How to Apply to Dominion Energy

12 min read Last updated April 20, 2026 84 open positions
Blake Crosley
Blake Crosley Researched using publicly available information, hiring data, and ATS analysis.

Key Takeaways

  • Dominion Energy uses SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting for every business unit. One candidate account works for Virginia Power, Dominion Energy South Carolina, Dominion Energy Generation, and corporate Richmond.
  • Pre-employment testing is real and varies by role. Administrative candidates get a one-hour online battery, craft and skilled trades candidates take the EEI test on-site (free practice tests are provided), and Line Worker, Customer Projects Designer, and Customer Contact Specialist roles take a 45-minute HireVue Virtual Job Tryout.
  • The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project is the largest U.S. offshore wind buildout to date, with first power expected in 2025-2026 and full commercial operations in 2026. It is creating large-scale demand for marine engineering, transmission, project controls, and environmental compliance hires.
  • The Northern Virginia data center boom is driving multi-decade transmission and substation buildout, with a parallel push toward new nuclear capacity. Distribution planning, transmission engineering, and large-customer interconnection roles are unusually open right now.
  • Behavioral interviewing dominates. Practice STAR responses to safety stop-work scenarios, conflict resolution, decision-making under uncertainty, and times you escalated rather than worked around a problem.
  • Veterans are explicitly recruited. Dominion publicly states that one in five new hires is a veteran, runs a Veterans Network ERG, and offers a 100 percent military pay differential for up to five years for deployed employees plus dedicated student veteran scholarships.
  • Resumes should be ATS-clean (linear, no columns, no graphics), keyword-aligned to the requisition, and quantified. Avoid creative formatting; SuccessFactors' parser is reliable on standard layouts and unreliable on everything else.
  • Long-term fit is selected for. Dominion is a multi-decade-tenure employer and interviews are calibrated to find people who will still be there in ten years.

About Dominion Energy

Dominion Energy, Inc. (NYSE: D) is one of the largest investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities in the United States, headquartered at 120 Tredegar Street in Richmond, Virginia. With roughly 17,000 employees and approximately $14 billion in annual revenue, Dominion serves about 7 million customer accounts across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and parts of the Northeast. The company is led by Chair, President, and CEO Robert M. Blue, who has guided a multi-year strategic refocusing back to the company's core regulated utility operations after divesting most of its midstream gas business. The enterprise is built around three operating segments that touch nearly every kind of energy job a utility can offer. Dominion Energy Virginia (the regulated electric distribution and transmission business in Virginia and northeastern North Carolina) is the company's flagship and the engine of its rate-base growth. Dominion Energy South Carolina, the former SCANA business acquired in 2019, runs electric and natural gas distribution across the Palmetto State. Dominion Energy Generation owns and operates the company's fleet of nuclear, natural gas, coal, hydro, solar, and emerging offshore wind assets, including the Surry and North Anna nuclear stations in Virginia. The headline project shaping Dominion's hiring profile through 2026 and beyond is the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, a 2.6 gigawatt offshore wind farm being built roughly 27 miles off Virginia Beach. When fully energized, CVOW will be the largest offshore wind facility in the United States and one of the largest in the world, requiring an unprecedented buildout of marine engineering, transmission, project management, environmental compliance, and operations talent. First power is expected in 2025-2026 with full commercial operations targeted for 2026, which means Dominion is actively recruiting offshore wind specialists, marine operations staff, transmission engineers, and project controls professionals. The other major story driving Dominion's hiring is the data center load explosion in Northern Virginia. The Loudoun County and Prince William County corridor (commonly called "Data Center Alley") consumes more electricity than any other comparable region on Earth, and forecasts call for Virginia's electricity demand to roughly double by the mid-2030s, driven largely by hyperscale AI and cloud computing facilities. That demand surge is creating jobs across grid planning, substation engineering, transmission line design, large-load customer projects, and generation development (including a renewed push toward small modular reactors and the potential restart of additional nuclear capacity). Dominion is, fundamentally, a regulated utility. That shapes every aspect of working there. Rates are set by state regulators (the Virginia State Corporation Commission and the South Carolina Public Service Commission), which means the company operates inside a tightly governed framework where reliability, safety, environmental compliance, and customer affordability outweigh the kind of move-fast culture you would find at a tech company. The flip side is durable demand, long project horizons (transmission lines and power plants are measured in decades), strong benefits, defined-benefit pension elements for some legacy roles, and the kind of mission clarity that comes from keeping the lights on for 7 million households. There are also live political and regulatory pressures, including ratepayer advocacy challenges to large generation investments, fuel cost recovery debates, and ongoing scrutiny of the affordability impact of the data center boom, all of which shape day-to-day work for employees in regulatory affairs, government relations, finance, and customer-facing roles.

