Engineer - Engineer Sr (Protection & Control)

About the role

You’ll apply your knowledge in engineering design, project management and maintenance of utility systems. You’ll contribute to knowledge sharing initiatives such as training programs and documentation development to enhance team capabilities. You’ll apply your proven ability to access and analyze and recommend enhancements to business processes. You’ll work independently with minimal guidance and collaboratively in an inclusive team environment. You’ll follow policies, practices, standards, and rules of AEP as well as those regulations and procedures required. You’ll provide training and guidance to co-workers in need. You’ll plan and oversee engineering projects from conception to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements. You’ll coordinate effectively with peers, external contractors, and regulatory authorities to ensure project success.

Responsibilities

• Perform and review relay protection and control activities for 4kV through 765kV electrical substation projects.
• Prepare and review P&C scopes for electric substation projects.
• Prepare and/or review P&C engineering settings and designs for electrical substation projects.
• Prepare and review relay setting calculation sheets, setting files and other relay setting deliverables for substation projects.
• Perform area protection studies and recommend settings for existing and new transmission line and station protection schemes.
• Model transmission system impedances and perform short circuit fault studies.
• Perform activities related to NERC P&C standards; prepare and review PRC-023, FAC-008 etc. NERC required documents.
• Review, evaluate and provide P&C comments and recommendations on transmission system planning proposals.
• Coordinate with transmission customers and interconnected companies on associated protection issues.
• Provide engineering support for project installation, commissioning, checkout and troubleshooting.
• Provide general P&C technical support, as needed, including technical interfaces with Telecomm, Operations, Transmission Region Operations, Station Engineering, Transmission Planning and Project Management.
• Peer review and approve P&C related work of other team members.
• Manage, oversee and peer review P&C related work of outsource companies.
• Identify, clarify, resolve, and initiate solutions to protection and control problems through analysis of interruption reports and fault recorder records.
• Contribute to development of system-wide protection standards for transmission and distribution station protection, metering and control applications.
• Participate in project scheduling, resource planning, and cost control for assigned projects.

Qualifications

Engineer Assc (Grade 6) – Entry level for new graduates with a Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET‑accredited program; passing the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam is encouraged and preferred.

Engineer (Grade 7) – Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET‑accredited program plus two or more years of related engineering experience; a Master's degree from an ABET‑accredited program may be considered for entry; a Bachelor's in Engineering Technology satisfies the degree requirement if a certified Professional Engineer (PE) license is obtained.

Engineer Sr (Grade 8) – Typically requires four or more years of related engineering experience with a Bachelor's degree from an ABET‑accredited program; or two years of related experience with a Master's or PhD from an ABET‑accredited program;