Senior Protection and Control Engineer

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The High Voltage Engineering team provides pre-construction, construction, and commissioning engineering support for high-voltage facilities associated with renewable energy power plants, including solar, wind, and battery energy storage projects. These facilities range from 35 kV through 500 kV. We are seeking a dynamic, collaborative, and technically strong Senior Protection and Control Engineer to support high-voltage substation projects. This role is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with strong protection and control expertise who also values collaboration with EPC partners, power utilities, and internal project teams.

The selected engineer will lead protection and control activities from design development through execution, commissioning, and post-energization support for greenfield and brownfield substations across AES Clean Energy projects.

• Lead protection and control engineering activities for AES Clean Energy high-voltage substations supporting solar, wind, and battery energy storage projects, with voltage levels ranging from 35 kV to 500 kV.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, including design development, engineering review, construction support, commissioning, energization, and post-energization support.
• Review protection and control drawings, protection philosophies, relay settings, short-circuit studies, coordination studies, grounding studies, EMT studies, and related technical reports.
• Evaluate short-circuit study results for generation interconnections and provide actionable feedback to EPC partners to support protection design and coordination.
• Apply strong knowledge of protection coordination, time-current characteristics, SEL protection and automation products, and engineering tools such as SEL software, ETAP, and Power Factory.
• Support technical review and interpretation of equipment testing for high- and medium-voltage circuit breakers, main power transformers, instrument transformers, surge arresters, and grounding systems.
• Coordinate NERC PRC compliance activities across multiple projects and work with EPCs, utilities, and internal stakeholders to support applicable standards and reporting requirements.
• Lead efforts to standardize protection and control practices, philosophies, templates, and lessons learned across projects and applications.
• Support root-cause analysis for site events during commissioning, energization, or operations, and incorporate lessons learned into protection and control standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional…