Power System Protection Engineer III

Rosendin offers meaningful career growth, a true sense of ownership, and the opportunity to work on high‑profile projects with an industry‑leading, employee‑owned electrical contractor. The company emphasizes integrity, diversity, and a culture that empowers people to do their best.

Responsibilities

• Design, specify, calculate settings, and coordinate protective relaying and relay control schemes.
• Develop protection schemes and relay settings for transformers, generators, transmission lines, feeders, and buses in accordance with client requirements and system specifications.
• Configure protection relay settings, including overcurrent, differential, distance, and backup protection relays.
• Perform coordination studies to ensure proper relay operation and minimize system downtime during fault conditions.
• Use power system modeling tools (e.g., ETAP, SKM, CAPE, ASPEN) to simulate and analyze protection systems, fault scenarios, and equipment ratings.
• Conduct fault analysis, short‑circuit, AC and DC arc‑flash, and harmonics studies.
• Support field testing, commissioning, and validation of protection relays and control systems to ensure compliance with project requirements.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot relay protection issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and develop corrective actions for mis‑operations or unexpected trips.
• Collaborate with engineers, project managers, and clients to ensure successful implementation of protection systems.
• Prepare technical documentation, including relay settings, test reports, system protection studies, and coordination diagrams.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., IEEE, IEC, NEC, NFPA 70E, NERC).
• Act as a proactive technical leader, guiding project teams, solving complex protection challenges, and supporting project execution from design through commissioning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a power‑systems focus.
• 6+ years of experience in protection and relay settings for electric power systems supporting mission‑critical, commercial, and industrial facilities and substations.
• U.S. Professional Engineer (PE) registration.
• High proficiency with power system modeling tools such as ETAP, SKM, ASPEN, and CAPE.
• Applied knowledge of protection for overcurrent/over‑undervoltage, transformer differential, high/low impedance busbar differential, generator, motor, and medium/high‑voltage line differential and distance protection.
• Strong experience developing protection schemes for redundant power architectures (e.g., N, N+1, 2N) supporting data centers and mission‑critical facilities.
• High proficiency in relay settings development and programming for SEL, Siemens, and GE protective relays.
• Experience managing relay settings files using vendor software such as SEL AcSELerator, GE Enervista, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop technical teams.
• Strong leadership, written and oral communication, and organizational skills.
• Advanced computer skills for complex engineering analysis.

Additional Requirements

• Advanced experience using Mathcad and Microsoft Excel for protective setting calculations.
• Working knowledge of NERC reliability standards (e.g., PRC‑019/023/024/025/026/027).
• Familiarity with communication protocols such as DNP, SEL, MMS, Modbus, etc.
• Working knowledge of IEC 61850 (GOOSE, MMS, SV) and its application in modern substations.
• Experience designing and supporting protection systems for redundant power topologies common to data‑center electrical systems.
• Proven ability to lead small to mid‑size projects, managing schedules, budgets, staffing, and technical execution.
• Experience supporting proposal development, including scope of work, engineering estimates, and schedule.
• Strong leadership interest in training and developing early‑career engineers.
• Demonstrated success managing complex protection engineering tasks in fast‑paced, multidisciplinary project environments.

Travel

Up to 50 % travel (does not include local field visits).

Working Conditions

General work environment includes prolonged sitting, standing, walking, typing, carrying, pushing, and bending. Work is primarily indoors with varying conditions such as fluorescent lighting and air conditioning. Noise level is usually low to medium. Occasional lifting of up to 40 lb may be required.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Annual performance‑based bonus program
• 17 PTO days per year plus 10 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Term life, AD&D, and voluntary life insurance
• Disability income protection insurance
• Pre‑tax flexible spending plans (health and dependent care)
• Charitable giving match through the Rosendin Foundation