What are the responsibilities and job description for the Protection and Control Engineer position at Idom?
IDOM is an international engineering and consulting firm with headquarters in Spain, and over 5300 employees in 45 offices worldwide. ENR currently ranks us #61 in the top international engineering firms worldwide. In the US we emphasize providing professional engineering and consulting services to the sectors of Power, Petrochemical, Astronomy, Research Test Facilities and general Manufacturing. Currently expanding operations in the Northeast in Power Transmission and Distribution sector.
This position is related to Substations and distributed generation energy projects to work for one of the worldwide top renewable and distributed generation utilities. Experience in this field is absolutely required.
PROTECTION & CONTROL ENGINEER
This position includes the responsibility of performing protection and control engineering on various substation projects (from 34.5kV up to 765 kV voltage level) for local and domestic clients. This position will be responsible for all aspects of the engineering design oversight of multiple complex utility projects. This is not a supervisory position; however, the individual may need to direct the work of other engineers and / or designers on a project basis. While this is an office-based position, some travel (including international) may be required.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically the goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes.
- Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality / scheme in accordance with AVANGRID TM standards
- Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects
- Review / perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required / needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)
- Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings
- Review / provide input to Owner’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects
- Provide design support during implementation / testing and commissioning of the above the items
- Provide feedback to Owner on existing TM standards and help refine the Owner’s design practices
- Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Owner
- Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects
- Review / design SCADA point indexes
- Review contractor provided HMI screens / settings for all capital projects
- Review / design Protection settings and settings basis
- Review / design IED Data Maps
- Review / create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.)
- Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists
- Track all required licenses / firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation
- Provide design support during implementation / testing and commissioning of the above items
- Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)
Minimum Academic & Professional Requirements : Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Licensed Professional Engineer
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