Senior Protection & Control Engineer

Job Description

The Senior Protection & Control (P&C) and System Engineer works on T&D substations for AC, HVDC and FACTS projects with designers, peer engineers & leaders.They are responsible for the review of P&C designs developed by the project teams and confirm compliance with project specifications and applicable Standards. The Engineer should actively work on mentoring the secondary design team and acts as its main technical authority while also representing the company with external standards committees (e.g. IEEE). The Senior Protection & Control Engineer is an established leader in their respective engineering team. The Engineer drives business strategy through detailed technical and economic understanding of the marketplace and takes the initiative to provide customers with the best solutions that positively impact business. Accountable for the proper performance of design in matter of engineering cost time, and quality. While the role is primarily in the review of designs prepared by other team member, the Senior Protection & Control Engineer may be identified as project engineering manager for small to medium size project, which are highly secondary engineering focused.

The Senior Protection & Control Engineer shall continuously update themselves with new technology, have a mindset of continuous learning, consistent with grid transition needs, and provide technical direction to the team. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Essential Responsibilities:

As the Senior Protection & Control Engineer, you will:

• Ultimately be responsible to ensure high quality design of protection schemes for all kinds of T&D substations, Data Centers, Industrial, BESS applications including one-lines, three-lines, AC / DC schematics, and relay settings.

• Review, propose optimization and seal (P.E. stamp) protection and control designs prepared by himself or other team members. The same will apply to single line diagram and detailed design for auxiliary systems (Diesel Generator, Low Voltage Switchgear, AC/DC distribution panels, batteries and battery chargers)

• Responsible for leading and coordinating all P&C technical aspects of AC power substation projects, especially ensuring successful and safe operation of power system equipment.

• Review power system load flow studies, fault studies, relay setting coordination, and transient studies performed by other agencies

• Develop or review outage, cut-over, and testing procedures

• Evaluate the interoperability, control features, and communication / protocol aspects of IED’s serving as protection relays to provide an integrated solution including SCADA, Cyber Security and Telecom needs.

• Be familiar with IEC 61850 process and system bus architecture and its implementation for substations

• Interface with internal and external team members such as Protection and Control Engineers, Lead Engineers, Project Engineers, Electrical Designers, Civil Engineers, Physical Designers, Draftsmen, Project managers, Sourcing, and support organizations

• Interface with customer technical representatives to ensure smooth coordination with all stakeholders

• Review and analysis post fault records in order to confirm correct operation of the system design

• Lead or support factory acceptance testing and site testing & commissioning and demonstrate strong Safety vision and accountability.

• Work on development of proposals including: writing and/or reviewing technical specifications, estimating design man-hours and materials, supporting sourcing for vendor quotations, and the development of clarifications and exceptions as well as technical responses and performing technical validation.

• Extensive experience in technical problem solving and Lean techniques. Mastering of secondary engineering discipline (process, tools and technical aspects)

• Work on development of high-quality design templates and tools to support the secondary design engineering team and the business.Define processes, procedures, perform RCA's (Root Cause Analysis), perform corrective actions, and validate process control. Support quality initiatives including aspects of ISO9002

• Demonstrate leadership behaviors of acting with humility, lead with transparency and deliver with focus

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Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university or college

• Must have P.E. License

• Minimum 10 years of experience in system protection schemes, relay selection, primary equipment interface requirements, operational analysis, communication systems and maintenance practices for transmission, distribution, and generation protection applications at both AIS and GIS substations.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in design reviews and technical mentoring

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time, including international, for meetings and on-site commissioning tests for customer installations and comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies

• Must be legally authorized to work in US and Canada for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen.