Distribution Portfolio Engineer

The role

The Distribution Portfolio Engineer will support the development, planning, and management of electric distribution capital investment portfolios for a major utility client. This role involves collaborating with utility stakeholders to identify capital needs, develop project concepts, and build integrated long-range investment plans.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain long-range distribution capital portfolios with utility stakeholders.
• Support development and implementation of the utility's five-year capital plan.
• Coordinate across operating companies to identify distribution capital needs.
• Evaluate project needs, priorities, timing, feasibility, dependencies, and funding requirements.
• Identify opportunities to bundle, sequence, coordinate, or optimize projects.
• Support development of project concepts, preliminary scopes, estimates, schedules, and funding requirements.
• Review proposed projects for justification, scope, engineering information, and supporting data.
• Support distribution equipment planning including transformers, feeders, and substations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to identify equipment constraints, dependencies, and execution risks.
• Analyze portfolio and project data to identify gaps, trends, risks, and opportunities.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited four-year college or university.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in electric utility engineering, planning, project development, capital planning, or a related technical environment.
• Working knowledge of electric utility infrastructure and capital project development.
• Ability to evaluate technical project information and translate engineering needs into actionable requirements.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across multiple organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work in a client-facing environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other standard business and project-management applications.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting electric distribution planning, engineering, or capital programs.
• Experience with distribution substations, transformers, feeders, reliability improvements, capacity projects, system upgrades, or asset-replacement programs.
• Experience developing or supporting multi-year utility capital plans or project portfolios.
• Experience with project scoping, conceptual estimating, scheduling, project prioritization, or investment planning.
• Familiarity with utility project, financial, engineering, asset-management, or portfolio-management systems.
• Experience working across multiple utility operating companies, business units, or stakeholder organizations.

Benefits

• Strong compensation
• Full benefits
• 401(k) match

About the company

CARIAN is a purpose-driven, woman-owned consulting and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to the power sector. They partner with leading electric and gas utilities to provide strategic advisory and disciplined execution.