Job Description

Engineer I
$67,000 - $84,000 | In Person reporting to one of the following Minnesota locations: Duluth, Eveleth, Coleraine, or Cloquet.

Join a role where your work directly supports system reliability, customer experience, and continuous improvement. In this position, you’ll combine analytics, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to identify reliability challenges, support strategic priorities, and help strengthen the electric distribution system.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain reliability records, templates, annual files, documentation, databases, and reporting tools for Minnesota Power and Superior Water, Light and Power programs.
• Coordinate annual reliability data updates, including customer counts, feeder mileage and density, storm exclusions, and REM database updates.
• Perform outage data entry and review outage events for accuracy, completeness, eligibility, storm exclusion status, and metric impacts.
• Prepare quarterly reliability reports, benchmarking submissions, and other performance reporting materials, including metrics, outage narratives, goals, trends, and supporting documentation.
• Identify and document large outage events, PUC-reportable outages, and other significant reliability events in accordance with company and regulatory requirements.
• Analyze outage trends, feeder performance, recurring issues, regional results, crew feedback, and system data to identify improvement opportunities and support reliability best practices, design standards, and related initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional reliability improvement projects and communicate findings, recommendations, meeting outcomes, and project priorities to leadership and project teams.
  

What You'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or a related technical field; equivalent utility experience.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data, identify trends, validate results, and develop practical recommendations.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare technical reports, summarize findings, and present recommendations to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to collaborate across teams, build working relationships with field and office personnel, and manage multiple priorities and recurring deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; experience with Power BI, data visualization, or reporting tools is preferred.
• Ability to travel occasionally, as required to support position responsibilities.
• Valid driver's license.

How to Stand Out

• Utility engineering internship experience.
• Knowledge of electric distribution systems, outage management processes, reliability metrics, and utility operations.
• Experience working with engineering, operational, GIS, outage management, or other utility-related data systems preferred.
• Professional Engineer license.

About Us

Minnesota Power, an ALLETE company, is an electric utility headquartered in Duluth, Minnesota. We provide electricity in a 26,000-square-mile service area in northeastern Minnesota to 150,000 customers, including 14 municipal systems and some of the nation’s largest industrial customers. Minnesota Power is committed to a sustainable future for the climate, our customers and our communities while delivering safe and reliable energy. We play a unique and significant role in ALLETE’s sustainability-in-action strategy. Our culture drives excellence through our shared values of integrity, safety, people, and the planet.

The expected annual compensation range for this position is $67,000 - $84,000. Compensation offered to the selected candidate will vary depending on relevant knowledge, skills, training, and experience. Additionally, this position qualifies for a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Incentive Programs
• Retirement Benefits
• Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Benefits
• Paid Absences, and more.
  

This position may be subject to assessment of skills, job match, and /or aptitude.

Employer will not sponsor Visas for position.

External applicants must apply online via www.allete.com/careers.

This job posting will be available for application until the position has been filled OR the posting close date noted herein, whichever date is earlier.

ALLETE is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

If you are an individual with disabilities who needs accommodation or you are having difficulty using our website to apply for employment, please contact our Human Resources department at 218-723-3921.

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