Senior Engineers - Protection and Control

Reports to:

Supervisor
- Protection & Control

Work Type:
Office

Location:

Orange, CT;
Rochester, Kirkwood, NY;
Augusta, ME

Salary Range:
The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location: $94,000 to $120,500 (NY and ME locations) $103,000 to $132,500 (CT Location)

• Competitive health insurance
• Student Loan Debt Repayment program
• Up to $10k annual tuition assistance policy
• $3500 EV Employee incentive program
• 2-months parental leave
• Industry-leading 401(k) match of 150% on 8% of your salary
• 8% to 16% annual bonus
• 5-weeks of paid time off

Opportunities for professional development, certifications, and advancement within the company.

Work on cutting-edge technology, leader in the industry, and impactful projects that shape the future of energy delivery.

Join a team that values safety, excellence, and sustainability, fostering a supportive and collaborative work culture.

Flexible work arrangements to help you balance your professional and personal life.

As part of AVANGRID's engineering team, you will be responsible for the design and configuration of automation, data collection, protection, and control equipment subsystems. You will work on our extensive electric delivery infrastructure, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-effective completion of projects.

• Perform relay settings design and relay coordination analysis for electric transmission and substation protection systems in support of capital construction programs.
• Lead engineering contractors and consultants performing protection system settings for capital projects.
• Analyze disturbance event operations, ensuring protection schemes perform flawlessly.
• Develop and deliver clear, impactful fault analysis reports to management, highlighting corrective actions and valuable lessons learned.
• Lead NERC compliance programs applicable to substation assets and act as a subject matter expert during audits.
• Collaborate with project teams to resolve issues related to protection and control systems.
• Represent AVANGRID on regional and national committees.

• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience or 3 years in Protection & Control.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or technology.
• Registered Professional Engineer or eligibility for certification.
• Experience with ASPEN One Liner, SEL & GE Relay Programming, IEC
  61850 Standard, and protection coordination analysis.
• Familiar with FERC, NERC, NPCC, and state regulations.
• Strong knowledge of power system analysis, protection fundamentals, and compliance standards.

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.

At Avangrid we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role…