Engineer (Associate/Staff/Senior)

 

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We offer a hybrid 3-2 work schedule (three days in the office, two days of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

Military service members and veterans with ranks from E3-E5, W1-W2, or O1-O3, plus appropriate equivalent combination of education and years of experience as outlined below will be considered for this opportunity. 

At this time, Dominion Energy cannot transfer or sponsor a work visa or employment authorization for this position.

 

 

Job Summary

Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) System Protection Engineering department is seeking a motivated Electrical Engineer to support the Company’s evolving distribution grid.  
The primary responsibilities for this role include the design, modeling, and development of protective relay settings for Distribution, and renewable energy interconnections. 
This is an exciting time to join our team as we are involved in industry-leading projects and initiatives like interconnecting 5000 MW of solar generation in the next 5 years, the first utility-owned 
offshore wind project in United States federal waters off the Atlantic coast, STATCOMS, IEC-61850, and the largest data center load growth in the world.

 

Job Responsibilities:

Associate Engineer  

• Learn and apply basic protection philosophy and applications to real-world scenarios.
• Develop protective relay settings for System Protection Engineering (SPE) Distribution protection schemes inside the substation.
• Under the guidance of experienced team members, provide technical assistance to various engineering and field teams to fully develop the protection and control design package.
• Provide technical support to conceptual engineering teams, project management teams and ET Field Organization throughout the course of capital projects.
• Perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Engineer

• Continue to learn and apply protection philosophy and application to real-world scenarios.
• Develop protective relay settings for SPE Distribution protection schemes inside the substation.
• Provide technical assistance to various engineering and field teams to fully develop the protection and control design package.
• Provide technical support to conceptual engineering teams, project management teams and ET Field Organization throughout the course of capital projects.
• Participate in various company teams and industry-level organizations to enhance ET's system protection performance.
• Participate in trade and industry organizations.
• Support team with settings peer review activities.
• Perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Senior Engineer & Staff Engineer

• Continue to learn and provide newer engineers on the team with guidance on applying protection philosophy and application to real-world scenarios.
• Develop protective relay settings for SPE Distribution protection schemes inside the substation.
• Provide technical assistance to various engineering and field teams to fully develop the protection and control design package.
• Provide advanced technical support to conceptual engineering teams, project management teams and ET Field Organization throughout the course of capital projects.
• Participate in various company teams and industry level organizations to enhance ET's system protection performance.
• Participate in trade and industry organizations and benchmarking activities.
• Support team with settingS peer review activities.
• Provide technical support to newer engineers on the team.
• Provide support to SPE's Engineer Training program.
• Perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experience required for entry into this job include the following:

• Associate Engineer: 0-2 years of engineering experience 
• Engineer: 2+ years of engineering experience 
• Sr. Engineer: 5+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Staff Engineer: 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Strong time management skills with the ability to independently plan and organize work assignments