Power System Protection Engineer III

Rosendin Electric 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. With over 100 years of history, the company emphasizes integrity, diversity, and a culture that empowers people to do their best while rewarding shareholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, specification, setting calculation, and coordination of protective relaying and relay control schemes.
• Develop protection schemes and relay settings for electrical equipment—including transformers, generators, transmission lines, feeders, and buses—in accordance with client requirements and system specifications.
• Develop and 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 studies such as 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 proper operation and 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 other 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 applicable 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 relevant experience in protection and relay settings for electric power systems supporting mission‑critical, commercial, and industrial facilities and substations.
• U.S.–based Professional Engineer (PE) registration (required).
• High proficiency with power‑system modeling tools such as ETAP, SKM, ASPEN, and CAPE.
• Applied knowledge of power‑system protection, including overcurrent/over‑undervoltage, transformer differential, high and low impedance busbar differential, generator protection, motor protection, and medium/high‑voltage line differential and distance protection.
• Strong experience developing protection schemes and relay settings for redundant power architectures supporting data centers and other 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.
• Strong computer skills with the ability to identify and apply appropriate software tools for complex engineering analysis.

Skills

• Advanced experience using Mathcad and Microsoft Excel for protective setting calculations.
• Working knowledge of NERC reliability standards, particularly PRC‑019/023/024/025/026/027.
• Experience with common communication protocols (DNP, SEL, MMS, Modbus, etc.).
• Working knowledge of IEC 61850 (GOOSE, MMS, SV) and its application in modern substations and mission‑critical facilities.
• Experience designing and supporting protection systems for redundant power topologies (e.g., N, N+1, 2N) 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 with a demonstrated interest in training and developing early‑career engineers.
• Demonstrated success managing complex protection‑engineering tasks within multidisciplinary, fast‑paced project environments.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Annual bonus program based on performance, profitability, and achievement
• 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

Travel

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

Working Conditions

• General work environment – sitting for long periods, standing, walking, typing, carrying, pushing, bending.
• Primarily indoor work with varying conditions such as fluorescent lighting and air conditioning.
• Noise level usually low to medium.
• Occasional lifting of up to 40 lb.
• Company complies with ADA and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled applicants and employees.