Data Engineer - Distribution Planning

As a Data Engineer specializing in Distribution Planning at an electrical utility company, you will design, develop, and maintain the data infrastructure and systems required for efficient and effective distribution planning operations. The Data Engineer will work to enhance modeling, analytics, visualization, and automation processes to further augment the department's abilities to plan and execute an affordable, reliable, and environmentally sensitive distribution grid.

1. Support distribution system analysis to ensure economical and reliable service for OPPD¿s customers.

2. Define, develop, and optimize techniques to gather, transform, analyze, and visualize data using automation and streamlined data pipelines.

• Work with large and complex data sets to derive useable insights.
• Improve the distribution system model through automation and enhanced data sets.
• Capture and combine an assortment of data from a variety of sources and identify new or experimental frameworks to collect or extrapolate absent data.
• Help build creative visualizations that effectively communicate detailed insights and results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work to automate manual tasks to allow time and focus on higher-value work.
• Determine new analytical methods for representing the distribution system.

3. Support the study of and build trends for emerging topics in the electric utility space including distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI).

4. Support the creation of an integrated system planning model that balances generation, transmission, and distribution needs.

Required:

• Four (4) year bachelor¿s degree in a science, engineering, mathematics, or related major
• Experience in data analytics or data engineering related to technical topics.
• Mastery of common data management tools and SQL
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Familiarity with R, Python, or similar programming languages

Desired:

• Expertise in Tableau or related data visualization software.
• Previous experience with industry-standard power system analysis software.
• Experience with Geographic Information Systems.
• Experience related to the electric utility industry and knowledge of power delivery systems and infrastructure.

Computer science or mathematics experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, and other advanced techniques.

Salary: Min: $91,371 - Mid: $114,214.

EOE: Protected Veterans/Disability

Apply online at www.oppd.com on July 12th or before August 10th.

Recruiter: Angie Case -acase@oppd.com #LI-AC

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