Utility Foreman - Relay

Utility Foreman
- Relay

Utility Foreman
- Relay is primarily responsible for supervising and performing installations, maintenance and testing of substation protective systems and SCADA systems. The relay foreman will supervise emergency activities associated with the restoration of relay and substation equipment. The relay foreman promotes safe work behaviors and actions from all assigned crews. The relay foreman provides a professional point of contact for contractors and internal/external customers.

The relay foreman must be available for callouts and extended hours.

Supervise and perform all aspects of installation and maintenance of substation protective systems

Supervise and perform all aspects of installation and maintenance of substation SCADA systems

Supervise and organize emergency activities associated with the restoration of relay and/or substation equipment

Provide field training to relay crews on a wide array of protective devices, schemes and philosophies

Assist crews in performing relay and SCADA testing and commissioning

Provide a professional point of contact for contractors, internal/external customers, and design groups

Ensures compliance with Configuration Management and system protection regulatory procedures and processes

Facilitate and support activities associated with the realization of departmental and company goals

Assure a safe work environment exists and actively and progressively require safe work behaviors and actions from all assigned crews

Minimum Education:

High School Diploma or equivalent or related work experience. Preferred: 2-year technical degree in Electronics/Instrumentation

Minimum Experience:

At least 5 years of experience in the electric utility industry, or in a related industrial field Preferred: 5-10 years of experience in electrical substation maintenance or construction

Experience in leading construction and maintenance of transmission relay protection schemes

Experience with leading on-call/after-hours response to substation equipment and line outages on the transmission system

Experience in storm restoration of transmission substations

Able to work with little direction with a high level of organization to accomplish multiple projects simultaneously

Must be available for 24-hour callout and extended hours

Must be certified and able to perform substation switching

Proficient in transmission relay protection schemes including:
Power Line Zone Distance Protection, Permissive and Blocking Schemes, Transformer and Bus Differential Protection, Fiber Optic Communication Schemes, Power Line Carrier Schemes

Proficient with RTU SCADA programming (GE: D20, D25, D400 ; SEL RTAC)

Proficient with microprocessor based relay applications ( SEL Engineering, GE, ABB)

This position is designated as a Safety Sensitive position and is subject to mandatory pre-employment and random drug testing.