Lead Protection and Control Engineer (Energy Industry) - Jobot

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

Job Details

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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