Application Process

  1. 1
    Search openings at careers

    Search openings at careers.dominionenergy.com. The site is organized into job families like Engineering, Skilled Trades and Technicians, Customer Service, Information Systems, Cyber Security, Science and Environmental, Business Professional, and Student Employment. Use the family menus to browse rather than relying solely on keyword search, because internal job titles (for example 'Engineer Assoc. to Staff' or 'Customer Projects Designer') do not always match what an outsider would type.

  2. 2
    Create your candidate account

    Create your candidate account. The careers portal runs on SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, so the same account works across every Dominion business unit and every requisition. Use a permanent personal email (not a school or current-employer address) because correspondence about testing, interviews, and offers will all flow through it.

  3. 3
    Apply with a tailored, ATS-clean resume

    Apply with a tailored, ATS-clean resume. Upload a standard Word document or PDF. Avoid columns, text boxes, headers/footers, and graphics. SuccessFactors' parser reliably handles linear, top-to-bottom layouts. After upload, the system will pre-fill an applicant profile from your resume and you should review every field for accuracy before submitting.

  4. 4
    Complete the full applicant questionnaire

    Complete the full applicant questionnaire. Dominion uses screening questions for licensure (CDL, journeyman lineman certifications, professional engineering licenses), security eligibility (especially for nuclear and cyber roles), and basic minimum qualifications. Skipping or fudging these is the single fastest way to get auto-screened out.

  5. 5
    Wait for recruiter outreach

    Wait for recruiter outreach. Dominion's published process states that recruiters review qualifications and contact candidates if there is a fit. Active listings move quickly for high-demand roles (line workers, distribution engineers, nuclear operators), while corporate and IT roles can take several weeks. You can log back into your SuccessFactors account at any time to see status updates ('Application Received,' 'Under Review,' 'Interview,' 'Offer Extended').

  6. 6
    Complete pre-employment testing if invited

    Complete pre-employment testing if invited. Dominion is explicit that you must be selected before testing, so a test invitation is itself a positive signal. Different role families trigger different assessments: administrative roles get a one-hour online battery (proofreading, coding, simulated Word/Excel/PowerPoint), craft and skilled trades candidates take the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) battery on-site, and Line Worker, Customer Projects Designer, and Customer Contact Specialist roles complete a 45-minute HireVue Virtual Job Tryout (VJT). Many engineering, operations, and corporate roles add aptitude, situational judgment, or behavioral assessments.

  7. 7
    Interview, often in multiple rounds

    Interview, often in multiple rounds. Expect a recruiter screen first, then a hiring manager interview, then often a panel with cross-functional stakeholders. Behavioral questions dominate, and Dominion's own materials encourage candidates to use the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

  8. 8
    Pre-employment medical and background screens

    Pre-employment medical and background screens. Once an offer is extended, Dominion runs medical screening (which includes drug testing and, for some roles, fitness-for-duty exams), background checks, and for nuclear positions, federally mandated unescorted access authorization. Field roles also require driving record reviews.

Resume Tips for Dominion Energy

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Lead with measurable utility-relevant outcomes

Lead with measurable utility-relevant outcomes. For engineers, that means MW served, miles of conductor designed or rebuilt, substation projects delivered on schedule, outage minutes avoided, or NERC compliance milestones met. For corporate roles, lead with budget managed, regulatory filings supported, or rate case work delivered. Vague verbs like 'collaborated' or 'supported' get drowned out by the volume of utility resumes recruiters review.

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Name the codes, standards, and software you actually use

Name the codes, standards, and software you actually use. NESC, NEC, IEEE 1547, NERC CIP, ASME Section XI, ANSI/IEEE C37, EPRI guidance, and SCADA/EMS platforms (OSI monarch, GE eTerra, Siemens Spectrum), CYME, PSS/E, ETAP, SAP, Maximo, ESRI ArcGIS, AutoCAD Electrical, and PLS-CADD are all keywords that route resumes correctly inside SuccessFactors. List them in a clean Skills block and prove them in bullets underneath each role.

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If you are applying to a CVOW (offshore wind) role, foreground any marine, offsh

If you are applying to a CVOW (offshore wind) role, foreground any marine, offshore oil and gas, HVDC, or large transmission interconnection experience. Crew transfer vessel familiarity, BOEM/BSEE compliance exposure, Jones Act considerations, and substation foundation design all signal directly. If you are coming from onshore wind or solar, translate that experience explicitly to the offshore context rather than assuming the recruiter will draw the line.

