Responsible for developing and maintaining relay settings to prevent system misoperations. Primary focus will be to read electrical schematics and logic diagrams to develop relay settings and evaluate system operations using oscillography and sequential event records to determine if protection system operated correctly after a tripping event.
Location:
– Remote opportunity
Key job responsibilities:
– Responsible for adhering and encouraging Safety, Environmental Stewardship, Integrity, and Leadership with all employees and customers.
– Ability to develop protective relay specifications for substation and transmission line projects per scoping document requirements. Engineers to work with Scoping, Estimating, and Design teams to develop initial scope documents so projects can be accurately Estimated.
– Provide technical guidance to Design and Capital Budget team to assist with project requirements and timeline.
– Develop detailed protective relay settings for new substation and transmission line projects or updates to existing facilities that coordinate with other relays and protection schemes across the system.
– Ability to analyze sequential event records and oscillography to determine cause of system operations.
– Create or update short circuit and breaker duty calculations and update models to ensure coordination of devices and schemes.
– Ensure compliance with all NERC Standards (e.g. PRC-004, PRC-027).
– Review all as-left relay settings and ensure retention of this settings company specific databases.
– Coordinate relay settings with customers and other utilities.
– Perform new load, generator, and interconnection studies and identify relay setting changes needed.
Qualifications:
– Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) or a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology with a Professional Engineer (PE) license.
– A minimum of 1 year of experience is required.
– Outstanding verbal and written communication skills are a must for this position.
– Ability to analyze data and easily explain complex issue.
– Able to read and understand wiring diagrams, functional diagrams, single/three-line diagrams, and schematics.
– Experience with short circuit software, Schweitzer or GE relays, outage application software, or related software is a plus.
– Experience with MS Word, MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel are a required.
– Works well in team environment and leads by example.
– Ability to work independently to complete assigned tasks.