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# Senior Consultant-Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Technical Services

- **Company:** Guidehouse Inc.
- **Location:** Sacramento, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $80,000.0 - $133,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Programming Languages
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/C00F8FBC2CB7459A926D4E4DE3EEDE71/job/

## About the Role

The Senior Consultant-Transmission & Distribution (T&D) Technical Services plays a key role in developing, delivering, and supporting technical solutions related to the power grid, especially focused on the changing industry dynamics as part of a clean energy future. This Senior Consultant-T&D Technical Services position is a highly challenging role that draws heavily upon all of the analytical, technical, creative, and interpersonal skills essential to delivering effective T&D studies/analysis and general strategy consulting engagements. It is essential for the Senior Consultant-T&D Technical Services to have the ability to learn and eventually assume the responsibilities of project management of significant projects while at the same time being a part of a project delivery team., * Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident, due to nature of client engagements

 * Senior Consultant - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering AND 3+ years United States Bulk Electric System (BES) professional work experience excluding internships, co-ops, or fellowships; Or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering AND 1+ years United States Bulk Electric System (BES) professional work experience excluding internships, co-ops, or fellowships; Or Completing a PhD degree in electrical or power systems engineering from an accredited university or college in 2026 AND One (1+) plus year directly relevant Graduate Assistant/Research work with relevant PhD research/course work experience
 * Managing Consultant - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering AND 5+ years United States Bulk Electric System (BES) professional work experience excluding internships, co-ops, or fellowships; Or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering AND 3+ years United States Bulk Electric System (BES) professional work experience excluding internships, co-ops, fellowships; Or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering AND 1+ years United States Bulk Electric System (BES) professional work experience excluding internships, co-ops or fellowships
 * Technical understanding of or the ability to learn various power systems engineering tools such as PSLF / POWERWORLD Simulator/ PSSE / ASPEN / TARA/ CAPE / DSATools / PSCAD or EMPT
 * Familiarity with or ability to quickly become adept at FERC, NERC, and state regulatory requirements and processes
 * In-depth knowledge of transmission and distribution systems from a planning and operations standpoint
 * Excellent oral and written communication skills
 * Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
 * Ability to travel
 * Ability to work in a Guidehouse Office or Client Office location

What Would Be Nice To Have :

 * Preference will be given to candidates who live within a reasonable driving distance of a listed Guidehouse Office or Client Office
 * Consulting experience within the utilities industry
 * Post graduation work experience using one or more of the following power systems engineering tools: PSLF / POWERWORLD Simulator/ PSSE / ASPEN / TARA/ CAPE / DSATools / PSCAD or EMPT
 * Working knowledge of ISO/RTO operations and functions, especially western markets and CAISO
 * Knowledge of resource interconnection and expansion planning practices and protocols
 * Familiarity with transmission development, including competitive development
 * Ability to code and knowledge of coding languages such as R, Python, VA, SQL

## Description

* Manage and act as technical solution delivery lead/consultant on projects related to electrical transmission system planning studies to determine transmission requirements, generation additions, and retirements
 * Familiarity with or ability to quickly grasp various transmission planning concepts, practices and procedures, and ability to apply Transmission Planning reliability criteria to perform analysis
 * Perform power systems analysis including transmission planning feasibility studies, System Impact Studies and Generator Interconnection Studies
 * Perform Steady State, Dynamic Stability Simulation, Voltage Stability Simulation, and Short Circuit Analysis, and recommend mitigations
 * Develop / fine tune dynamic models for conventional and inverter-based resources (IBRs) and implement them for stability/transient simulation based analysis


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