Senior Engineer - Protection & Control

Job Title: Senior Engineer - Protection & Control  

Location: Rochester, NY OR Binghamton, NY

Work Type: Office

The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $94,490 to $118,113

We do provide GREAT BENEFITS + SIGN ON BONUS + RELOCATION

Job Summary

The Philosophy and Standards group is a support function for the Protection and Control (P&C) Department. The Philosophy and Standards group is responsible for researching industry best practices to create P&C standards. This group also develops new engineering processes and tools. System scope includes transmission, substation, and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, and United Illuminating.

Key Responsibilities

• General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting templates, record keeping processes, and engineering tools. The engineer will also participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.

• The position requires conducting engineering analysis, researching white papers and manuals, organizing and facilitating meeting, presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, and documenting assignments.  This position requires collaboration with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.

• As a senior engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously. The senior engineer is expected to lead engineering projects.

• Active projects include engineering a pilot IEC 61850 process bus substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays (VPR) and Centralized Substation Protection (CSP), evaluating new relay vendors, updating engineering standards, and writing conference papers

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or equal

• Greater than 5 years’ experience in electrical substations, transmission systems, distribution systems operations up to 345kV, or protection and control design and construction.

• Familiarity with Brownfield electromechanical relay substation

• Knowledge of various industry standards such as OSHA, IEEE, IEC, NFPA, NETA, and NERC.

• Advanced theoretical understanding of electrical power systems which includes knowledge of fault calculations (short-circuit), symmetrical components, protective coordination, and the use of fault analysis software to perform system modeling, short-circuit studies and arc flash hazard analysis studies (AFHA).

• Advanced computer skills utilizing word processing, spreadsheets, email, facility control, management, and reporting systems. Must be able to use computerized diagnostic and troubleshooting tools.

• Ability to interpret and follow a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations.

• Must work well under pressure from job demands, multi-tasking ability essential.

• Ability to collaborate across departments.

• Work independently although supervision might be required.

Preferred Qualifications

• FE Certification and/or Professional Engineer Certification (PE)

• Strong understanding of communication and SCADA protocols

• Experience with AutoCAD

• Experience with relay/logic testing and field commissioning

• Experience with relay test sets (specifically the Manta MTS-5100 Test Set)

• Experience with RTU’s

• Familiar with NERC Reliability Standards, like the PRC’s

• Experience with software such as ASPEN One-liner and SEL AcSELerator Quickset

• IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS)

• Networking

• Real Time Simulators

• Virtualized Protection Relays

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement

• Initiative & Change

• Focused on Results

• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)

• Communication