Posted: 15-Jul-25
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Type: Full Time
Salary: $5,928 to $8,493 Monthly
Salary Details:
Required Education:
Internal Number: 48518
Under the direct supervision of the Assistant Director of Integrated Distribution Planning, Electrical Engineer II will monitor, review, and analyze electric utility system planning and operations and provides expert advice to the Commission on those issues, requiring use of scanners, personal computers and corresponding printers, using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook software programs. Independently evaluates multiple assignments and workload in order to properly prioritize activities.
This position requires a Bachelor of Science degree in electric engineering. This position also requires working knowledge of manual and automated office equipment, requires extensive knowledge of English composition, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and requires extensive working knowledge of personal computers and MS Office products including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
This position prefers the following: an advanced electrical engineering degree; two (2) years of professional experience in electrical engineering at a public utility or utility regulatory agency; experience with grid modernization, distributed energy resources (DERs), demand response, and energy storage technologies; familiarity with utility rate-making principles, cost recovery mechanisms, beneficial electrification, and performance-based rate making; the ability to understand and interpret relevant codes and research new technologies; the ability to understand utility engineering investment proposals and independently formulate written recommendations in response to those technical proposals in a manner that is easily accessible and understood to non-engineers, and prefers an Illinois certification as a licensed professional engineer.