Field Supervisor - Protection & Control
Listed on 2026-10-17
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Field/Service Technician
The Field Supervisor Protection & Control (P&C) is responsible for ensuring electrical power systems and critical equipment operate safely, efficiently, reliably, and without unplanned downtime. This position combines hands‑on technical work, including testing, troubleshooting, commissioning, and maintenance of protection and control systems—with field supervision, technical leadership, and proactive reliability strategies. The Field Supervisor oversees day‑to‑day P&C field activities and provides technical direction, training, mentoring, and development to P&C Technicians.
This position is responsible for ensuring work is performed safely, accurately, and efficiently in accordance with Taurus Industrial Group (TIG) standards, customer requirements, applicable industry standards, and project specifications. The role serves as a technical resource for field personnel and works closely with project leadership, customers, engineers, and other Power & Reliability personnel to support successful project execution and the continued development of TIG's P&C capabilities.
Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Minimum Qualifications- High school diploma or GED required.
- Associate degree, technical degree, electrical apprenticeship, military electrical training, or equivalent technical education preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in protection and control, electrical testing, commissioning, substation maintenance, or related power systems work preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with protective relays, control systems, electrical testing, troubleshooting, and commissioning.
- Previous experience leading field crews, technicians, or technical project activities strongly preferred.
- Experience working with low-, medium-, and high-voltage electrical power systems and associated protection and control equipment.
- Experience interpreting electrical drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, DC control schematics, and relay logic.
- Experience with applicable relay testing software, test equipment, and diagnostic tools.
- Working knowledge of electrical safety requirements and applicable industry standards.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet company driving requirements when driving is an essential function of the position.
- Ability to travel and work overtime, nights, weekends, holidays, outages, and emergency assignments as required.
- Advanced knowledge of electrical protection and control principles, systems, and equipment.
- Strong understanding of protective relaying applications, control circuits, metering, and power system protection.
- Knowledge of electromechanical, solid-state, and microprocessor-based protective relays.
- Knowledge of relay functions and protection schemes associated with transformers, buses, feeders, motors, generators, transmission, and distribution systems.
- Ability to perform and oversee protective relay testing, functional testing, troubleshooting, calibration, and commissioning.
- Ability to interpret relay settings, logic diagrams, event reports, sequence-of-events data, and test results.
- Knowledge of current and potential transformers (CTs and PTs/VTs), trip and close circuits, breaker control schemes, annunciation, and DC control systems.
- Familiarity with SCADA systems, RTUs, PLCs, communication systems, and associated control interfaces.
- Ability to read and interpret one-line…
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