Protection & Control Engineer II

Develop design solutions for clients protection and control and associated communication systems, perform system disturbance analysis and recommend protective relaying system modifications and/or additions. Assures adherence to applicable North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards to maintain and operate clients assets.

• Provide lead engineer function in support of a wide range of design modification projects, equipment applications and failure research, engineering studies, and operations and maintenance activities.
• Perform site visits to complete field inspections, condition assessments, and equipment evaluations and develop technical recommendations with moderate complexity.
• Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
• Independently coordinate cross disciplinary activities for the successful development and execution of projects.
• Select and apply codes, standards, and procedures to work tasks appropriately.
• Perform inspections and evaluations to ensure engineering requirements and specifications are satisfied.
• Provide technical leadership in state-of-the-art engineering and analytical techniques.
• Review designs, calculations, specifications, and reports produced by other internal engineers and external consultants.
• Provide direction and review for the electrical design and drafting personnel in the development of project drawings.
• Perform engineering design for the protection and control and associated communication systems for the clients system (through both complete in-house designs and submittal of protection criteria).
• Perform special short circuit studies and other complex calculations as required to establish relay settings utilizing sophisticated software analysis programs.
• Prepare specifications for purchasing protection and communication equipment and instrument transformer devices.
• Evaluate bid proposals and provide technical recommendations for awards of bids.
• Perform system disturbance analysis and recommend protective relaying system modification and/or additions, if required.
• Review existing clients protective relay settings to ensure proper relay coordination margin and recommend relay setting changes if required.
• Interface with manufacturers, consultants, professional organizations, regulatory and standardizing bodies to maintain familiarity with and stay conversant with the requirements of power system protection and control.

• Proficient in the design, operation, and maintenance of Protection and Control systems specific to the electric utility industry.
• Working knowledge of protective relaying systems and their various components.
• Ability to utilize communication systems including power line carrier, leased telephone circuits, microwave links and fiber optic technology to develop protective relaying systems.
• Ability to apply diverse technical principles and practices, with the understanding of the client's policies, operations, and objectives, to engineering deliverables.
• Working knowledge of applicable codes, standards, regulations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Collaborative and team-oriented with ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
• Ability to coordinate the technical and commercial aspects of projects.
• Ability to perform engineering calculations, complete specifications, scopes of work, reports, and interdisciplinary design packages.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
• Working experience with engineering software such as ASPEN and relay manufacturing software preferred.
• Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects.
• Ability to organize state-of-the-art microprocessor-based digital transient recorders and integrated sequence-of-event recorders in complex monitoring and logging systems to provide the necessary information for system performance analysis.
• Ability to develop complex engineering specifications and perform more intricate studies.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent, from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum of six (6) years of related work experience preferred.
• Experience in Protective Relaying applied to Electrical Power Systems required.
• New York State Engineer in Training certification preferred.

Approximately 25% travel primarily within NY State.