Power Quality Engineer
FirstEnergy
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- Location
- Akron, OH
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 21
- 2 days ago
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FirstEnergy
Utilities · 10,001+ employees
What you'll do
- Coordinating power quality investigations, mitigation efforts, and corrective actions with internal stakeholders, customers, consultants, equipment manufacturers, and regulatory organizations.
- Performing engineering studies and analyses to identify, evaluate, and resolve transmission system power quality issues, customer complaints, system disturbances, and emerging power quality concerns including voltage flicker, harmonics, voltage unbalance, oscillations, sags, swells, transients, and interruptions.
- Developing and maintaining power quality procedures, standards, and practices while ensuring compliance with applicable IEEE, NERC, FERC, PJM, and state regulatory requirements.
- Providing technical leadership for the deployment, configuration, testing, commissioning, and maintenance of power quality monitoring systems and associated infrastructure.
- Analyzing data from power quality monitors, synchrophasor (PMU) systems, digital fault recorders, and other utility data sources to identify trends, quantify system performance, and support root-cause investigations.
- Serving as the company's subject matter expert on power quality standards, monitoring methodologies, and system performance assessments while maintaining active engagement with industry organizations, standards committees, utilities, and customers.
- Reviewing transmission interconnections, customer load additions, generation projects, transmission project scopes, and system modifications to evaluate potential power quality impacts and recommend mitigation solutions where necessary.
- Preparing technical reports, engineering studies, presentations, customer communications, and mitigation recommendations.
- Meeting customer needs by providing professional, timely, and technically sound support.
- Demonstrating a solid commitment to all aspects of safety.
- Experience with SynchroPhasor applications, oscillation analysis, and wide-area monitoring systems (WAMS) is a plus.
- Experience evaluating customer, generation, inverter-based resource (IBR), or large load interconnections is a plus.
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The engineer position will be part of the Transmission Operations organization, supporting FirstEnergy's transmission system through the analysis, monitoring, and mitigation of power quality performance. The position is responsible for analyzing, monitoring, and developing mitigation strategies for voltage quality, harmonics, flicker, transients, oscillations, and other power quality phenomena impacting customers, transmission operations, and grid reliability. The group serves as the company's technical lead for power quality practices, standards, monitoring technology, and customer support activities across all FirstEnergy operating companies.