NextEra Energy
Overview
Senior Transmission Planning Engineer
Date: Sep 3, 2025
Location: Denver, CO, US, 80201
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 88970
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description: The Transmission Planning Engineer for the Transmission Fundamentals team will help design, build, and use a unique software tool that looks beyond the existing planning processes to identify and evaluate the transmission needs of the future grid. You will then collaborate with other teams to develop new renewable energy and transmission solutions across the United States and Canada. This position is part of a team performing technical modeling and analysis to identify, evaluate, and support development of new opportunities on the transmission system. Successful candidates will have experience developing novel analysis approaches or tools.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with colleagues to create new analysis tools and models to identify, design, and evaluate new renewable energy and transmission projects, both within and beyond the current planning process horizons
Contribute to developing new modeling capabilities
Identify enhancements to state-of-the-art tools to better identify optimal renewable energy and transmission opportunities from analysis of many scenarios and sensitivities
Perform powerflow, production cost, and economic analyses using off-the-shelf and custom tools
Collaborate with other teams to develop identified projects
Desired Qualifications
A power systems background
An understanding of the planning processes within utilities and RTOs/ISOs, including reliability and economic analyses
Experience with common powerflow and production-cost software such as PSS/E, PowerWorld, PowerGEM TARA, PROMOD, GRIDVIEW, UPLAN, PLEXOS, and Enelytix
Programming skills in Python
Experience developing novel analysis approaches or tools
Ability to communicate complex technical information
Ability to coordinate activities with multiple internal and external SMEs
Qualifications
This position is preferably based in-person at our Denver office, with flexibility for remote work arrangements
Job Responsibilities and Qualifications
Perform power-flow, short-circuit, and stability studies of the transmission systems
Assess study results to identify future needs for system improvements
Perform studies required to ensure compliance with NERC Reliability Standards and Transmission Planning Criteria
Perform generator interconnection studies and identify system upgrades or additions
Represent utility interest in committees or working groups associated with NERC, and other industry groups
Work with design and engineering groups/consultants on required Transmission Planning projects
Prepares communications, and presentations and provides support at meetings
Provide leadership to committees or groups as needed
Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's - Engineering
Experience: 5+ years
Preferred Qualifications
Master's - Engineering
Leadership Experience: 1+ years
Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
The base pay range for this position is $104,800.00 to $157,200.00 per year. This range represents the expected base pay for a successful candidate and is based on a variety of factors, including skills, experience, and internal equity.
Employee Group:
Exempt
Employee Type:
Full Time
Job Category:
Engineering
Organization:
NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided:
Yes, if applicable
This position is eligible for Company sponsored benefits. Click to see our benefits.
In order to apply to this position, please visit jobs.nexteraenergy.com or follow the instructions for the job site on which this appears.
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our site for more information.
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Date: Sep 3, 2025
Location: Denver, CO, US, 80201
Company: NextEra Energy
Requisition ID: 88970
NextEra Energy Resources is one of America’s largest wholesale electricity generators, harnessing diverse energy sources to power progress. We deliver tailored energy solutions that fuel economic growth, strengthen communities, and help customers achieve their energy goals. Ready to make a lasting impact? Take the next step in your career with us!
Position Specific Description: The Transmission Planning Engineer for the Transmission Fundamentals team will help design, build, and use a unique software tool that looks beyond the existing planning processes to identify and evaluate the transmission needs of the future grid. You will then collaborate with other teams to develop new renewable energy and transmission solutions across the United States and Canada. This position is part of a team performing technical modeling and analysis to identify, evaluate, and support development of new opportunities on the transmission system. Successful candidates will have experience developing novel analysis approaches or tools.
Key Responsibilities
Collaborate with colleagues to create new analysis tools and models to identify, design, and evaluate new renewable energy and transmission projects, both within and beyond the current planning process horizons
Contribute to developing new modeling capabilities
Identify enhancements to state-of-the-art tools to better identify optimal renewable energy and transmission opportunities from analysis of many scenarios and sensitivities
Perform powerflow, production cost, and economic analyses using off-the-shelf and custom tools
Collaborate with other teams to develop identified projects
Desired Qualifications
A power systems background
An understanding of the planning processes within utilities and RTOs/ISOs, including reliability and economic analyses
Experience with common powerflow and production-cost software such as PSS/E, PowerWorld, PowerGEM TARA, PROMOD, GRIDVIEW, UPLAN, PLEXOS, and Enelytix
Programming skills in Python
Experience developing novel analysis approaches or tools
Ability to communicate complex technical information
Ability to coordinate activities with multiple internal and external SMEs
Qualifications
This position is preferably based in-person at our Denver office, with flexibility for remote work arrangements
Job Responsibilities and Qualifications
Perform power-flow, short-circuit, and stability studies of the transmission systems
Assess study results to identify future needs for system improvements
Perform studies required to ensure compliance with NERC Reliability Standards and Transmission Planning Criteria
Perform generator interconnection studies and identify system upgrades or additions
Represent utility interest in committees or working groups associated with NERC, and other industry groups
Work with design and engineering groups/consultants on required Transmission Planning projects
Prepares communications, and presentations and provides support at meetings
Provide leadership to committees or groups as needed
Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's - Engineering
Experience: 5+ years
Preferred Qualifications
Master's - Engineering
Leadership Experience: 1+ years
Certified Professional Engineer (PE)
Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
The base pay range for this position is $104,800.00 to $157,200.00 per year. This range represents the expected base pay for a successful candidate and is based on a variety of factors, including skills, experience, and internal equity.
Employee Group:
Exempt
Employee Type:
Full Time
Job Category:
Engineering
Organization:
NextEra Energy Project Management, LLC
Relocation Provided:
Yes, if applicable
This position is eligible for Company sponsored benefits. Click to see our benefits.
In order to apply to this position, please visit jobs.nexteraenergy.com or follow the instructions for the job site on which this appears.
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our site for more information.
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