Protection & Controls Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide power systems engineering expertise in protection design and coordination analyses on the transmission systems.
• Design protection systems including overcurrent, distance, differential, communication-aided protection, and wide area protection coordination.
• Focus on system protection schemes and studies involving generation interconnection protection and NERC PRC compliance ensuring adequate safety and reliability of the bulk electric system.
• Perform system protection and coordination studies involving transmission generation interconnection protection schemes.
• Provide guidance and recommendations for system protection philosophies and standards to clients and stakeholders.
• Apply system protection engineering practices and principles in one or more of the following areas: transmission lines and buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, grounding transformers, generators, and communication-assisted protection schemes.
• Perform system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit, equipment duty, relay device coordination studies and root cause analysis.
• NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027.
• Substation and transmission line design experience is of great interest.
• Develop protective relay and device settings for transmission and sub-transmission systems ranging from 69 kV - 500 kV.
• Review protective relay operations and system outages, identifying system disturbances and providing resolutions to operational control problems.
• Model transmission system elements within planning and operational software to identify expected impacts under various scenarios.
• Communicate challenges, lessons learned, and critical information to team members to ensure operational success.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and develop corresponding modification plans and justification.
• Communicate with a variety of work groups to improve transparency and ensure the overall success of the project.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, flow charts, whitepapers, working papers, and other materials necessary for the continuity and success of the project.
• Develop communication materials and provide status updates to technical leaders, project teams, or affected stakeholder groups.
• Lead process improvement efforts identifying opportunities to enhance organizational efficiencies focused on maximizing team bandwidth while ensuring quality and timeliness of client deliverables.
• Support business development activities including development of RFP responses & scope of work statements for clients, outlining EPE deliverables and projected completion dates.

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Engineer required. (Texas, Illinois, or California)
• 8+ years experience in system protection and control required
• Strong technical foundation in transmission power systems protection and planning
• Experience with ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, Powerbase, SEL Quickset, and GE Enervista UR Setup
• Experience working with SEL equipment, software, and/or developing programming files using SEL Quickset
• Experience with CYME, Synergi, Windmil/LightTable or other distribution power flow software is an add on
• Exposure to transmission protection design guidelines and philosophies is preferred
• Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE guidelines for designing and studies of transmission system protection
• Communication and Teamwork skills strongly preferred
• Versatility and ability to adapt to changing priorities