Relay Commissioning Engineer

Relay Commissioning Engineer 

Job Description 

EEE is an industry leader in safely delivering site electrical work and testing services to industrial and commercial facilities, phosphate and aggregate mining, electric utilities and municipalities in Florida. EEE is a full service, vertically integrated contractor offering turn-key, complete project capabilities. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Perform commissioning, functional testing, and troubleshooting of protective relays (electromechanical, digital, microprocessor-based) for high-voltage substations and industrial electrical systems. 

• Validate and test protective schemes including overcurrent, distance, differential, transformer, generator, bus, and feeder protection. 

• Interpret and verify design drawings, schematics, logic diagrams, and relay settings. 

• Conduct relay configuration and programming using vendor-specific software (e.g., SEL, GE, ABB, Siemens). 

• Perform end-to-end relay testing using secondary injection test sets (e.g., Omicron, Doble, Megger). 

• Document test procedures and results in detailed commissioning reports. 

• Coordinate with engineering, construction, and utility teams to ensure successful integration of protection systems. 

• Support FAT (Factory Acceptance Testing) and SAT (Site Acceptance Testing) activities. 

• Perform function testing of substation control circuits on relay panel, transformers & circuit breakers. 

• Develop relay macros and testing routines with confirmation of proper protection and control design. 

• Perform end-to-end relay testing using relay test software, and analyze the operation of the relay based on the fault type run. 

• Develop written standard commissioning, testing and maintenance procedures for protective relaying. 

• Examine relay settings and logic equations for confirmation of system operation in accordance with design. 

• Develop isolation restoration procedures for a construction outage. 

• Lead safety briefings on job site. 

Required Qualifications 

• 3+ years of hands on experience installing, maintaining, testing & repairing protective relays in transmission, generation or distribution level substations. 

• Ability to develop written test procedures for transmission, generation and distribution substation protection. 

• Ability to develop relay test plans necessary to test the relays per EPS and customer specifications. 

• Lead investigations of electrical related issues, including root cause an