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For lineworker, substation tech, and skilled trades roles, list every certificat

For lineworker, substation tech, and skilled trades roles, list every certification, every CDL endorsement, every voltage class you have worked, your apprenticeship hours and step, and any IBEW or other union credentials. Recruiters and EEI test administrators screen for these specifics before behavioral fit is even considered.

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For nuclear roles at Surry or North Anna, call out NRC license status (RO, SRO),

For nuclear roles at Surry or North Anna, call out NRC license status (RO, SRO), Senior Reactor Operator certification path, Systematic Approach to Training (SAT) exposure, plant-specific procedures or simulators worked, INPO accreditation work, and any prior reactor type (PWR vs BWR). Surry and North Anna are both Westinghouse PWR plants. Security clearance and unescorted access history should be noted but never described in detail.

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For Northern Virginia data center and large-load customer projects, highlight la

For Northern Virginia data center and large-load customer projects, highlight large customer interconnection experience, load study work, capacity planning at the substation and transmission level, and any work with hyperscale customers. The volume and pace of new service requests in this corridor is a known operational stress point and recruiters value people who have lived through it.

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Veterans should explicitly translate MOS codes to civilian utility work

Veterans should explicitly translate MOS codes to civilian utility work. Dominion publicly states that one in five new hires is a veteran, and the careers site links O*NET and Troops to Energy Jobs as crosswalk resources. Use those tools to translate, then write the civilian-facing version of your bullets in the resume itself rather than leaving the recruiter to decode acronyms.

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Keep formatting boring

Keep formatting boring. SuccessFactors will parse a one or two column linear resume cleanly, but it routinely mangles graphics, sidebars, infographics, and creative typography. Use standard section headings (Summary, Experience, Education, Certifications, Skills) so the parser maps fields correctly into the candidate profile.

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Match the job posting language

Match the job posting language. SuccessFactors recruiter searches inside Dominion are keyword-driven. If the requisition says 'distribution planning,' the phrase 'distribution planning' should appear in your resume verbatim, not 'circuit planning' or 'feeder analysis.' This is mechanical, not stylistic.

ATS System: SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting

Dominion Energy's careers portal at careers.dominionenergy.com runs on SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting, the enterprise applicant tracking and talent management suite that powers most of the Fortune 500 utility sector. Confirmed by the rmkcdn.successfactors.com asset domain serving the site's logo and CSS, the standard SuccessFactors Career Site Builder URL patterns (/go/{family}/{id}/, /search/, /content/), and the JSESSIONID cookie signature consistent with SuccessFactors deployments. The system handles everything from initial keyword screening to interview scheduling to offer letter generation, so the same account a candidate creates on day one travels with them through the entire hiring lifecycle.

  • Build your SuccessFactors candidate profile with the same care as your resume. Recruiters can search the candidate database directly on profile fields (years of experience, certifications, location, work authorization) without ever opening the resume PDF, so an incomplete profile is invisible to internal sourcers.
  • Submit a clean, parseable resume in DOCX or simple PDF. SuccessFactors' parser populates the profile from your resume, and a poorly parsed resume creates a poorly populated profile, which then loses internal keyword searches you should be winning.
  • Use the exact phrasing from the job posting. SuccessFactors keyword matching is literal. 'Substation engineer' and 'substation engineering' both match in modern configurations, but 'switchyard design lead' will not match a query for 'substation engineer.' Mirror the requisition.
  • Set up a saved search and email alerts inside your candidate account. Dominion posts and closes requisitions on a rolling basis and time-to-apply matters, especially for line worker apprenticeships and high-demand engineering roles where strong applicant pools fill quickly.
  • If you withdraw or are not selected, your profile stays in the system. Apply again to a new requisition without creating a duplicate account; recruiters see all your application history and a duplicate account looks careless.
  • Complete the EEO and self-identification sections honestly. They do not affect screening, are stored separately from the requisition data, and skipping them sometimes blocks application submission entirely.

Interview Culture

Dominion's interview culture is recognizably utility-industry: structured, behavioral, safety-saturated, and oriented around long-term fit rather than rapid-fire technical pop quizzes.

