Industrial to Utility Job Change
Industrial to Utility Job Change
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I am considering accepting an offer from a large electrical utility for a distribution engineering position. I am a PE with 10+ years experience in a variety of large industrial settings (lots of generation, distribution, and control experience). I am curious if anyone has made a similar industrial to utility job change and if it turned out to be what they expected? My assumption is that the challenges would be similar, but there would be less variety and more "by the book" engineering on the utility side of the fence. Am I missing something here?






RE: Industrial to Utility Job Change
RE: Industrial to Utility Job Change
RE: Industrial to Utility Job Change
But I reckon the variety of electrical work I get to do in my utility may not be as great as I saw in heavy industry (integrated iron and steel plant, smallish plant +/- 200MVA) but it allowed me to find what I like doing (protection). Now I can specialise in a utility environment, and still have a great variety within that specialisation. I was much more a jack-of-all-trades in industry, and I wouldn't trade that 4 years experience with all kinds of engineering for anything - it is surprising how good a foundation it has been!
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