Engineer II - Regional Electric

Basic Purpose
Provides a wide variety of distribution engineering services and technical support encompassing service reliability, voltage levels, area capacity, and problem solving in the service area.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Ensures the integrity and ability to serve through the application of engineering expertise in the design and maintenance of distribution facilities in accordance with corporate guidelines, industry standards, current construction codes, government and environmental regulations and customer service requirements.

Provides engineering support for the Distribution Design process by reviewing and approving design drawings, providing technical design estimates and providing technical support for discovery process.

Investigates and resolves customer’s existing power quality problems including design and placement of customer equipment.

Builds and maintains superior contractor and customer relations.

Performs technical analyses and calculations to ensure distribution plans are technically feasible and consistent with corporate guidelines.

Works with customers, professional engineers, equipment vendors, and others to explain the company’s requirements as they pertain to distribution planning and resolution of resource requirement issues.

Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Performs related duties as assigned.

Essential Education, Skills, and Environment
Education and Work Experience
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school in engineering and 1-3 years of related experience.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills
Demonstrated knowledge of electrical engineering principles.

Equipment and Applications
PCs, word processing, spreadsheet and database software.

Work Environment and Physical Demands
General office environment. No special physical demands required.

Note: Immigration Sponsorship
At this time, we're not considering applicants that need any type of immigration sponsorship (additional work authorization or permanent work authorization) now or in the future to work in the United States. This includes, but is NOT LIMITED TO: F1-OPT, F1-CPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, J-1, etc. For more information regarding work visas, please visit www.uscis.gov.

NOTE: THE COMPANY MAY FILL THE POSITION(S) AT A LOWER LEVEL DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES

NV Energy is looking for qualified people to join us in one of the premier energy companies in the West. Located in the fastest growing state in the United States, NV Energy provides electricity to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada as well as a state tourist population exceeding 40 million annually. Among the many communities we serve are Las Vegas, Reno-Sparks, Henderson, Elko and South Lake Tahoe. We also provide natural gas to more than 155,000 citizens in the Reno-Sparks area.