Principal Power Systems Engineer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

• Train, develop, and lead in daily operations and activities of the Power Systems engineering team.
• Design, integrate, test, and commission advanced control systems for electric utilities.
• Evaluate contract specifications and define project requirements.
• Communicate detailed requirements to internal departments as needed.
• Work directly with customers and remote engineering team members to understand requirements and communicate project plans.
• Perform customer training and consult on power system modeling to ensure the effective use and maintenance of a customer's power system applications.
• Assist in creating project and product documentation as needed.
• Perform unit testing and tuning to ensure power system applications will meet customer and industry requirements.
• Support live customer systems using knowledge of power systems and DGM application functionality with clear, logical thought processes.
• Assist in creating training materials and project documentation as needed.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry standards and trends.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Systems Engineering or related technical field. Master's degree with an emphasis in Power Systems preferred.
• 8+ years of power systems, project engineering, or related technical project implementation experience required.
• Ability and flexibility to travel up to 25% to domestic and international customer sites.
• Strong technical background with the ability to apply knowledge spanning renewable and integration of renewable into the electric grid solutions required.
• Practical understanding of DERs and integration DERs back to grid, including operation, control, and optimization.
• Understanding/knowledge of IEEE1547 and other DER standards and protocols: example: OpenADR, IEEE2030.5
• Knowledge of Virtual Power Plants, DER aggregations.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; organizational, interpersonal and leadership skills; analytical and problem-solving skills; commitment to providing superior customer service; and ability to multi-task on several projects in a fast-paced environment are required.

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