Planning Engineer (P.Eng) – Grid Analytics & Modernization - CONTRACT

Planning Engineer (P. Eng) – Grid Analytics & Modernization

Distribution Planning | Forecasting | Data & Power Systems

Location: Hybrid (3 days remote, 2 days onsite – GTA)

Contract: 12 Months (Strong Extension Potential)

Engagement Type: Contract

Rate: Negotiable

🚀 Help Modernize Distribution Planning Through Data & Analytics

Our client, a leading Ontario-based electricity distribution utility, is advancing a next-generation Grid Analytics & Data Modernization initiative to enhance system planning, forecasting accuracy, and investment decision-making.

They are seeking a Planning Engineer (P.Eng) to support the evolution of modern distribution system planning capabilities — blending traditional power system fundamentals with advanced analytics and forecasting tools.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, data, and modernization.

🔍 What Makes This Role Unique

• Shape modern planning and forecasting capabilities for a large LDC
• Support DER and DSO planning initiatives
• Work with advanced time-series forecasting models and probabilistic methods
• Influence long-term capital investment decisions
• Help transform planning processes through analytics-driven tools

This is not a traditional scheduling role.

This is a modernization-focused planning and analytics role.

🛠 Key Responsibilities

📊 Planning & Forecasting Modernization

• Lead and coordinate definition of planning and forecasting tool requirements (functional, integration, and data specifications)
• Support development and validation of probabilistic time-series forecasting approaches (including Monte Carlo methods)
• Contribute to feeder-level analytics modeling system needs at 15-minute granularity over a 10-year horizon
• Support scenario analysis assessing uncertainty factors (energy prices, technology adoption, DER growth, etc.)

⚙️ Distribution System Planning & Analysis

• Support system and feeder-level planning analyses (capacity, constraints, reliability performance)
• Assess technical feasibility and economic value of traditional and non-wires solutions
• Apply structured multi-attribute decision-making approaches

🗂 Data & Tool Implementation

• Identify, source, and validate planning datasets (GIS/network models, load data, DER/EV connections, reliability metrics)
• Resolve data quality issues in collaboration with internal stakeholders
• Support tool implementation activities including UAT, testing, and defect triage
• Manage vendor coordination at the technical SME interface

🎓 Training & Adoption

• Develop training materials and job aids
• Facilitate end-user training sessions
• Support change management and adoption across engineering teams

🎯 What You Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering (strong power systems focus preferred)
• Active P.Eng designation in Ontario (or eligibility to obtain)
• Experience in distribution system planning and forecasting
• Background in feeder-level capacity planning and load growth analysis
• Experience supporting implementation of planning or analytics tools
• Advanced Excel proficiency
• Strong analytical mindset and comfort working with datasets and models
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

🌟 Strong Assets

• Experience with Power BI, SQL, Python, R, Tableau, or Alteryx
• Familiarity with probabilistic modeling or Monte Carlo analysis
• Exposure to DER integration, EV forecasting, or DSO planning
• Experience in utility modernization or analytics initiatives

🌍 The Impact You’ll Make

• Improve the quality, consistency, and timeliness of distribution planning
• Enable data-driven capital investment decisions
• Enhance long-term system performance and reliability
• Contribute to the modernization of planning processes within a large LDC

👥 Who This Role Is Ideal For

• Distribution Planning Engineers looking to expand into analytics
• Utility engineers with forecasting and modeling experience
• Power system professionals interested in modernizing planning through data