What are the responsibilities and job description for the Protection & Control Engineer II position at Equiliem?
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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.
Responsibilities- 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.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, uniform service member status, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. This practice extends to all aspects of our employment practices, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, firing, promoting, transferring, compensation, benefits, training, leaves of absence, and other terms and conditions of employment.
