Senior Relay Settings Engineer
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Job Location:
Framingham, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 87100 - 157450
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Looking for an opportunity to make an impact
The Leidos Energy Infrastructure and Automation operation helps solve utilities complex challenges through our full life-cycle performance-based solutions. Our services include engineering planning project management construction management and commissioning for electric power substations and transmission and distribution lines; protection and controls design; and electrification programs. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise as reflected through our work with more than 75 investor-owned utilities and more than 100 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of private developers.
Your greatest work is ahead!
We are in search of a Senior Relay Settings Engineer to join our diverse and fast-paced Framingham MA organization. As a core team member you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines playing a valuable part in leading and designing utility substation and renewable energy projects.
Hybrid or Remote:
*Fully remote available.
*Hybrid: Two to four days a week in the Framingham MA office.
*Must be willing to travel to customer sites and in-office / testing lab as needed.
Career development and growth including:
- Professional Engineer License (PE)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Technical & non-technical training opportunities
- Mentorship Program
What youll be doing:
- Work with protection engineers and perform quality reviews on relay setting packages.
- Create logic diagrams for IEC61850 substations.
- Work directly with clients as well as other staff in remote office locations.
- Support a full range of project planning activities through design and construction support.
- Prepare relay settings from 4.16kV through 500kV including relay set points logic diagrams configuration files and documentation.
- Solve challenging substation engineering problems.
What does Leidos need from me
- Senior Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and four plus years of related experience.
- Lead Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and eight plus years of related experience.
- Experience creating relay settings and logic diagrams.
- Capable of using Aspen OneLiner and/or Siemens CAPE for coordination studies and fault study analysis.
- Preparation of protective relay coordination studies
- Experience with development of relay settings for microprocessor relays including: SEL Alstom GE ABB and others for both transmission line relays (Line Differential Step Distance and Pilot Schemes) and substation relays (Capacitors Transformers and buses).
- Familiarity with Schweitzer AcSELerator QuickSet General Electric EnerVista and Schneider Electric MiCOM software is a plus.
- Strong engineering and interpersonal skills and high attention to detail with a passion for quality.
- Experience implementing control and protection schemes including interpreting schematics and wiring diagrams and preparing relay logic to complete the schemes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required when interfacing with clients and staff.
Favorable if you have:
- Experience preparing technical reports.
- Familiarity with PTC Mathcad software.
- Previous Quality Assurance/Quality Control experience.
- Periodic travel may be required.
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If youre looking for comfort keep scrolling. At Leidos we outthink outbuild and outpace the status quo because the mission demands it. Were not hiring followers. Were recruiting the ones who disrupt provoke and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. Were already at step 30 and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
January 13 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $87100.00 - $157450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- APIs
- C/C++
- Computer Graphics
- Go
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Library Services
- Assembly
- GraphQL
- High Voltage
About Company
Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. Our 47,000 employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets.