The company explicitly teaches candidates the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result) on its careers site, which tells you exactly how to prepare. Every behavioral question should be answered with a concrete past example, with the actions you personally took (not 'we' as a team), and with a measurable result. The first round is typically a 20-to-30 minute recruiter phone screen covering work history, geographic flexibility, salary expectations, work authorization, and basic role fit. The second round is a hiring manager interview, usually 45 to 60 minutes, weighted toward behavioral questions about safety, judgment, teamwork, dealing with conflict, and decisions you have made under uncertainty. Engineering and IT candidates can expect role-specific technical questions: a distribution engineer might walk through fault current calculations or coordinate protective relaying; a cyber security candidate might discuss NERC CIP controls or incident response playbooks; a project manager might be asked how they recovered a schedule slip on a regulated project. The third round is often a panel of three to five people, including peers, a senior leader, and sometimes a representative from an adjacent department who would be a frequent collaborator. Panels at Dominion tend to be respectful and conversational rather than adversarial, but the volume of input means consensus matters and a single panelist's strong objection can sink an offer. Safety culture is not a phrase Dominion uses lightly. For any field, generation, or operations role, expect at least one full question dedicated to a time you stopped work for safety, escalated a concern, or refused to take a shortcut under schedule pressure. The 'right' answer is never that you found a clever workaround; it is that you stopped, escalated, and accepted the schedule cost. Candidates who treat safety as a checkbox routinely get screened out at this stage. For line worker, customer projects designer, and customer contact specialist roles, the HireVue Virtual Job Tryout (VJT) functions as an additional 'interview' before any human conversation. The VJT is a 45-minute multimedia assessment covering work-style scenarios, attention to detail, mechanical reasoning (for line workers), customer interaction simulations (for contact specialists), and self-description sections. There is no practice test, but Dominion publishes a detailed component breakdown for each role and the best preparation is a calm environment, a wired internet connection, and honest, considered answers rather than what you think the company wants to hear. For engineering, IT, finance, legal, and corporate roles in Richmond, the final interview is increasingly likely to include either a hybrid or in-person component at 120 Tredegar Street. Plan a Richmond visit if invited, dress business professional (suit for finance and legal, business casual is acceptable for most engineering and IT roles), and treat lunch or coffee with future peers as part of the interview. Dominion is a long-tenure employer and cultural fit assessments are taken seriously.

What Dominion Energy Looks For

  • A demonstrable safety mindset. Dominion is a high-hazard employer (high-voltage transmission, nuclear generation, natural gas distribution, offshore marine operations) and the question 'will this person make a safe decision when no one is watching' sits underneath every interview.
  • Long-term commitment. Average tenure at large investor-owned utilities runs well above the national average, and Dominion's benefits, pension contributions, and internal mobility are built around that expectation. Candidates who present as career-stable and curious about a 5-to-10 year arc inside the company outperform candidates who frame the role as a stepping stone.
  • Regulatory literacy. You do not need to be a lawyer, but you should understand that Dominion's revenues, capital plans, and project priorities are shaped by the Virginia State Corporation Commission, the South Carolina Public Service Commission, FERC, NERC, and the NRC. Showing awareness of how regulation shapes the business signals you understand the work.
  • Comfort with structured, document-heavy work. Utility engineering, operations, and project work runs on procedures, work packages, NERC compliance evidence, and audit trails. Candidates who chafe at documentation tend to wash out fast.
  • Field credibility for field roles. For lineworker, substation, gas operations, and generation operations roles, hiring managers want evidence you have actually done the physical work, climbed the structures, worked the rotation, and understood the safety stakes firsthand.
  • Project execution muscle for engineering and PM roles. CVOW, the Northern Virginia transmission buildout, gas system modernization, and the potential nuclear restart conversation all demand people who can run multi-year capital projects through environmental review, regulatory approval, procurement, construction, and commissioning without losing the schedule.
  • Cross-functional collaboration. Dominion's matrix structure means a single distribution engineer might work with planning, protection and controls, vegetation management, customer service, regulatory affairs, finance, and external contractors in a single week. Strong candidates show evidence of moving work across organizational seams.
  • Mission alignment. The company's stated purpose centers on delivering reliable, affordable, and increasingly clean energy. Candidates who can articulate why that mission matters to them, in their own words, and tie it to specific past work, consistently impress hiring managers more than candidates who recite the careers site verbatim.

