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. As one of the world’s leading professional services firms, WSP now brings world-class expertise in power delivery, power generation, and project management with the recent acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. Our vision is to be the preeminent pure-play global consulting firm for the world’s energy transition.
Responsibilities
- Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design.
- Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal).
- Ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes.
- 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 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.).
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.
Skills
- Highly capable self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.
- Ability to work independently and provide guidance and leadership to junior team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
- Developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
- Ability to assertively direct others in the field such as subcontractors and others to consistently complete tasks safely and efficiently.
Benefits
- WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
- These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; 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
This role is subject to and contingent upon client approval of candidates put forth for consideration by WSP.
Contact Information
For more information about this opportunity, please contact [Contact Name] at [Contact Email] or [Contact Phone Number].
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, national origin, or veteran status.