Principal Power Systems Engineer (Distribution Management Systems)
AI summary of the role
Lead the delivery of AspenTech's Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) to electric utilities, focusing on advanced applications like Distribution Power Flow, FLISR, and Volt/VAR Control.
No longer in the current catalog. Last included 2026-09-09. Check the employer’s posting for availability.
What you’ll do
- Lead and participate in design, planning, and execution of ADMS projects
- Install and configure advanced distribution management applications (DPF, FLISR, VVC/VVO)
- Interface with utility GIS teams to extract, translate, and load electrical network models
- Train customers on system operation and provide technical support for live systems
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent work experience
- 8+ years in a similar Application Engineering role
- Understanding of Electric Distribution Power Systems and modeling (Load Flow, Coordination, Arc Flash Studies)
- Programming and scripting experience (C/Python)
Technologies
ADMS · Distribution Power Flow · FLISR · Volt/VAR Control · GIS · C · Python · SQL · XML · Mongo
About AspenTech
Industrial software for asset-intensive companies to model, optimize, automate, and maintain plants, grids, and upstream assets with first-principles engineering and industrial AI.
Acquired · 2000–5000 people
Source and classification
Implementation & delivery · Evidence for this classification:
leading efforts to design, build, configure, troubleshoot, and test the deployment of our systems. This position gives you broad exposure to the entire ADMS and will focus on advanced applications such as Distribution Power Flow (DPF), Fault Location Isolation & Service Restoration (FLISR), and Volt/VAR Control & Optimization (VVC/VVO). In this role, you will be a primary point of contact with our customers throughout and after the project lifecycle. You will have the opportunity to work across functional teams including other ADMS Engineers, the Architecture & Product Solution teams, and our Software Development organization. Your Impact Implementation of control systems at electric utilities that improve their efficiency to operate the modern grid while ensuring contract requirements and specifications are met Lead and participate in design, planning, and execution of ADMS projects
More from the job description
The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community. The Role DGM’s Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) is a high growth area in our business that unlocks an electric distribution utility’s ability to monitor, manage, control, and optimize the grid. As a Principal DMS Power Systems Engineer you will be involved in all aspects of the successful delivery of systems to our customers. You will be highly engaged with our customers leading efforts to design, build, configure, troubleshoot, and test the deployment of our systems. This position gives you broad exposure to the entire ADMS and will focus on advanced applications such as Distribution Power Flow (DPF), Fault Location Isolation & Service Restoration (FLISR), and Volt/VAR Control & Optimization (VVC/VVO). In this role, you will be a primary point of contact with our customers throughout and after the project lifecycle. You will have the opportunity to work across [... source excerpt omitted ...] re Development organization. Your Impact Implementation of control systems at electric utilities that improve their efficiency to operate the modern grid while ensuring contract requirements and specifications are met Lead and participate in design, planning, and execution of ADMS projects Provide technical direction to engineers during the execution of ADMS projects Installation and configuration of advanced distribution management applications such as Distribution Power Flow (DPF), Fault Location Isolation & Service Restoration (FLISR), and Volt/VAR Control & Optimization (VVC/VVO). Lead testing events with the customer Work closely with OSI development teams to troubleshoot [... source excerpt omitted ...] and load the electrical network model to the Distribution Management System Configure and integrate software components to meet contract requirement specifications and test with customers Train customers on how to operate the systems being delivered Provide technical support to troubleshoot and resolve issues observed on live systems What You'll Need Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent knowledge gained through work experience required 8+ years of experience in a similar Application Engineering role Understanding of Electric Distribution Power Systems and modeling (Load Flow Studies, Coordination Studies, Arc Flash Studies) Programming and scripting experience
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