
Senior Product Engineer
Hubbell Incorporated
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Largo • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Lead the application and integration of Beckwith Electric’s protection, automation, and control solutions across generation, transmission, distribution, substations, DER interconnections, and industrial facilities.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, sales, business development and customer support to deploy products and solutions that solve customer’s challenges.
- Act as the subject matter expert on protection relays, controls, and provide thought leadership and play a vital role in product development.
- Work closely with the sales & commercial organization, engineering, R&D, and business development teams to develop and refine customer solutions utilizing Beckwith/Hubbell Protection & Control products and services.
- Be the voice of customer internally for product and solutions development.
- Provide thought leadership by participating in industry conferences, tradeshows, demos, customer visits, and publishing technical papers.
- Provide support in developing product roadmap, writing market/product requirements, and generating technical marketing content.
- Investigate / troubleshoot specific customer or product problems and propose solutions and changes for satisfactory resolution.
- Review customer specifications, drawings, and other customer documents to assure proper application and operation of the company's products and systems.
- Provide pre-sales application assistance for quotations and bids.
- Assist with planning and execution of product launches, seminars, webinars, and promotional activities.
Requirements
- University degree in Electrical Engineering (Bachelors minimum, preferably Masters) or equivalent with a focus on power systems protection & control.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of utility or industrial power systems.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in or with utilities’ substation, transmission, distribution, grid automation, grid modernization, operations, or standards group.
- Proven technical experience with protection & control IEDs.
- Understanding of basic electrical safety and 3-phase power theory.
- Protection & Control IED settings development (Protection, Control, Automation, Logic, Communications, Monitoring, Metering, Reporting).
- Working knowledge of major IED configuration tools from vendors such as GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens, Hitachi, and Schneider Electric.
- Understanding of IED testing tools from vendors such as Omicron, Doble, Megger.
- Application knowledge of IEC 61850, Sampled Values, Digital Substation, Merging Units, Centralized Protection, and Virtual Protection.
- Understanding of communication, time synchronization, and redundancy protocols used within protection and control devices (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC103/104, PTP, PRP) and familiarity with substation networking architecture.
- Advanced knowledge of protection functions, ANSI function numbers, and their applications (overcurrent, voltage, frequency, distance, power, directional, differential, impedance, distribution automation).
- Understanding of the IEEE/ANSI/IEC/NERC standards as it relates to the protection functions.
- Ability to comprehend, review, and create single line diagrams for substations, transmission, and distribution systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot power system events based on settings files, sequence of events, reports, and oscillography data.
- Basic understanding of firmware/software development, product certifications, compliance testing, safety testing and standards-based product testing.
Benefits
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
protection relayspower systems protectionprotection & control IEDs3-phase power theoryIED settings developmentIEC 61850DNP3ModbusANSI function numberstroubleshooting power system events
Soft Skills
collaborationthought leadershipcustomer supportproblem-solvingcommunication