Protection and Controls Engineer 2 – Grid
Sargent & Lundy
Protection and Controls Engineer 2, Grid
Sargent & Lundy
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Tennessee
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💰 $66,000 - $94,810 per year
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Prepare protection and control schematics and wiring drawings for substation modifications and upgrades to support client requirements
- Prepare protective relaying philosophies, including selection of relay, control, and communications equipment
- Define SCADA and telecommunication concepts and configurations, and I/O assignments and connection diagrams
- Investigate, troubleshoot, and solve a wide variety of substation protection and control issues
- Prepare designs for single line diagrams, substation relaying & metering diagrams (A.C. schematic diagrams), and D.C. schematic diagrams
- Perform independent reviews of work performed by others
- Develop career via peer-learning and participation in Sargent & Lundy’s Communities of Practice
- Potential to travel to client and vendor offices for design reviews and to plant project sites for construction coordination and field verification of designs
- Work on a hybrid schedule requiring in-office work 3 days per week
Requirements
- Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a power systems or controls emphasis from an ABET-accredited engineering program
- 1 or more years of experience with a focus on protection / control / telecommunications for high voltage substations; including design, installation, and coordination
- Familiarity with the design techniques, tools, and principles involved in the production of technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models
- Familiarity with design codes and standards, such as NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI
- Familiarity with various vendor protective relay equipment typically used in substation protection
- Proficiency with MS Office applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- We do not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position
- Valued but not required: in-line, bus and equipment protection; breaker, transformer and similar equipment control; RTU and SCADA systems; telemetering and communications (fiber optics, microwave, power line carrier, etc.);
- Valued but not required: AutoCAD or MicroStation experience
- Valued but not required: Construction and start-up experience
- Valued but not required: Testing or commissioning experience
- Valued but not required: PE license
