Senior Engineer II - System Protection

Senior Engineer II

Specifies, selects, and applies protective relaying equipment, determines device settings, and develops protection, control, and automation philosophy. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Completes relay coordination analyses and determines appropriate settings for substation projects.
• Leads the development of protection, control, and substation automation schemes, and specifies relaying and associated equipment, including automation methodologies and large to complex remedial action schemes.
• Performs studies, prepares, and provides protection documentation to executive management, internal and external customers.
• Applies technical expertise and knowledge in developing state-of-the-art solutions for large to complex protection problems.
• Ensures quality control and external customer service on assigned projects by providing construction support and coordination with construction forces and proactively seeking and incorporating customer input.
• Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company, including NERC/WECC mandates.

Education and Work Experience

• Engineering degree from an ABET accredited college/university.
• Minimum 8 years transmission system protection experience.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license registration.

Specialized Knowledge and Skills Demonstrated knowledge of:

• Strong knowledge of relay coordination studies, and development of associated protective relay settings for systems ranging from 12.47 kV to 345 kV is required. Experience with 500 kV systems is a plus.
• Experience applying protection system engineering practices and principles in the following areas: transmission line, bus, transformer, shunt capacitor bank, reactor bank, feeder, remedial action schemes, and communication assisted protection schemes.
• Familiar with the application of NERC PRC standards for compliance.

Demonstrated skills such as:

• Technical analyses utilizing appropriate computer modeling techniques.
• Time management, organizational, oral, and written communication, interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Equipment and Applications:

• Proven experience in system modeling and fault analysis software (ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, or Easy Power), and Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access).

Work Environment and Physical Demands:
General office environment with occasional field work required. Travel: