About Us: Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy expansion solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities.
Through its transmission business, LS Power Grid, the company built and operates 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission and 7 transmission utilities and has another 375+ miles currently in construction or development. LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are meeting the growing needs of the energy expansion, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms.
Over the years, LS Power has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure. Our Purpose, Mission, & Values Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world. Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem.
Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership. Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset. We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.
Benefits We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees' happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.
About the Role Designed for an engineering student approaching graduation, this role offers broad responsibility and the opportunity for rapid professional growth. The Project Engineer will help LS Power evaluate and pursue opportunities to grow its transmission business by developing project concepts, performing engineering analyses and design, and supporting competitive proposals and other development initiatives.
This role combines engineering analysis and design with the broader business challenges involved in developing new transmission projects. Engineering will be a part of the position, but not its sole focus. The right candidate is someone who wants to apply their engineering mindset across a mixture of technical and business challenges.
Responsibilities What you will Do Research potential transmission opportunities and assess relevant engineering, transmission planning, permitting, siting, regulatory, cost, schedule, and commercial considerations. Develop preliminary project concepts and compare alternative scopes, facilities, and execution approaches.
Perform engineering analyses and prepare calculations, studies, drawings, and other technical deliverables. Learn and use PLS-CADD to perform transmission line design and related analyses. Coordinate with internal specialists and external consultants to gather and evaluate information and develop analyses and project documents.
Identify missing or conflicting information and update analyses as project inputs change. Prepare proposals, analyses, cost estimates, and risk assessments for competitive pursuits and internal decisions. Own assigned work through completion, meet deadlines, raise issues early, and check work for accuracy and consistency.
Use approved artificial intelligence and other productivity tools to improve work quality and efficiency while independently verifying results.
Qualifications We want you on our team because you Have a Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university, with an expected graduation date of December 2026 or May 2027. Have an interest in transmission development and the ability to apply an engineering mindset to technical and business challenges.
Have strong written and verbal communication skills. Bring consistent attention to detail. Can independently learn unfamiliar concepts and software.
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