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We offer Salary + Bonus, Generous PTO, 401K with Company Match, Company Paid Health Benefit
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Salary $140,000 – $170,000 per year
A Bit About Us
We are a leading provider of services to the energy industry. We are seeking a Lead Protection and Control Engineer (to join our growing team.
Description
The Lead Protection & Control Engineer will develop relay settings and technical design support for the relay engineering group. . The Lead Engineer is responsible for scheduling, engineering labor estimates, relay design estimates, relay settings, communication design, and compliance.
What You’ll Do
- Plan, coordinate, assign, and schedule relay design work tasks including project scope development, cost estimating, proposal development, design preparation, and assembling relay packages for commissioning and testing.
- Lead efforts in the development and implementation of standards for relay equipment, material, design, testing, and construction requirements for transmission substations.
- Implement the company design processes and procedures and use computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) software applications to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency in the station design process.
- Implement the development of relay material specifications, selection, evaluation of materials, and failure analysis to determine the root cause.
- Provide input to budget development related to station design and material procurement for estimators. Aid in cost variance analysis post-project completion to improve estimates.
- Work closely with other engineering groups to coordinate all solar and battery storage engineering aspects.
- Act as Owners Engineer for design work performed by outside consultants. Responsibility includes evaluating the design per scope of work, standards, and error rate.
- Act as a design engineer for design for in-house projects for the substation group.
- Develop and perform internal and external QAQC (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) for relay settings.
- Actively participate in industry forums, conferences, and other company initiatives to support our mission.
- Review and seal drawing sets, relay settings, and associated reports.
- Manage direct reports and the resourcing loading of those reports efficiently.
- Analyze disturbance records and develop relay-specific solutions as required.
- Represent us as a subject matter expert in customer-facing calls.
Why join us?
- Salary + Bonus
- Great Health Benefits
- 401k with company match
- Employee Equity Participation Plan
- Generous PTO plan
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Qualifications
- 5+ years of related electric utility engineering experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of electric system components and related communications and protection functions.
- Demonstrated knowledge of relay protection schemes, inverter-based generator protection, DTT, utility coordination, and communication protocols.
- Demonstrated knowledge of generator stability and dynamic operation analysis. Ability to perform study/or produce dynamic simulation files preferred.
- Experience with performing post-fault event analysis preferred.
- Demonstrated expertise in system modeling, relay settings, and coordination studies using ETAP, PSSE, CAPE, ASPEN, and PSCAD.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze performance, process improvements, and standardization activities.
- Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written skills.
- Flexible and adaptable commercial agility; ability to reorder critical design projects based on new commercial requirements under tight deadlines and sometimes changing requirements.
- Demonstrated strong organizational skills.
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical and computer engineering required.
- Professional Engineer License desired
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