Senior P&C Engineer

Summary

Join NYPA as a Senior Protection & Control Engineer and play a key role in safeguarding the reliability of New York's power infrastructure. In this role, you'll design and enhance protection, control, and communication systems that keep our grid resilient and support NYPA's mission to deliver clean, dependable energy to millions of New Yorkers.

You’ll take the lead on analyzing system disturbances, identifying root causes, and developing smart, forward looking solutions. Your work will directly influence system performance by recommending improvements to protective relaying schemes and ensuring full compliance with North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards.

If you're driven by technical excellence, energized by complex challenges, and eager to contribute to the future of the state's electric grid, we'd love to hear from you. #LI-AE1

• Provide lead engineer function for a wide range of large or complex projects. Develop equipment specifications and design packages and provide technical oversight for all, in accordance with applicable industry standards.
• Perform factory or field visits to support design reviews, inspections, evaluations, and testing.
• Coordinate with vendors during the manufacturing process.
• Perform site visits to complete field inspections, condition assessments, and equipment evaluations and develop technical recommendations for complex scenarios with limited oversight.
• Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
• Independently coordinate cross disciplinary activities for the successful development and execution of projects.
• Provide expertise in the selection, interpretation and application of codes, standards and procedures. Set internal standards and procedures.
• Perform inspections and evaluations of existing conditions for various protection system equipment and systems for proper installation, problem identification and troubleshooting. Recommend improvements to the design and construction.
• Manage the technical and commercial aspects of engineering projects performed by external design entities.
• Represent the Authority at industry conferences, committees, or task forces.
• Provide direction and review for the electrical design and drafting personnel in the development of the project drawings.
• Review designs, calculations, specifications, and reports produced by other internal engineers and external consultants.
• Mentor and provide guidance for junior engineers.
• Perform advanced relaying system and power system analysis including system short circuit and relay coordination analysis.
• Develop relay setting calculations for advanced programmable numerical relay systems and provide support for field installation, testing, and commissioning of these systems.
• Review, analyze, and report power generation and transmission system disturbances for protective relaying performance utilizing field data, including digital fault recorder, sequence of events recorder, and relay event records - make recommendations for corrective action if required.
• Perform review of existing protection and control systems for improved performance and replacement of obsolete electromechanical and solid-state systems.
• Prepare protection system application documents and technical specifications for procurement of new protective relays, instrument transformers, and teleprotection systems.
• Interface with other engineering disciplines to develop solutions to problems.
• Apply standard engineering techniques to support and develop methods to improve continued efficient operation of NYPA plants and facilities.
• Develop complex engineering specifications and perform intricate studies.
• Develop and evaluate plans and criteria for a variety of projects and activities.
• Assess feasibility and soundness of proposed engineering evaluation tests and equipment.
• Keep abreast of changes and advancements in the industry.
• For assigned work and projects, provide supervision of maintenance department(s) staff, and contractors, and prepare and monitor the day-to-day work activities of the crafts. Work with planners in scheduling work activities; oversee the safety of employees.…