Frequently Asked Questions

What ATS does Dominion Energy use for job applications?
Dominion Energy's careers site at careers.dominionenergy.com runs on SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. This is confirmed by the SuccessFactors CDN serving the site's static assets, the standard SuccessFactors Career Site Builder URL structure (/go/, /search/, /content/), and the SuccessFactors session cookie signature. The same SuccessFactors account works across every Dominion business unit and every requisition.
How long does Dominion Energy's hiring process take?
It varies significantly by role. Line worker apprenticeships and high-demand field positions can move in two to four weeks if testing is scheduled quickly. Corporate, engineering, and IT roles typically take four to eight weeks across recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, panel interview, testing if applicable, offer, and pre-employment medical and background screens. Nuclear roles at Surry and North Anna can take longer due to NRC unescorted access requirements. You can check status anytime by signing into your SuccessFactors candidate account.
What is the EEI test and how do I prepare for it?
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) test battery is the industry-standard pre-employment assessment for craft, skilled trades, and technical positions across most U.S. utilities, including Dominion. It is administered on-site and scheduled in advance after you have been selected for a role. Dominion provides free EEI practice tests on the careers site at the Pre-Employment Testing page (username: Dominion, password: Test., and you must enable cookies and disable pop-up blockers). Practice tests cover the same content as the real assessment but do not guarantee success. Plan to spend several hours over multiple sessions on the practice materials before test day.
What is the HireVue Virtual Job Tryout and which roles require it?
The Virtual Job Tryout (VJT) is a 45-minute online assessment used for Line Worker, Customer Projects Designer, and Customer Contact Specialist roles at Dominion. It measures attributes important for success in those specific positions through a mix of work-challenge scenarios, error-checking exercises, mechanical problem solving (for line workers), math problems (for designers), customer interaction simulations (for contact specialists), and self-description sections. There is no practice test available, but Dominion publishes a detailed component breakdown for each role on its careers site so you know exactly what to expect.
What jobs is Dominion hiring for in 2026?
The largest hiring drivers in 2026 are the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project (marine engineering, offshore project management, HVDC transmission, environmental compliance), the Northern Virginia data center load buildout (distribution and transmission planning engineers, substation engineers, large-customer interconnection specialists), the existing nuclear fleet at Surry and North Anna, line worker apprenticeships across Virginia and South Carolina, customer service and contact center roles, and corporate functions in Richmond covering finance, legal, regulatory, IT, and cyber security. Information Systems and Cyber Security are standalone job families on the careers portal, reflecting the scale of those organizations.
Does Dominion hire veterans? What support is offered?
Yes, actively. Dominion publicly states that one in five new hires is a veteran. Benefits include 100 percent salary differential for up to five years for deployed military employees, benefits coverage for deployed reservists and their dependents, paid time off for Guard and Reserve duty on top of vacation and sick leave, $5,000 Student Veteran Scholarship Awards for five interns or co-ops annually, and the Dominion Energy Veterans Network employee resource group. The careers site links O*NET and Troops to Energy Jobs as crosswalk tools to translate military experience to civilian utility roles.
What is the dress code for a Dominion Energy interview?
Business professional (suit) is the safe default for finance, legal, regulatory, and senior corporate interviews. Business casual is acceptable for most engineering, IT, and operations interviews, especially second-round technical conversations. For final-round panels at the Richmond corporate office at 120 Tredegar Street, lean business professional. For field role interviews at operations centers or service centers, business casual with closed-toe shoes is appropriate. When in doubt, ask your recruiter directly; Dominion recruiters are accustomed to the question and will tell you straight.
What is Dominion Energy's culture like?
Dominion's culture is recognizably utility-industry: stable, safety-driven, regulated, and oriented around multi-decade infrastructure work. The pace is more measured than a tech company and the documentation burden is heavier, but the trade-off is durable demand, strong benefits, defined retirement contributions, internal mobility across business units and geographies, and a clear sense of mission tied to keeping the lights on for 7 million customers. The company is also navigating real political and regulatory pressure (ratepayer affordability debates, fuel cost recovery, large-load customer impact, nuclear policy) which shows up in the day-to-day work of regulatory affairs, government relations, and customer-facing teams.
Where is Dominion Energy headquartered and what locations should I expect to work?
Corporate headquarters is at 120 Tredegar Street in Richmond, Virginia. Major operations hubs include Norfolk and the Hampton Roads area (offshore wind, regional grid planning), Cayce, South Carolina (Dominion Energy South Carolina headquarters), the Surry and North Anna nuclear plants in Virginia, and operations centers throughout Virginia and South Carolina. Some corporate roles offer hybrid arrangements; field, generation, and operations roles are on-site by definition.
Will I have to relocate for a job at Dominion Energy?
It depends on the role family. Line worker, substation, generation operations, gas operations, and customer service roles are tied to specific service territories and require living within reasonable commuting distance, often with on-call response time requirements. Engineering, IT, finance, legal, and most corporate roles are concentrated in Richmond with some hybrid flexibility. Offshore wind roles are concentrated in Hampton Roads. The job posting will state the location and any remote or hybrid eligibility, and recruiters will discuss relocation support during the offer stage for senior roles where it is offered.

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