Title: Senior Engineer II - System Protection /
Electrical Engineer 4
Duration: 6 Months - Planned Extensions
Location: 100% Remote – PST Work Hours
Job Description
- Specifies, selects, and
applies protective relaying equipment, determines device settings, and
develops protection, control, and automation philosophy.
Essential Duties and
Responsibilities
- Completes relay coordination
analyses and determines appropriate settings for substation projects.
- Leads the development of
protection, control, and substation automation schemes, and specify
relaying and associated equipment, including automation methodologies and
large to complex remedial action schemes.
- Performs studies, prepares,
and provides protection documentation to executive management, internal
and external customers.
- Applies technical expertise
and knowledge in developing state-of-the-art solutions for large to
complex protection problems.
- Ensures quality control and
external customer service on assigned projects by providing construction
support and coordination with construction forces and proactively seeking
and incorporating customer input.
- Ensures all compliance
aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with
all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company,
including NERC/WECC mandates.
Requirements
Education and Work
Experience
- Engineering degree from an
ABET accredited college/university.
- Minimum 8 years transmission
system protection experience.
- Professional Engineering (PE)
license registration.
- Strong knowledge of relay
coordination studies, and development of associated protective relay
settings for systems ranging from 12.47 kV to 345 kV is required.
Experience with 500 kV systems is a plus.
- Experience applying
protection system engineering practices and principles in the following
areas: transmission line, bus, transformer, shunt capacitor bank, reactor
bank, feeder, remedial action schemes, and communication assisted
protection schemes.
- Familiar with the application
of NERC PRC standards for compliance.
- Technical analyses utilizing
appropriate computer modeling techniques.
- Time management,
organizational, oral, and written communication, interpersonal,
analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Equipment and Applications
- Proven experience in system
modeling and fault analysis software (ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, or EasyPower),
and Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, and
Access).
Travel: <10%
- Applicant can be fully
remote. May be required to come in the office for project meetings, etc.
(NVE would provide per diem and travel reimbursement)