Staff Electrical Engineer - Protection Applications

Staff Electrical Engineer - Protection Applications

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Position may include following assignments:

• Executes complex assignments requiring the use of advanced electrical engineering techniques, resulting in the development of new or improved processes, equipment, and/or technological methods.
• Develop and evaluate plans for major projects. Assess feasibility or soundness of proposed applications when data is insufficient or testing is advisable.
• Coordinate departmental or divisional project studies, reports, or project design assignments.
• Responsible for performing power system studies and system protection settings coordination on various projects (up to 500-kV voltage level).
• Develop design basis documentation for protective settings and generate native relay configuration files.
• Provide technical guidance to the project team, conduct design reviews, and support quality control.
• Act as primary contact for both internal and external client-side communication.
• Assist project manager to develop scope of work and conceptual design for the projects.
• Train, guide, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Support business development and marketing initiatives

Required Experience:

• Requires a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a directly related field plus (3) years of experience in electrical systems studies in the electric utility or industrial power distribution industry.
• Will accept a Master's degree plus (2) years of related experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree plus (3) years of related experience.

Preferred Experience /

Skills:

• A Professional Engineer licensure is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of the predominant protection schemes and philosophies that are encountered in Transmission, Distribution and Renewable Collector Substations.
• Application of industry standards for the protection of system equipment, including power busses, power transformers, HV/MV circuit breakers, capacitor banks, reactors, transmission lines, and distribution feeders.
• Power systems modeling and protective relay coordination analysis using ASPEN One Liner or Siemens CAPE, ETAP, SKM, CYME software.
• Designing calculations, including short circuit calculation, current transformer performance and ratio selection, over-current element coordination, zone-distance element selection and coordination, and relay loadability calculation.
• Developing native relay setting files using SEL's AcSELerator/Grid configurator and GE's Enervista and similar vendor software programs.
• Providing engineering support with construction and commissioning activities for substations.
• Leading multiple engineering teams on engineering design and scope for multiple projects.
• Knowledge of FERC and NERC requirements as they pertain to electric utility reliability requirements is a plus.
• Knowledge of IEC
  61850 and its implementation is a plus.