Senior Engineer - Protection & Control

Job Title

Senior Engineer - Protection & Control

Rochester, NY OR Binghamton, NY

Office

Base salary dependent upon experience and location ranging from $106,000 to $132,500

GREAT BENEFITS + SIGN ON BONUS + RELOCATION

This role is responsible for researching industry best practices to create Protection and Control standards. Responsibilities also include development of new engineering processes and tools, evaluating new P&C technologies, and writing industry white papers. System scope includes transmission, substation, and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, and United Illuminating.

• General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, and engineering tools.
• Conducts engineering analysis, researching industry papers and manuals.
• As a senior engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously.
• The senior engineer is expected to lead engineering projects and facilitate meetings with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
• Authoring engineering standards and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
• Engineers in the Philosophy and Standards group often are requested to work on special one-off projects. Past examples include overhauling arc flash calculation methods, evaluating the feasibility of distribution switching stations, evaluating new substation designs.
• Active projects include engineering AVANGRID’s first IEC 61850 Process Bus Substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays, expanding relaying laboratories (including use of an RTDS), conducting studies, updating engineering standards, creating internal engineering training courses, and writing conference papers.

• 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering. 2 years of experience specifically in P&C, substation engineering, substation testing and commissioning, or similar engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• Due to the open-ended nature of the department’s responsibilities, an intuitive understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components, per unit, harmonics, transformers, and fault analysis.

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering preferred.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
• Experience with SEL, GE, and Siemens relays.
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS), networking, real time digital simulators (RTDS), virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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