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Reliability Engineer

East Kentucky Power Cooperative Winchester, KY

Winchester, KY

1mo ago Closed

Full time Electrical Engineering Drones Engineering

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Sep 26, 2026).

Job Description

Reliability Engineer will support power delivery maintenance and electric system operations through engineering and technical support, data-driven analysis, outage investigations, and asset and improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

Engineering reports and work plans: Develop reports and work plans recommending actions based on short and long-range objectives, including economic and budget considerations.
Project execution: Develop and coordinate individual project work plans, manage through completion, take needed corrective action, and inform supervisors/managers of major developments or direction changes.
Status and estimates: Provide or support status reporting for work assignments; help prepare estimates including cost, work order, and schedules.
Data analysis and recommendations: Analyze and interpret operational and performance data and make recommendations and/or decisions.
Technical documentation: Maintain technical records such as drawings, files, and databases.
Standards and compliance readiness: Build awareness of procedures, specifications, applicable codes and regulations, compliance rules, and standards (example: RUS) and maintain working knowledge of relevant industry standards.
Power Delivery Maintenance support: Provide engineering and technical support to field personnel for substation and transmission line maintenance issues.
System performance monitoring: Accumulate, analyze, interpret, monitor, report, and recommend improvements for overall operations and performance of the electric power delivery system.
Outage investigation: Support internal outage reporting to ensure sustained and temporary outages are investigated/evaluated timely; initiate appropriate follow-up activities; complete investigation reports with varying levels of assistance.
Coordination with owner-members: Communicate with owner-member engineering and operations departments to identify and answer concerns related to events or outages.
Asset management: Support internal asset management for substations and transmission lines, including submission of problem statements for consideration by Engineering & Construction personnel.
Online monitoring and power quality: Support management of internal online equipment monitoring and power quality programs for substations and transmission lines.
Design and standards-based improvements: Support improvement of substation and transmission line equipment designs using system performance and RUS data while considering safety codes.
Maintenance policies and procedures: Assist with development and upkeep of internal maintenance policies and procedures for substations and transmission lines.
Drones program: Participate in management and improvement of EKPC’s unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones) program for detailed inspections of substations and transmission lines.
Relays and controls (when applicable): Develop or modify relay control settings for distribution recloser controls and regulator controls as required; evaluate and address clearance (code) violations and encroachments.
Additional compliance support: Assist with EKPC’s FAC-003 compliance program (as applicable by level).
Technical services to owner-members: Provide engineering and technical services related to event analysis, power quality, power supply, and electric and magnetic fields (level-dependent).
Capital projects and construction support: Manage lower-level maintenance capital projects (with assistance by level), support preparation of construction requirements and contracts including material specifications, and collaborate with Engineering & Construction personnel on designs for new or special substation foundations or transmission line structures (as assistance level allows).
Engineering representation: Serve as a technical representative in meetings with public, members, vendors, contractors, and other utilities (Senior level).
Safety and timely performance: Perform all work safely and in a timely manner.

Level options

Engineer I: Responsibilities completed under direct supervision; includes reporting, analysis, documentation, outage support, and field technical assistance with significant assistance.
Engineer II: Responsibilities completed under limited supervision; includes project coordination, status reporting, technical records, outage investigation support, and monitoring/program work with moderate assistance.
Engineer III: Responsibilities completed with minimal assistance; includes independent handling of most assignments, outage reporting/investigation, technical services, and design/controls support as applicable.
Senior: Provides expert engineering services, manages assignments in a safe, regulatory compliant, timely, and cost effective manner; works independently and provides work direction; serves as technical representative in public and corporate settings.
Placement: Skill levels are open for consideration (Engineer I, II, III and Senior); final placement will match the person’s experience level.

Hybrid remote schedule

Option for a blend of remote and onsite work if department/business needs allow and with approval from direct supervision.
Hybrid schedule includes three (3) days on premises and up to two (2) days remote.

Technologies

Unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones)
Online equipment monitoring
Power quality programs

Benefits

No waiting period on medical, dental, and vision coverage so you are covered on day one.
Free dental plan for employees.
401(k): Start contributing after one month of service.
EKPC contribution: After three months of service, EKPC automatically contributes 6.5% of base wages.
Match: Employee contributions matched up to 4.5%.
Competitive vacation and sick leave package starting day one to support work-life balance.

Key role descriptions by level

Level 1: Assist with engineering services and support to assigned group; works under direction of more senior individuals; accepts a range of assignments subject to checks/verification.
Level 2: Provide engineering services and support; works under limited direction of more senior individuals; accepts a range of assignments subject to checks/verification.
Level 3: Provide engineering services and support; demonstrates proficiency in work group area; works independently on most assignments subject to limited checks/verification; accepts a range of assignments.
Senior: Provide expert engineering services and support; successfully manages assignments in a safe, regulatory compliant, timely, and cost effective manner; works independently and provides work direction; serves as a technical representative in public and corporate settings.

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