Engineer 3 - Protection & Controls
Engineer 3 - Protection & Controls
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Engineer 3 - Protection & Controls
Elevate your career with a leader in the power industry as an Engineer 3 specializing in Protection and this role you will provide crucial technical support and oversee projects for our dynamic Protection and Controls team ensuring the delivery of reliable and innovative solutions for critical infrastructure projects.
Position Overview:
- Provide substation protection and control design engineering technical support and oversight into a transmission substation engineering and design team for the purpose of delivering safe cost-effective and quality engineering and design services.
- Provide technical competency and direction on complex engineering and technical problems for projects including a wide range of utility substation projects battery energy storage systems and solar collector substations.
- The incumbent is expected to lead discipline work for projects perform responsible charge engineering duties and manage project schedules and budgets. The incumbent will also support proposal development and project cost estimating.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Advanced understanding of protection and control fundamentals as they apply to utility substation and transmission line equipment
- Proficient in design of protection schemes for substation and transmission line equipment including bus line capacitor and transformer design and protection schemes and associated settings
- Advanced understanding of SCADA communication design
- Ability to lead a team of engineers and designers in a lead engineer capacity
- Proficient in principles of project management
- Basic understanding of substation design to include equipment arrangements
- Create substation P&C design project scopes estimates budgets and schedules for substation projects
- Ability to read interpret design and engineer P&C designs for utility stations through 500kV including one lines three lines AC/DC schematics panel layouts wiring diagrams settings relays and SCADA
- Ability to perform studies and create reports for coordination voltage drop fault current and insulation coordination
- Perform calculations and studies using client specified software and standards
- Oversee the work of junior staff and mentor designers/drafters
- Experience checking designs for accuracy appearance and adherence to customer standards
- Collaborate communicate and liaise effectively with other design disciplines colleagues construction contractors consultants materials suppliers and clients
- Visit sites advise on P&C engineering issues and modify design to solve issues during construction
- Manage budgets and project schedules
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years experience as a practicing engineer
- Bachelors degree from an EAC/ABET accredited Engineering Program OR an approved evaluation of non-ABET credentials by NCEES OR graduation from a Masters or Doctoral Program in Engineering from an institution with EAC/ABET accredited Undergraduate Engineering Programs
- Licensed Professional Engineer or the ability to be licenses within one year
Other Skills/Abilities
- Self-Motivated
- Work independently
- Team-Oriented
- Customer Oriented
- Able to manage multiple tasks and provide leadership to other team members
- Think both creatively and logically to resolve design and development problems
- Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic cultural and ethnic backgrounds
- Proficient in practices of researching engineering and design issues evaluating alternatives making sound recommendations and preparing and presenting recommendations
- Good written and oral communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in the utility industry
Employment Type
Full-time
