Senior Protection & Controls Engineer

Job Description

Senior Protection & Controls Engineer 

This is a permanent, full-time, exempt-level position.  

Position Description:

ADM is seeking a Senior Protection and Controls Engineer to support the development of protective relay design associated with the Generation and Transmission and Distribution assets.  The successful candidate will be part of the Electrical Systems group and will be tasked within the North American geographic region with primary focus within Nebraska, Ohio, Iowa and Illinois.

The Senior Protection and Controls Engineer will provide technical leadership and expertise on various Generation, Transmission and Distribution (T&D) relaying applications and is responsible for defining protection architecture, functional criteria and specifications for relaying and control schemes associated with the Generation and T&D Assets.

The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in Generation and T&D system protection and control and will have extensive experience using system modeling tools such as ETAP,ASPEN, CAPE, SKM, etc.

Primary Responsibilities:

   Improving Electrical Asset Reliability:
 

• Lead Protection and Control Team in the design, development and review of protective relay settings, basis for relay settings, IED data maps and SCADA points lists
• Delegating, planning, prioritizing and reviewing the work of other engineers will be critical
• Identify, develop and recommend Protection and Controls maintenance and testing requirements associated with the Generations and T&D Assets and ensure that these requirements are aligned with industry standards and best practices
• Familiar with NERC PRC and CIP standards
• Develop asset registers for the protection system with the appropriate hierarchy and attributes to facilitate uploading to the computerized maintenance management system
• Lead the investigation and analysis of system instability and major system disturbances and develop/ review recommendations with respect to corrective actions
• Ensure the smooth real-time operation of the power system by performing and analyzing technical studies and data, developing strategies and alternatives, and establishing and documenting operating procedures
• Perform audits of critical protection systems within the computerized maintenance management system to ensure that the appropriate testing and maintenance is completed within the industry recommended timing
• Provide report of Protection and Control System performance relative to the company’s established KPIs

• Works within a multi-discipline team to develop and/ or review efficient and reliable electrical design packages for medium and high voltage electrical infrastructure
• Lead the protection design for all Capital Projects and define relay protection functionality and schemes in alignment with industry standards to satisfy power system reliability requirements
• Review the relay settings, logic diagrams (including GOOSE messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions supplied by the contractor for all capital projects
• Ensure that the protection assets associated with capital projects are appropriately catalogued, the hierarchy developed and maintenance/ testing requirements created that are aligned with manufacturer’s recommendations/ industry standards

• Work with the CMMS team to ensure that developed hierarchy and maintenance/ testing plans are uploaded into the CMMS
• Ensure that commissioning documents are comprehensive and aligned with previously authored Protection and Control commissioning standard/ specification
• Maintains complete project documentation with respect to relay settings, engineering studies and calculations, all design packages, as-built requirements and return data information
• Ensure that during infrastructure handover (from project to operations); the appropriate commissioning documents, O&M manuals and procedures and confirmation of CMMS upload are transferred to the operat