Senior Protection & Control Design Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Protection and Control Design Engineer who will independently evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria, using judgment in making adaptations and modifications. This candidate should have 6+ years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of electrical engineers on protection and control design projects for transmission, generation, and distribution by helping put together protection and control drawings, relay settings, coordination studies, reports, etc.
• Interact with clients and take a leadership role in varying aspects of different projects.
• Be involved with project site evaluations, preparing engineering scope documents and writing technical equipment specifications as needed.
• Create relay one-lines, three-lines, control schematics, wiring diagrams, relay panel arrangements, and cable schedules, etc.
• Design AC/DC control schematics.
• Create technical specifications for major equipment, such as power transformers, power circuit breakers, control house, and other high-voltage substation related materials.
• Provide engineering, construction, and testing & commissioning support for projects.
• Perform engineering calculations such as voltage drop, CT burden and saturation, lighting, short circuit, etc.
• Apply field mark-ups of projects as-built drawings with minimal supervision.
• Assist project manager to develop scope of work and conceptual design for the projects.
• Work with the engineering team to meet project specifications, cost control, and schedule objectives.
• Design protection schemes for distance, overcurrent, breaker failure, line current differential, bus and transformer differential.
• Design communication protection schemes such as POTT, DCB, PUTT, BFTT, etc.
• Review project schedules and work with project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule.
• Properly use the document management system.
• Apply corporate standard engineering practices.

Qualifications:

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience, and must be registered as a Professional Engineer (PE)
• 6+ years of relative work experience in developing protection and control designs for transmission, distribution, and generation systems.
• Experience designing protection panels using SEL microprocessor relays for line, transformer, bus, feeder, based protection, and control systems.
• Knowledge of relay protection and control design fundamentals such as distance, overcurrent, breaker failure, line current differential, bus and transformer differential.
• Proficiency in designing communication protection schemes such as POTT, DCB, PUTT, BFTT, etc.
• Ability to design relaying one-lines, three-lines, control schematics, wiring/interconnection diagrams, and cable schedules.
• Knowledge of relevant codes and standards such as NEC, NESC, IEEE, NEMA and ANSI
• Familiarity with ASPEN modeling, relay coordination, short circuit studies, setting microprocessor-based relays, or field commissioning of electrical systems.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact directly with clients.