Power Systems Protection Engineer

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Transform the everyday with us!

Our Wendell, NC headquarters for Siemens Electrification & Automation delivers energy distribution systems and solutions nationwide. We are excited to announce the opening of our new office in Boulder - CO, expanding our presence to better serve customers in the western region. We power today’s grids and invest in future grid innovations.

We are looking for Power System Protection Engineers. This position will be based in Denver, Colorado.

You’ll make a difference by:

• Design, configure, and test protective relay systems for power systems and substations, ensuring high reliability and integrity of protection and control schemes for medium and high voltage substations systems.
• Develop and implement protection and control schemes that align with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and customer-specific needs.
• Design and/or support elaboration of Control Logic Diagrams, Signal Lists, Functional Design Specifications documents during design phase of the project.
• Prepare and execute Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), Site Acceptance Tests (SAT), and set up testing environments for customer projects.
• Prepare and execute (SAT) and commissioning scripts for customer projects.
• Be one of our primary customer interfaces, including troubleshooting and commissioning support.
• Provide technical support throughout the project lifecycle, including design, implementation, and commissioning phases.

You’ll win us over by having the following qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical/electronics/computer science engineering.
• Three years of engineering experience in power protection for electrical substations.
• Ability to read and fully understand DC and AC schematics, three and one-line diagrams for Medium and/or High Voltage substations systems.
• Knowledge of at least one of the relay products Siemens, GE, SEL, ABB, and others relay/automation products and associated software.
• Experience with at least one of the most common communication protocols such as IEC
  61850, DNP, Modbus, IEC
  103, IEC
  101, IEC
  104, Profinet, Profibus.
• Factory and Site testing experience in protection and control systems
• Around 50-75% of nationwide travel is expected depending on project assignments and requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting protection relays applications for low, medium and high voltage substations.
• Proficiency with Siemens digital protection and control relays, particularly the Siprotec5 family.
• Hands on experience with engineering software for Siprotec5 such as Digsi 5.
• Programming skills and familiarity with one or more industry standard relay configuration tools, such as SEL AcSELerator, SEL Architect, Hitachi PCM
  600, MiCOM or GE Ener Vista UR.

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