Senior Electrical Engineer - Power System Protection

About the role

The ideal candidate will function as a technical subject matter expert and specialist, providing guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and B&Veatch policies. They will apply knowledge and ensure compliance with B&Veatch quality program, establish related processes, and promote a culture that is conducive to quality.

Responsibilities

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and B&Veatch policies.
• May own, maintain, update, or develop engineering standards and guides.
• Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects or disciplines.
• Applies knowledge and ensures compliance with B&Veatch quality program.
• Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality.
• Supports continuous improvement, change management and risk management efforts.
• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects.
• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
• Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems.
• Responsible for ensuring project teams delegate appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff.
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
• Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects.
• Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects.
• Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.
• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects.
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects.
• Works to identify future client needs and how to better position B&Veatch for the future.
• May offer other services to the client.
• Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities.
• Serves as the technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field.
• Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems.
• Typically supports multiple projects on very complex technical challenges.
• Typical roles include being recognized as an industry expert, participating in professional societies by presenting papers, acting as a section lead for a large or complex specialty area, an engineering consultant for larger scale projects.
• May support the chief engineers or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes.
• Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions.
• May participate in compensation management, succession planning, disciplinary actions, employee relations and workforce planning.
• Actively mentors lower level and mid level professionals and identifies successors to train in the specifics of their role.
• Supervises work of others. Responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of their subordinates.

  Qualifications

  • 11-15 years of experience in Transmission, Distribution, or Power Generation industry.
  • Previous working experience with Protection & Control design concepts including one-lines, three-lines, schematics, wiring, et cetera.
  • 11 years of experience in development of protective relay settings.
  • Significant experience with commonly utilized system modeling software programs (ASPEN, CAPE, CYME, ETAP, SKM, et cetera).
  • Significant knowledge and application of the predominant protection schemes and philosophies which are encountered in Transmission, Distribution, and Renewable Collector Substations.
  • Significant experience with Mathcad and Excel software for protective setting calculations.
  • Experience with commonly utilized communication protocols (DNP, SEL, MMS, Modbus, et cetera).
  • Knowledge of IEC 61850 (GOOSE, MMS, SV) and its implementation.
  • Knowledge and application of NERC-PRC standards and other commonly utilized industry standards.
  • Proven ability to independently develop written communication and to facilitate coordination with team members and clients.
  • Proven ability to work cooperatively in a team environment.
  • Proven ability to lead small projects including management of project schedules, budgets, and staffing.
  • Significant experience supporting proposal development- including, scope of work, level of work, engineering estimates, schedule.
  • Strong leaderships skills, with desire to train and develop early career and/or inexperienced professionals.
  • Significant experience functioning in a QC/QA capacity.
  • Active Professional Engineer (PE) License in State of Residence or Project Needs.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work.
  • Minimum of 11 years related work experience.
  • Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.
  • Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.