Sr. Substation Protection & Control Engineer

About the role

The candidate will be involved in projects with our Energy Team and be a part of a growing organization that meets our client’s objectives and solves their challenges.

Responsibilities

• Work under mentorship and guidance of the Supervising Engineer.
• Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design.
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Client standards.
• Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects.
• Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes).
• Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings.
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items.
• Provide feedback to Owner on existing standards and help refine the Owner’s design practices.
• Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Owner.
• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects.
• Review/design SCADA point indexes.
• Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects.
• Review/design Protection settings and settings basis.
• Review/design IED Data Maps.
• Create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.).
• Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists.
• Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation.
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items.
• Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.).
• Make technical computations and calculations involving the application of electrical engineering principles, understanding plans and specifications, and making factual comparisons to the appropriate regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years of relevant post education experience in electrical engineering, power systems protection and control.
• IET Certification.
• IEC 61850/GOOSE experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings.
• Paid sick leave, paid vacation (or other personal time), paid parental leave, and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Pay

Expected Salary (all locations): $83,200 - $145,530

Schedule

Flexible schedule to meet project-specific requirements.