Protection & Control Engineer

Description

This position includes the responsibility of performing protection and control engineering on various substation projects (from 34.5kV up to 765 kV voltage level) for local and domestic clients. This position will be responsible for all aspects of the engineering design oversight of multiple complex utility projects. This is not a supervisory position; however, the individual may need to direct the work of other engineers and/or designers on a project basis. While this is an office-based position, some travel may be required.

• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects
• Review/provide input to model changes as required for individual capital projects
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with client standards
• Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects
• Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location
• Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)
• Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items
• Review/design IED Data Maps
• Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)
• Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items
• Provide feedback on existing TM standards and help refine the design practices
• Review/design Protection settings and settings basis
• Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects
• Review/design SCADA point indexes
• Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists
• Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically the goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes.
• Review/create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.)

Requirements

This position is related to distributed generation energy projects in the utility sector. Experience in this area is required.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology
• 5+ years experience in utility projects
• Master's Degree
• Proficiency with National Electrical Safety Code & IEEE / ANSI Standards
• IEC 61850/Goose experience required
• PE or chartered engineer license
• Advanced knowledge of power systems protection, underground systems, and transmission & distribution systems
• 7+ years of relay/protection settings engineering experience

Benefits

• Work-Life Balance, Flexible Hours, and remote working days.
• $105k - $125k per year, depending on all candidate factors; such as qualifications, experience level, etc.
• Long term career path, including partner opportunity, in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environments

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance