Early Career Electrical Engineer; ESSP

Job Description

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Early Career Electrical Engineering (ESSP) for our Freeport, Maine office. The following locations will also be considered:
Orlando, Florida;
Fort Mill, North Carolina;
Ann Arbor Michigan; and Syracuse, New York.

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Early Career Electrical Engineering (ESSP) for our Freeport, Maine office. The following locations will also be considered:
Orlando, Florida;
Fort Mill, North Carolina;
Ann Arbor Michigan; and Syracuse, New York.

Be involved in projects with our Power Delivery ESSP department and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

The successful applicant will be responsible for performing electrical studies and/or developing and troubleshooting supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems for utility and industrial/commercial clients. Applicable power systems primarily include conventional and renewable generation facilities, substations, transmission systems, and distribution systems.

WSP brings global expertise in power delivery, power generation, and program management—anchored by the acquisition of POWER Engineers, Inc. TRC Companies have now joined WSP, deepening our power practice and expanding our energy advisory and intelligent grid services. We're partnering with clients to shape how energy systems evolve around the world—and we need your help.

• Protective Relaying: short circuit and symmetricalcomponentanalysis, time-current coordination, protection scheme and criteria development, relay settings calculation, integration with SCADA systems, NERC compliance, and arc flash analysis. Applicable software:
  AcSELerator
  
  Quickset (SEL-5030), AcSELerator
  
  Architect, GEEnervista, ASPENO
  
  neliner, SKM-PTW, ETAP, RSCAD/RTDSBullet 2 related to impact and responsibilities of the role
• Power System Planning Studies: steady-state real and reactive power flow including outage contingencies, generation interconnect feasibility, P-V and Q-V analysis for voltage stability margins, dynamic stability performance, automation of large batch simulations, working with models from NERC regional entities (WECC, MRO, SERC etc.), NERC compliance. Applicable Software: PSS/E, PSLF, Power World, Python Scripting
• Design Studies: substation grounding, corona and electric and magnetic fields, insulation coordination (lightning, switching surge, and contamination performance), transient (time domain) simulation, power quality (harmonics, voltage flicker, over/under voltage, etc.), motor starting, AC interference (transmission line interaction with railroads and pipelines). Applicable Software: CDEGS, ATP-EMTP, PSCAD
• Networking and Communications: design and configure network and communication paths for Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), protective relays, meters, Human Machine Interface (HMIs), PLC’s and other SCADA system equipment; develop basic specifications for fiber optic, microwave, power line carrier, or radio communication paths; travel to project sites to troubleshoot and commission network and communication systems. Applicable network and communication protocols: DNP, Modbus, SEL Communication Protocol, Goose Messaging, IEC 61850
• Logic and Control Systems: develop and implement logic and control schemes for remote and local operation of power system equipment; develop programs on various platforms for implementation of these schemes; travel to project sites to test and commission the control schemes. Applicable Logic and Control Platforms: SEL RTAC, Orion, Cooper SMP, GE-D20
• Data Acquisition:
  Prepare points lists of all data to be transferred between control centers and controlled apparatus, assign and…