplinary design reviews and guide consultants in resolving advanced challenges related to power flow protection and control metering and physical substation or transmission design.
• Support highvoltage cost estimating for greenfield brownfield and M&A projects including BOM creation risk identification and valueengineering opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with specialized highvoltage consulting firms internal stakeholders and technical partners to ensure highquality engineering outcomes.
• Coordinate directly with Western interconnection providers and utilities to develop collector substation designs and incorporate requirements for new switchyards and transmission provider infrastructure.
• Develop contractual exhibits technical specifications and bid packages to support EPC procurement and execution.
• Evaluate highvoltage EPC bid designs for compliance with interconnection agreements applicable reliability standards and AES engineering criteria identifying gaps and recommending corrective actions.
• Ensure smooth project handoff to the High Voltage Execution Engineer transferring technical knowledge and design intent to position execution teams for success.
• Contribute to team growth and leadership supporting continuous improvement and mentoring junior engineers as opportunities arise.
• Conduct site visits for interconnection evaluations gentie routing and other field needs with travel approximately 25%.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.S. Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Power Systems.
• 7 years of High Voltage design experience (physical P&C gen-ties studies or a combination)
• Strong understanding of project management best practices.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to lead technical discussions among EORs EPCs utilities ISOs and internal teams.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects.
• Ability to bridge technical and nontechnical perspectives in a fastpaced environment.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.
• PMP Certificate
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or similar design tools.
• Experience with ETAP or comparable power system modeling software.
• Knowledge of relay and SCADA controls and system architecture.
• Experience with PLSCADD.
• Demonstrated microgrid or advanced power systems experience.
• Experience training and mentoring junior engineers.

Location: Possibility of flexible work anywhere in the US .

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The expected salary for this position at commencement of employment is between $113000 and $141525/Annual; however base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including market location job-related knowledge skills and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements such as annual bonus in addition to a full range of medical dental vision life financial and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as vacation sick time and parental leave) dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if a candidate receives an offer of employment. If hired employee will be in an at-will position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time including for reasons related to individual performance Company or individual department/team performance and market factors.