Sr. Substation Protection & Control Engineer

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is currently initiating a search for a Sr. Substation Protection & Control Engineer to join our East Energy team in client office in Binghamton, NY, WSP office in Horseheads, NY. The following locations will be considered: Buffalo, NY, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Portland, ME and Augusta, ME.

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 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

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

Compensation is subject to change based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

Contact Information

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