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Utility Job Requirement

Utility Job Requirement

Utility Job Requirement

(OP)
Hi ,

I am sure some of you gurus work in utilities at a managerial or supervisor level. I will be interviewed for  an Engineering Specialist position for a local distribution company. I come from a consulting engineering background.

I was wondering, if you guys could explain me this role in a LDC from a practical perspective and the expectations. Most of the work of this utility is U/G and O/H up to 27.6 kV.

I would appreciate a word.

Thanks

RE: Utility Job Requirement

Engineering Specialist in what specialty?  Could be any thing.

RE: Utility Job Requirement

(OP)
It is for Substations actually.
This desigination is kinda new to me.

RE: Utility Job Requirement

What does the job description say?  Titles do not have a universal meaning.

RE: Utility Job Requirement

Irregardless of the title you get, if the utility is small enough, you still could end up doing many jobs over the long term...hopefully most of them electrical in nature.

Alan

RE: Utility Job Requirement

Between a tech and an engineer. Probably exempt.

RE: Utility Job Requirement

Our utility used designations like that until recently.  Specialist meant a job focused on operating, maintenance and troubleshooting.  Engineering meant professional engineer (out of scope for us).  Technical was a non-engineer (usu technologist) and was in-scope.
So a Substations Engineering Specialist would be a P.Eng whose job was to support the o,m & ts for all the Substations in the company.
This likely doesn't apply 100% accurately to your scenario, but hopefully 80% or better.
 Good luck,
 

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