Job Summary

Dominion Energy’s System Operations Center (SOC) Engineering department is seeking a motivated individual to support the Company’s evolving transmission grid and assist with the industry leading projects we have in progress.

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The System Operations Engineering team supports our System Operators by maintaining and updating our Energy Management System (EMS). The is a complex software system that receives hundreds of thousands of measurements from substations within our territory and neighboring utilities, makes them available to the System Operators in a variety of views, and performs complex calculations on this data for many different purposes, such as ‘what-if’ scenarios (known as Contingency Analysis). Our team is also in the midst of a multi-year project, partnering with a vendor, to build a state-of-the-art synchrophasor-based EMS, utilizing synchrophasor data updating at 30 times per second.

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Interns will work with experienced team members to assist with projects that bridge our System Operations Engineering and EMS IT teams, learning about how a System Operations Center functions, the technology and system architecture of an EMS, and how to be effective as a professional engineer within a large corporation.

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Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

Required:

• Enrollment in a Bachelor’s degree program.
• Basic understanding of Electricity and Power Systems.
• Equally effective working independently or in a team environment.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Time management skills with the ability to independently plan and organize work assignments.
• Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.

Higher priority will be given to candidates with:

• Prior experience with Power Utilities.
• Strong software development skills, particularly in Python, JavaScript, C#, and/or Perl.

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Education Requirements

• Must be pursuing a bachelor’s degree in an engineering field (preferred fields include Electrical Engineering with a concentration in power systems or Computer Engineering) from an ABET accredited Engineering program at a four year or post-graduate college or university.
• Must have a 2.5 cumulative GPA or higher.

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