Cortez - Senior Electrical Engineer

Position Description

At Nevada Gold Mines, our vision is to be the world's most valued gold mining business by finding, developing, and operating the best assets with the best people.

Our engineering team is looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer - Protection & Power Systems at our Cortez operation. The successful candidate will serve as the site technical lead for electrical protection systems, including protective relay settings, device coordination, short-circuit studies, arc flash analysis, fault/event review, and commissioning support for distribution, transmission, and generation systems up to 120kV. This role will help ensure safe, selective, reliable, and maintainable protection across mine power systems while supporting capital projects, utility coordination, and operational troubleshooting.

At Nevada Gold Mines, we are committed to a safe work environment, sending every person home safe and healthy every day and leaving a sustainable legacy in our host communities. We offer a generous benefits package that includes competitive medical, dental, and vision plans with national provider networks, a 401k retirement plan with employer contribution, paid time off, company-sponsored medical clinics, a company match share purchase program, and much more.

• Lead protective device coordination, short-circuit, load flow, motor starting, grounding, and arc flash studies using ETAP or similar power system analysis software.
• Develop, review, maintain, and document protective relay settings, time-current coordination curves, logic diagrams, control schemes, and protection philosophies for electrical systems up to 120kV.
• Analyze relay event records, fault reports, oscillography, breaker operations, and protection misoperations; identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Provide technical ownership for SEL, GE, and related protection platforms, including AcSELerator Quick Set, GE Enervista, RTAC interfaces, and protection-related SCADA points.
• Support commissioning, acceptance testing, and energization of relays, breakers, switch gear, transformers, generators, and protection/control circuits.
• Maintain protection documentation, settings files, as-left records, study models, one-lines, three-lines, and management-of-change records in accordance with site standards.
• Demonstrate advanced technical knowledge and troubleshooting skills in power distribution, transmission, and generation systems, ensuring safe and reliable system performance.
• Serve as the primary technical liaison with internal stakeholders and electrical utility companies regarding protection requirements, coordination, power system performance, compliance audits, and troubleshooting support.
• Review engineering consultant and contractor deliverables for capital projects, including one-lines, three-lines, protection studies, relay settings, control schematics, test procedures, and study reports.
• Provide oversight for construction and commissioning of power system-related capital projects, ensuring compliance with design specifications, protection requirements, safety standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead maintenance and reliability initiatives for power distribution switch gear, transformers, generators, protective relays, breakers, and associated control systems.
• Coordinate with and manage external contractors and consultants involved in electrical system projects, ensuring adherence to scope, deliverables, timelines, budget, quality standards, and site safety requirements.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, cost reduction, reliability improvement, and protection system standardization within power system operations.
• Oversee power system-related projects from initiation to completion, including scope definition, scheduling, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Enforce strict adherence to safety protocols, environmental regulations, and industry standards in all power system activities, promoting a culture of safety and environmental stewardship.
• Ensure that all power system initiatives and projects align with Nevada Gold Mines core values and objectives, promoting efficiency, sustainability, and operational excellence.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license or successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam preferred.
• Minimum of five years of electrical power systems engineering experience required, preferably…