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Project Associate, Combined Heat and Power, CSE, (San Diego, CA)

The Project Associate, CHP (PA-CHP) will report to the Pacific CHP TAP Project Manager and play a vital role in technical analyses, project implementation, reporting, invoicing and installation tracking in the region. The PA-CHP will also coordinate with other CSE project managers, administrative staff, industry stakeholders, and customers on marketing and outreach efforts in support of the Pacific CHP TAP.

For full job details, visit the Energy Center website.

Application Deadline: Monday, May 30
To Apply: Please send a resume and cover letter along with salary history via e-mail to human.resources@energycenter.org.

Retail Interconnections Engineer (Waltham, MA)

About the Position: 

National Grid is seeking an Engineer in our Retail Connections Engineering Group. This group is responsible for the retail connections engineering studies, installation acceptance review, and compliance verification of complex distributed generation (DG) facilities integrated to National Grid’s electric power system (EPS) from receipt of complete application to energization.

Position Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

Interconnection Engineering

  • Review/authorize screening reports/feasibility studies for potential impacts
  • Prepare/develop Planning Analytical Study Report of EPS impacts
  • Develop Planning Grade Cost Estimates of entire interconnection
  • Oversight of contractor resources performing interconnection studies
  • Coordinate quality control review of planning recommendations for studies with Retail Connections Engineering department
  • Prepare/develop/issue Interconnection Study Report and coordinate issue of same by contractor resources
  • Initiate project funding and project manager request for interconnection projects upon notice to proceed including those where studies are performed by contractor resources
  • Lead contact for technical matters on reviewing customer installation and ensure compliance verification for energization of customer installation with Retail Connections Engineering and Technical Sales & Engineering Support departments including those where studies are performed by contractor resources
  • Review Customer installation and ensure compliance verification for Energization
  • Report on project status

Protection Engineering

  • Prepare/develop protection study model
  • Analyze/recommend Protective Device Coordination and equipment interrupting ratings
  • Analyze grounding, anti-islanding, fault sensitivity, and transient conditions for recommendations
  • Prepare/develop Protection Analytical Study Report
  • Review Customer protection scheme and verify acceptable settings for Energization

Substation Engineering (Substation, Meter, C&I)

  • Analyze/recommend operating control and communications media requirements
  • Develop Planning Grade Cost Estimates of substation, metering, and telemetering impacts
  • Prepare/develop Substation, Control & Integration (C&I) Analytical Study Report
  • Prepare/develop Substation, Revenue Metering and Telemetering Study Report
  • Obtain quality control review of Study Reports from Substation Design and C&I Engineering departments and Meter Engineer
  • Review Customer service connection facilities, metering and telemetering scheme, and protection scheme witness test compliance for Energization

Other engineering key accountabilities –

  • Provide technical consultation for simplified DG projects and those online
  • Monitor state jurisdictional regulatory action related to tariff compliance
  • Maintain technical guidance documents
  • Provide technical outreach
  • Participate in industry codes and standards
  • Report on project status and metrics

Qualifications

 Knowledge & Experience Required:

  • Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Science Degree earned from an ABET accredited school with up to 2 years of related experience in an entry-level position, or equivalent work experience.
  • Working towards/holder of the Registered Professional Engineering License.
  • Knowledge of National Grid’s business operations, company policies and practices.
  • Knowledge and experience in an electrical engineering environment, preferably a utility.
  • Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work in a matrix management environment.
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding of substation design, controls & integration schemes, and metering schemes.
  • Ability to perform Conceptual Engineering Analysis and Cost Estimating.
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding of Distribution Protection Schemes.
  • Ability to perform Distribution Load Flow Analysis.
  • Ability to perform Protection Coordination Circuit Analysis.
  • Understanding of generator connections and parallel operation with other electric sources.
  • Ability to travel overnight outside of the normal work area as needed.
  • Ability to work overtime including nights/weekends and/or holidays as required.
  • Must have a valid driver’s license with safe driving history.

 Capability Requirements:

  • Understanding Others: Understands what someone is saying or feeling, even if person is not very clear, and can accurately predict how someone will respond.
  • Impact and Influence: Adapts approach and considers what is important to the audience, e.g. an engineering customer, by tailoring message accordingly.
  • Leveraging Networks: Actively builds and maintains a network of relationships, outside normal business contacts.
  • Customer Orientation: Takes personal responsibility for correcting problems promptly and undefensively and communicates engineering customer expectations to monitor delivery of engineering projects and satisfaction.
  • Drive for Results: Proactively makes changes to improve performance, efficiency and effectiveness of processes, for example challenge existing engineering procedures and highlight areas for improvement.

This position has a career path which provides for promotional opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills.

The selected candidate will move laterally at their current band and market reference point and will not be eligible for a promotion at the time of accepting this position.  This applies to candidates moving within the same career path (e.g., analyst, supervisor, engineer), or to a different career path (e.g., analyst to engineer, supervisor to analyst).  The selected candidate will have an opportunity to be promoted within the career path during the annual salary planning process.

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Lunch and Learn Recap: Elena Naumova, Environmental Indicators of Enteric Infections and Water Safety in Southern India

Elena Naumova, director of the Tufts Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious Diseases (InForMid) and Associate Dean for Research at the Tufts School of Engineering, spoke last week as part of the Tufts Environmental Studies and Tufts Institute of the Environment Lunch and Learn program. Her presentation on the Environmental Indicators of Enteric Infections and Water Safety in Southern India covered student research projects sponsored through a collaboration between the Tufts School of Engineering and Christian Medical College in Vellore, India.

 A mathematician by training, Naumova emphasized the importance of translating data into usable information that allows for action and policy.

Naumova began by laying out the importance of preventing waterborne diseases. Globally, there are 4 billion cases of diarrhea annually, 2.2 million of which lead to death. Of those 2.2 million, 80% of the deaths are among infants. Unsafe water is a large factor in these diseases.

Modern mathematical tools allow for an understanding of waterborne outbreaks in “temporal and spatial patterns”, Naumova said. “Practically all waterborne diseases exhibit strong seasonal patterns distinct for a specific pathogen in a given population [and] locality”, in a phenomenon known

as seasonality. An example familiar to New England residents, of course, would be the peaks of flu that occur in the winter. “Variability in seasonal characteristics can provide clues on important factors influencing disease occurrence, exposure, [and] spread.” These environmental factors, when they are within human control, could be a key to disease prevention. Climate change, however, will affect our ability to use these seasonal indicators as the patterns we have come to recognize begin to shift radically.

Naumova further presented statistics on the seasonality of cryptosporidiosis in the United States and the United Kingdom, salmonellosis in the United Status, and rotavirus in India.

She then laid out two studies conducted by some of her students, Dr. Stefan Collinet-Adler, Andrea Brown, Alexandra Kulinkina, and Negin Ashoori. Both studies examined the transmission of infectious diarrhea in 300 urban and rural households in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, India. The first study focused on the role of flies, which can carry pathogens such as norovirus, salmonella, and rotavirus. In the tests conducted, 72% of the flies tested positive for potential human pathogens. The second study used GIS to map ground water quality and distribution systems in Vellore.

Naumova here noted the importance of recognizing the difference between water quality and quantity: the focus of these studies was on quality, for lack of water leads to other severe problems but obviously cannot cause waterborne diseases.

Elena said she is always looking for students who are interested in going abroad and conducting research and will do whatever she can to make that possible!