Project Manager, Grid Planning
Kevala is seeking a Project Manager, Grid Planning, to join our Professional and Advisory Services (PAS) team. The ideal candidate should be passionate about integrated grid planning and decarbonizing the grid while bringing strong technical knowledge, client engagement experience, and project execution capabilities in areas such as grid planning or forecasting frameworks.
We are looking for a thoughtful, analytical and pragmatic individual who will fit with our rebellious culture. Direct energy industry experience, gathered through a combination of roles at a national lab or research organization, utility company(ies), energy service providers, and/or energy consultancies is critical in this role. The successful candidate should be an engineer capable of explaining and planning complex and technical grid planning work (e.g., distribution and transmission grid modeling, hosting capacity analysis, DER interconnection, grid infrastructure upgrades design, and/or non-wires alternatives) to both technical and non- technical client audiences and other users of Kevala’s analytics platform.
What you will be doing
Grid Planning Delivery
- Support the client delivery of Kevala’s methodologies and capabilities related to
integrated grid planning processes and analytics across utility transmission,
subtransmission, distribution, generation and load management functions. - Foster partnerships with clients through thoughtful client engagement,
demonstrated industry experience, and the ability to deliver work product on-time
and on-budget. - Partner internally with Kevala’s Platform, Product, and Analytics teams to refine
and deliver cutting edge grid planning analytics tailored to client-specific
requirements.
Strategy & Market Engagement
- Contribute to internal strategic product roadmap development and external client
deployment of the Kevala platform. - Act as technical steward of the end-to-end project delivery process, in
collaboration with the executive, product, analytics and platform teams, to
provide power systems subject matter expertise in how client-specific integrated
grid planning analytics and solutions are designed and delivered. - Support business development through meaningful customer engagement and
translating client needs into internal development requirements and deliverables.
What you need to succeed
- 3-6 years of related experience that includes familiarity with distribution planning, operations, and/or interconnection of behind-the-meter distributed energy resource technologies and approaches, which includes: Industry standards such as IEEE 1547 and other grid operating standards; Distribution planning analyses including capacity planning, contingency analysis, and non-wires alternative studies; Operations and protection schemes as related to distribution planning.
- Electrical Engineering degree, Power Systems, or related.
- Knowledgeable about energy resources including how to model and integrate varying types of (for example): Generation including solar and battery inverters and traditional generators; Load that includes electrical vehicle (EV) chargers and/or building electrification; Distribution grid equipment.
- Experience with grid modeling tools such as Cyme, DEW, GridLab-D, and/or Open DSS.
- Knowledgeable about AMI and SCADA and common information models to represent this data.
- Demonstrated exposure across the areas of power systems engineering and transmission and/or distribution grid planning (including Distributed Energy Resources).
- Demonstrated exposure across the areas of power systems engineering and transmission and/or distribution grid planning (including Distributed Energy Resources).
- Technical contribution to, and/or Contributing Researcher experience with power systems engineering analyses, research, or utility planning projects.
- Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills to audiences of varied technical backgrounds.
What will make you stand out
- Advanced degree in a relevant course of study.
- Experience interacting with software development, engineering, and data science teams.
- Direct work experience supporting service-based solutions and integration into highly secure client-based and cloud environments.
$114,000 to $140,000
This is a fully remote role which can be located anywhere within the United States. Please note, actual salaries may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, education, experience, and location.