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Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.</p><p><br><strong>About the Opportunity</strong><br>&nbsp;</p><p>The Transmission Planning Engineer position is responsible for transmission planning functions across FirstEnergy's transmission and subtransmission systems in the FirstEnergy area.&nbsp; The primary focus is on studying and planning the safe and reliable operation of transmission and subtransmission lines and substations.&nbsp; In addition, the position is responsible for performing studies related to generation and load interconnections attaching to the system within the assigned planning areas.&nbsp; The engineer will perform transmission planning activities with input from the operating companies, other utilities, generator owners, the Regional Transmission Organization, and Regional Reliability Organizations.&nbsp; The position has the responsibility to initiate, recommend, and assist in the development of the capital portfolio for reliability related projects within the planning area of responsibility.&nbsp; The position works closely with the Operations Center to provide support during storms, heavy loading periods, and abnormal system events.</p><p><strong>Responsibilities Include:</strong></p><ul><li>Providing technical support and studies to develop transmission and subtransmission infrastructure projects, plans, and capital budgets to maintain the reliability and integrity of the FE system.</li><li>Performing timely completion of bulk and area transmission systems studies ensuring compliance with NERC, PJM and FE planning criteria.</li><li>Proposing and economically justifying recommended mitigation projects to any planning criteria deficiencies identified through system studies. &nbsp;If capital projects cannot be implemented in the needed timeframe, a detailed operating solution is prepared and presented to Operations for review and implementation.</li><li>Performing development of annual capital budgets by requesting cost estimates and preparing presentations associated with the capital portfolio process.</li><li>Performing studies associated with the connection of new loads, generators and merchant transmission projects.</li><li>Providing support to the Operations Centers when required, such as during severe weather, heavy loading or abnormal system events. &nbsp;Frequently this support requires rapid turn-around of an evaluation of whether the system can accommodate an outage and remain in a secure condition should the next contingency occur. &nbsp;It could also involve operational recommendations to alleviate abnormal system conditions, abnormal voltages, or equipment overloads.</li><li>Working with various industry groups to meet requirements / obligations that FE has within the industry, and actively promote FE ideas / methods / procedures that the industry should be using as it moves forward.&nbsp; Formal industry groups include NERC, RFC and PJM.</li><li>Preparing responses to state and federal commission requests for information</li><li>Providing technical testimony for regulatory and legal inquiries as assigned</li><li>Supporting efforts to prepare submittals for compliance related to various planning related activities.</li><li>Participating in the annual maintenance of the department’s planning philosophy, facility connection document, and other procedures and documents.</li><li>Preparing work products to meet requirements of various governmental agencies, such as public utility commissions, other state agencies, FERC, and other federal agencies, by providing input to filings as required.</li><li>May be required to travel throughout the FE system and to other industry related activities.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Engineer II Qualifications include:</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical from an ABET accredited institution is required. Acceptable alternatives are: (1) a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License (2) a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from an ABET accredited institution&nbsp;(3) a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering or technical field of study (non-ABET) plus an advanced degree in Electrical from a university with an ABET accredited Bachelor’s program. .</li><li>A&nbsp;Fundamentals&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering (FE)&nbsp;Certificate is&nbsp;preferred.</li><li>Minimum&nbsp;of&nbsp;2&nbsp;(two)&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;experience&nbsp;is&nbsp;required.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Engineer III Qualification Include:</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical from an ABET accredited institution is required. Acceptable alternatives are: (1) a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License (2) a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from an ABET accredited institution&nbsp;(3) a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering or technical field of study (non-ABET) plus an advanced degree in Electrical from a university with an ABET accredited Bachelor’s program.&nbsp;</li><li>A&nbsp;Fundamentals&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering (FE)&nbsp;Certificate is&nbsp;preferred.</li><li>Minimum&nbsp;of&nbsp;3 (three)&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;experience&nbsp;is&nbsp;required.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Engineer IV</strong> <strong>Qualifications include<u>:</u></strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical from an ABET accredited institution is required. Acceptable alternatives are: (1) a Professional Engineer’s (PE) License (2) a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from an ABET accredited institution&nbsp;(3) a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil or Mechanical Engineering or technical field of study (non-ABET) plus an advanced degree in Electrical from a university with an ABET accredited Bachelor’s program.&nbsp;</li><li>A&nbsp;Fundamentals&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering (FE)&nbsp;Certificate is&nbsp;preferred.</li><li>Minimum&nbsp;of&nbsp;5&nbsp;(five)&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;experience&nbsp;is&nbsp;required with a BS in Engineering or&nbsp;minimum&nbsp;of&nbsp;7&nbsp;(seven)&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;Engineering&nbsp;experience&nbsp;is&nbsp;required with a BS in Engineering Technology.</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The estimated pay range for this role is $78,000- $121,500. &nbsp;The pay range for certain locations, including the state of New Jersey, include a 20% differential to account for an increased cost of living, making the pay range $85,680 &nbsp;- $145,800</p><p>Benefits,&nbsp;Compensation&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Workforce&nbsp;Diversity</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At FirstEnergy, employees are key to&nbsp;our success.&nbsp;We depend on their talents to meet the challenges of our changing business environment. We are committed to&nbsp;rewarding individual and team efforts through our total rewards philosophy which includes competitive pay&nbsp;plus&nbsp;incentive compensation, a&nbsp;company-sponsored&nbsp;pension plan, 401(k) savings plan with matching employer contribution, a choice of&nbsp;medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and&nbsp;life&nbsp;insurance programs, as&nbsp;well&nbsp;as&nbsp;skills development training with&nbsp;tuition&nbsp;reimbursement.&nbsp;Please visit our website at&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.firstenergycorp.com</a>&nbsp;to&nbsp;learn more about all&nbsp;of our employee rewards programs. FirstEnergy proudly supports workforce diversity.&nbsp;All qualified applicants will&nbsp;receive consideration for employment without regard to&nbsp;race,&nbsp;religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as&nbsp;a protected veteran, or status as a&nbsp;qualified individual with a disability.&nbsp;No recruiters or agencies without a previously signed contract. 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