Staff Engineer, Electrical Engineering

3600 Electrical Testing
Saco, ME 04072, USA

Wunderlich-Malec's Electrical Testing group has a Staff Engineer opportunity available in Saco, ME. This person will be responsible for performing electrical engineering design, relay settings, system studies, testing, and commissioning activities associated with utility, generation, industrial, institutional, and federal electrical power systems. This position serves as a technical lead on assigned projects, performing work independently while collaborating with engineers, designers, field technicians, and commissioning personnel.

The Staff Engineer is responsible for supporting the development, review, and implementation of Protection & Control systems, relay settings, communications integration solutions, SCADA interfaces, logic diagrams and associated engineering documentation. This position supports projects throughout their entire lifecycle, including conceptual design, detailed engineering, relay settings development, factory acceptance testing, field commissioning, startup support, and troubleshooting. The Staff Engineer is responsible for proactively communicating project risks, schedule concerns, technical challenges, and resource requirements to project management and department leadership.

This position requires the Staff Engineer to provide electrical engineering design, testing, commissioning, and technical consulting services to electric utilities, generation owners, industrial facilities, institutional campuses, and federal agencies.

Responsibilities include:

• Engineering Design – Develop Protection & Control design packages including one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, elementary diagrams, wiring diagrams, logic diagrams, communication architecture diagrams, panel layouts, cable schedules, SCADA integration drawings, and relay settings documentation.
• Relay Settings and Studies – Perform relay coordination studies, short-circuit studies, load flow studies, arc flash studies, power quality evaluations, protection system analysis, and relay settings calculations.
• Design Review – Evaluate specifications, engineering drawings, operating philosophies, and client standards to understand the functionality and purpose of substations, generation facilities, industrial power systems, and distribution systems. Provide redline markups of Protection & Control design packages, relay settings files, logic configurations, and communications integration designs.
• Compliance and Standards – Ensure designs, settings, studies, and commissioning activities comply with applicable client standards, NERC requirements, IEEE standards, utility requirements, and industry best practices.
• Event Analysis – Analyze relay event reports, oscillography, sequence-of-events records, fault data, and power quality information. Develop technical reports and corrective action recommendations.
• Resource Management – Assist in the planning and management of engineering resources, project execution strategies, commissioning activities, and technical deliverables.
• Proposal Development – Assist with the preparation of engineering proposals, estimates, schedules, technical scopes of work, and project budgets.
• Testing and Commissioning – Support and/or perform testing and commissioning activities associated with protective relays, circuit breakers, transformers, RTUs, SCADA equipment, communications systems, batteries, chargers, metering systems, and other substation equipment.
• Field Verification and Startup Support – Support and/or perform system energization, conduct field walkdowns, support commissioning activities, participate in startup activities, and troubleshoot system issues during construction and operational phases.
• Functional Testing –…