Switzerland Global Enterprise

Lead Protection and Control Engineer

Switzerland Global Enterprise

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $98,400 - $131,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

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About the role

  • The Lead Protection & Control Engineer works on T&D substations for AC, HVDC and FACTS projects with designers, peer engineers & leaders.
  • Define, design, coordinate all technical aspects of HV / EHV substation protection & control and oversee technical plant integration and optimization at project level considering safety, quality, schedule and cost criteria.
  • Lead a local or remote design team to develop panel and interconnect wiring as well as panel layouts and elevations.
  • Evaluate the interoperability, control features, and communication / protocol aspects of IED’s serving as protection relays to provide an integrated solution including SCADA, Cyber Security and Telecom needs.
  • Be familiar with IEC 61850 process and system bus architecture and its implementation for substations.
  • Coordinate with and provide technical assistance to SCADA engineers, substation physical engineers, and control design staff in order to fully develop system integration of protection, control, and monitoring systems.
  • Review power system load flow studies, fault studies, relay setting coordination, and transient studies performed by other agencies.
  • Train end-users on the theory, operational use, and maintenance of integrated protection and control systems.
  • Lead or support factory acceptance testing and site testing & commissioning.
  • Develop outage, cut-over, and testing procedures.
  • Define processes, procedures, perform RCA's (Root Cause Analysis), perform corrective actions, and validate process control.
  • Support quality initiatives including aspects of ISO9002.
  • Work on development of proposals including: writing and/or reviewing technical specifications, estimating design man-hours and materials, supporting sourcing for vendor quotations, and the development of clarifications and exceptions as well as technical responses and performing technical validation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar degree from an accredited university.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in system protection schemes, relay selection, primary equipment interface requirements, operational analysis, communication systems and maintenance practices for transmission, distribution, and generation protection applications at both AIS and GIS substations.
  • Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time, including international, for meetings and on-site commissioning tests for customer installations and comply with all relevant company travel and tax policies.
  • P.E. License or EIT with willingness to pursue and acquire P.E certification (desired).
  • Fluent in English.
  • Experience in protective relaying coordination and practices.
  • Good understanding of circuit breakers, fuses, circuit switchers, transformers, shunt reactors, cap banks, harmonic filters, HVDC and FACTS systems.