Transmission Portfolio Engineer

The role

The Transmission Portfolio Engineer will support the development, planning, and management of a major electric utility's transmission capital investment portfolio. This role involves collaborating with utility planning organizations and stakeholders to maintain an integrated long-range capital portfolio for transmission infrastructure.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the long-range transmission capital portfolio with utility planning organizations.
• Support implementation of multi-year capital investment plans for transmission infrastructure.
• Coordinate with project sponsors to understand proposed projects and investment requirements.
• Evaluate proposed projects for feasibility, timing, budget, and alignment with the portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to optimize projects to avoid duplicate scope.
• Support annual and long-range budget planning with utility stakeholders.
• Review proposed projects for technical justification and supporting documentation.
• Develop conceptual project scopes, schedules, estimates, and budget requirements.
• Review engineering estimates for accuracy and alignment with scope.
• Review project change requests and evaluate their impact on the portfolio.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an ABET-accredited program.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in electric utility engineering, transmission planning, project development, project management, capital planning, portfolio management, or a related technical environm
• Working knowledge of electric transmission infrastructure, including transmission lines, substations, and related utility systems.
• Ability to evaluate technical project information and translate engineering and planning needs into actionable requirements.
• Strong planning, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong professional judgment and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate effectively across various utility organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a client-facing environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other standard business and project-management applications.
• Ability to travel approximately 10–20%, depending on project assignment and client needs.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting electric transmission planning, engineering, project development, or capital programs.
• Experience with transmission lines, substations, network/telecommunications infrastructure, asset replacement, system upgrades, reliability investments, or other transmission capital projects.
• Experience developing or supporting multi-year utility capital plans or integrated project portfolios.
• Experience with project scoping, conceptual estimating, scheduling, project prioritization, investment planning, or project initiation.
• Experience reviewing engineering estimates, project change requests, scopes, schedules, or budgets.
• Experience supporting utility regulatory or rate-filing activities.
• Familiarity with utility project, financial, engineering, asset-management, or portfolio-management systems.
• Experience working across multiple utility operating companies, business units, or stakeholder organizations.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification
• Professional Engineer (PE) license

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.