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Introduction: Are you passionate about enhancing power distribution systems and shaping the future of energy? Join our Distribution Planning team, where you'll play a pivotal role in upgrading, maintaining, and automating power distribution systems. Collaborate with diverse teams and bring your expertise to solve complex challenges in the energy sector.

This position offers remote, hybrid, and in-office options depending on location.

As a Distribution Planning Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of upgrading, expanding, improving, maintaining, and automating power distribution systems. You'll perform essential protection and coordination studies, identify and solve issues involving substations and multiple feeders, and conduct scenario-based planning studies to recommend effective solutions.

Developing medium- and long-range distribution plans focusing on load relief, capacity, and reliability will be a key part of your role. You'll create and maintain computer models and their underlying databases for electric distribution systems, and conduct load forecasts, including DER, energy storage, and emerging electrification-related loads. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams, such as transmission, substation, and distribution design teams as well as the SCADA Automation team, to ensure seamless integration and efficiency. Lastly, you'll work independently while also coaching and mentoring less experienced engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.

• A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages
• Opportunities for professional growth and career
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and flexible work schedules.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related
• 2+ years of experience in electric utility
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: CYME Dist, CYMTCC, Synergi, Milsoft Windmil or ASPEN One-
• Experience with grid planning challenges such as protection and control, wildfire mitigation, FLISR, DER, system impact studies, sectionalizing studies, arc flash analysis, energy storage, etc..
• Ability to travel up to 10% as required to support clients and

• EIT/FE and PE highly
• Knowledge of software automation and
• Basics and fundamentals of Protective Device Coordination and TCC review.
• Knowledge of Arc Flash analysis and relevant Standards such as IEEE 1584, OSHA 1910.269 App E, NFPA 70E
• Proficiency in developing data analysis tools within Excel, Python or Major data analysis environments.

Not quite right for you? For a full listing of all our openings, please visit us at: https://entrustsol.com/careers/

ENTRUST Solutions Group, an ENR Top 100 company, is a community of people, 3,000+ strong, who are committed to our clients and each other. We provide comprehensive and dependable engineering, consulting, and automation services to gas and electric utilities, telecommunication service providers, pipeline operators, and industrial companies.

• Generous paid time off and benefits
• 401(k) retirement program with a company match
• Career development programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work schedule

This role is designated as remote, giving you the flexibility to primarily work from home while staying actively connected to your team and projects. We value collaboration and responsiveness, so we ask our remote team members to be available when in-office presence is needed—such as for client meetings, team events, or training sessions. Our approach blends freedom with shared accountability, making ENTRUST an exciting and supportive environment for professionals who thrive in remote work settings with clear, respectful expectations.

To learn more about ENTRUST Benefits and Culture, please visit our company LinkedIn page and follow us at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/entrustsolutionsgroup

ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. ENTRUST Solutions Group does not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with ENTRUST Solutions Group.

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