Power System Protective Relay Engineer

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About You and this Role

Dow is currently seeking a Power System Protective Relay Engineer to join our team in Freeport, TX!  In this role, you will provide electrical support for the Energy Business at US Gulf Coast sites and occasionally other locations, related to protective relay and metering system design, operation, setting, programming, commissioning, and maintenance. In addition, you will have the opportunity to support sites that are large privately owned and operated industrial power systems with thousands of protective relays in service on transmission, distribution, and generation assets.

Responsibilities

• Provide protective relay designs including development of one- and three-line diagrams, interconnect and wiring diagrams, DC schematics, and control logic for medium and high voltage substations.
• Projects will include both new installations and modifications to existing installations and are often executed in energized substations.
• Develop protection settings and logic or perform reviews of protection settings and logic developed by others.
• Perform complex electrical calculations as required to set and program protective relays.
• Implement relay-to-relay and relay-to-SCADA communication using a variety of communication protocols and network topologies.
• Develop electrical models (fault, load flow, stability) as required for protective relay studies on new or existing facilities.
• Utilize system studies in order to evaluate or design protective relay and substation control systems for appropriate protection and coordination.
• Access, utilize, and in some cases develop or improve Dow Most Effective Technology (MET) related to protective relay systems. Interface with Dow Electrical Discipline Teams and Protection & Control Technical Solutions Team as necessary to accomplish this.
• Serve as a technical resource for day-to-day operations, maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and safety investigations associated with protective relaying systems.
• Interface with third-party electrical suppliers and influence their protection designs and settings at Supplier/Dow interconnection points to meet Dow’s needs.
• Analyze post-fault data, including metering and transient recorder data and aid in investigating electrical events and provide system restoration recommendations.

Qualifications

• A minimum of bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• Must be willing and able to travel up to 10% annually
• Must possess a TWIC card or be eligible to obtain a TWIC card. For information on TWIC eligibility requirements, please see: https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/twic (If unable to access link, copy and paste in your browser.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Preferred Skills

• Proficient using ETAP.
• Knowledge of PSS/E and Aspen Oneliner

Additional Notes

• Domestic relocation assistance is available for this role and may be provided based on eligibility.

Benefits – What Dow offers you 

We invest in you. 

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.  

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee: 

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives. 
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it. 
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resou