What The Role Is
Leads Clearway’s Power Systems Engineering (PSE) team, which owns the dynamic and electromagnetic transient (EMT) models, power systems studies, and technical NERC compliance support for a rapidly growing fleet of NERC-registered generating plants. The leader sets technical direction and priorities, delivers hands-on engineering work, and builds a team sized to a growing fleet and an evolving regulatory landscape. The role partners with Development, Construction, Asset Management, Operations, and Electrical Regulatory Compliance to ensure plants are modeled, studied, and accepted correctly from commissioning through operation.
Would consider a Senior Manager, depending on experience.
What You'll Be Doing
Team leadership and organization
- Lead, develop, and mentor the PSE team, including recruiting, onboarding, work assignment, performance management, and succession planning.
- Forecast workload and capacity against fleet growth, acquisitions, repowers, and new NERC obligations. Lead the annual PSE workload and staffing reassessment, including hiring triggers and sequencing.
- Manage contractor and third-party engineering resources, including scope, quality, cost, and deliverable acceptance.
Technical delivery and quality
- Provide technical leadership for dynamic modeling and EMT studies supporting MOD-025, MOD-026, MOD-032, PRC-024/PRC-029, and related standards. Personally contribute to complex studies and technical reviews.
- Direct plant trip and event analysis, root cause analysis, controls and protection review, and reliability and performance improvement.
- Oversee ETAP studies (short-circuit, protection coordination, load flow) and arc-flash analysis after equipment, settings, collection-system, repower, or acquisition changes.
- Direct technical investigations supporting regional entity requests for information (e.g., WECC, ERCOT), including PRC-028 and PRC-030 assessments.
- Assess new and revised NERC standards, particularly the shift of operational standards toward inverter-based resources (IBRs), and lead the resulting model, settings, and equipment changes across the fleet.
New construction, acquisitions, and commissioning
- Own PSE’s approach to new-construction modeling and studies, and recommend, project by project, whether work is performed in-house, direct-contracted to a third party, or split.
- Provide technical input to EPC contract language and scope definition so that Clearway can direct-contract modeling and study deliverables for eligible projects.
- Plan PSE field presence at commissioning, technical acceptance, and acquisition diligence and closeout. Define acceptance criteria and hold points, and ensure discrepancies between field configuration, models, settings, and test results are tracked to closure.
Cross-functional partnership
- Serve as technical liaison to Electrical Regulatory Compliance and the NERC Compliance Engineers, who own standards administration and official RFI coordination. Maintain clear ownership boundaries so PSE focuses on technical analysis, modeling, and operational improvement.
- Partner with Development, Construction, and Asset Management on interconnection requirements, study coordination, and technically complex projects.
- Prepare budgets, business cases, and technical recommendations for leadership.
Qualifications
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Power Systems emphasis).
- 7+ years of power systems engineering experience, including utility-scale generation or transmission interconnection, with 3+ years leading technical teams or projects.
- Hands-on experience with positive-sequence dynamic modeling and EMT modeling of IBRs (e.g., PSS/E, PSCAD, or equivalent).
- Working knowledge of NERC Reliability Standards for generator owners, including MOD, PRC, and VAR standards.
- Experience with protection and short-circuit/coordination tools (e.g., ETAP) and arc-flash analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to manage vendors and consultants and hold deliverables to a quality standard.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including explaining technical findings to non-technical leaders.
What Would Be Nice
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred.
- Experience with wind, solar, and BESS plants; plant controllers; and SEL or similar relay and settings platforms.
- Experience supporting commissioning, acquisition diligence, or regional entity audits and RFIs.
- Experience negotiating technical scope in EPC or interconnection agreements.
No visa sponsorship or any kind of sponsorship for employment authorization is available for this role, now or in the future.
The pay rate for the successful candidate will depend on geographic location, skills, relevant and demonstrated experience, education, training and certifications, and other factors permitted by law. This role is eligible to earn an annual cash bonus, subject to personal and company performance goals.
Salary Range Across all U.S. Locations
$155,000 - $175,000 USD
Clearway Energy Group is leading the transition to a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.6 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.5 GW of conventional dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway’s operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 3 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Clearway Energy Group’s vision is a world powered by clean energy. Along with our public affiliate Clearway Energy, Inc., our portfolio comprises approximately 11.8 GW of gross generating capacity in 26 states, including 9.1 GW of wind, solar, and battery energy storage assets, and over 2.8 GW of flexible dispatchable power generation providing critical grid reliability services. As we develop a nationwide pipeline of new energy projects for the future, Clearway’s operating fleet generates enough reliable electricity to power more than 2 million homes today. Clearway Energy Group is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Denver, Houston, Phoenix, Princeton, and San Diego. For more information, visit clearwayenergygroup.com.
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