Job DescriptionTitle: Senior Engineer II - System Protection / Electrical Engineer 4
Duration: 6 Months - Planned Extensions
Location: 100% Remote - PST Work Hours
Job Description
- Specifies, selects, andapplies protective relaying equipment, determines device settings, anddevelops protection, control, and automation philosophy.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Completes relay coordinationanalyses and determines appropriate settings for substation projects.
- Leads the development ofprotection, control, and substation automation schemes, and specifyrelaying and associated equipment, including automation methodologies andlarge to complex remedial action schemes.
- Performs studies, prepares,and provides protection documentation to executive management, internaland external customers.
- Applies technical expertiseand knowledge in developing state-of-the-art solutions for large tocomplex protection problems.
- Ensures quality control andexternal customer service on assigned projects by providing constructionsupport and coordination with construction forces and proactively seekingand incorporating customer input.
- Ensures all complianceaspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies withall policies, codes, and regulations applicable to position and company,including NERC/WECC mandates.
RequirementsEducation and Work Experience
- Engineering degree from anABET accredited college/university.
- Minimum 8 years transmissionsystem protection experience.
- Professional Engineering (PE)license registration.
- Strong knowledge of relaycoordination studies, and development of associated protective relaysettings for systems ranging from 12.47 kV to 345 kV is required.Experience with 500 kV systems is a plus.
- Experience applyingprotection system engineering practices and principles in the followingareas: transmission line, bus, transformer, shunt capacitor bank, reactorbank, feeder, remedial action schemes, and communication assistedprotection schemes.
- Familiar with the applicationof NERC PRC standards for compliance.
- Technical analyses utilizingappropriate computer modeling techniques.
- Time management,organizational, oral, and written communication, interpersonal,analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Equipment and Applications
- Proven experience in systemmodeling and fault analysis software (ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, or EasyPower),and Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, andAccess).
Travel: <10%
- Applicant can be fullyremote. May be required to come in the office for project meetings, etc.(NVE would provide per diem and travel reimbursement)