Senior Engineer Operations Planning FRES

Join MIDCONTINENT INDEPENDENT SYSTEM as a Senior Engineer Operations Planning FRES, onsite in Carmel, Indiana. This role offers a competitive annual salary of USD 127,000 to 152,000, plus a bonus program aligned with individual performance and company objectives. You will manage outage information, build near-term models of the power system, perform reliability assessments, and help develop operating guides for normal and abnormal conditions. The position prioritizes cross-functional collaboration and practical impact, with a benefits package that includes a 401(k) from day one, vacation, sick time, safe time, and comprehensive health and related benefits.

Benefits

• Annual bonus potential based on individual performance and company objectives
• 401(k) available on your first day of employment
• Vacation
• Sick time
• Safe time
• Comprehensive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Use CROW to enter, update, and communicate outage-related information
• Develop near-term models of the MISO power system to support power flow, contingency, and stability analyses
• Assess system performance issues and produce analyses on transmission limitations, forecast assumptions, congestion management, and mitigation planning across multiple time horizons
• Lead operational planning analyses and collaborate with multiple service line groups
• Make decisions affecting project design, scheduling, and completion across departments
• Develop and review operating guides, agreements, and procedures for normal and abnormal conditions and support their implementation

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• Experience in an ISO/RTO, utility, transmission owner, or balancing authority environment
• Proficiency with power system analysis tools such as EMS, PSS®E, TARA, or similar
• Knowledge of NERC Reliability Standards, operating procedures, and outage coordination processes
• Experience developing operating plans, conducting reliability assessments, and collaborating across teams
• Technical skills including steady-state simulation, transient stability (preferred), Python/SQL/VBA scripting, and understanding of NERC/FERC compliance requirements

Technologies

• CROW
• EMS
• PSS®E
• TARA
• Python
• SQL
• VBA

What success looks like

Successful candidates are curious, analytical problem-solvers with strong power system knowledge who prioritize effectively under pressure and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. After about a year, success means independently conducting reliability assessments, delivering high-quality studies on schedule, contributing to operating guideline development, and being recognized as a trusted technical resource within the organization.