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Senior Protection & Control Design Engineer

SynchroGrid
Denver, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 2/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

We are seeking a Senior Protection and Control Design Engineer who will independently evaluate, select, and apply standard engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria, using judgment in making adaptations and modifications. This candidate should have 6 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities :

  • Lead a team of electrical engineers on protection and control design projects for transmission, generation, and distribution by helping put together protection and control drawings, relay settings, coordination studies, reports, etc.
  • Interact with clients and take a leadership role in varying aspects of different projects.
  • Be involved with project site evaluations, preparing engineering scope documents and writing technical equipment specifications as needed.
  • Create relay one-lines, three-lines, control schematics, wiring diagrams, relay panel arrangements, and cable schedules, etc.
  • Design AC / DC control schematics.
  • Create technical specifications for major equipment, such as power transformers, power circuit breakers, control house, and other high-voltage substation related materials.
  • Provide engineering, construction, and testing & commissioning support for projects.
  • Perform engineering calculations such as voltage drop, CT burden and saturation, lighting, short circuit, etc.
  • Apply field mark-ups of projects as-built drawings with minimal supervision.
  • Assist project manager to develop scope of work and conceptual design for the projects.
  • Work with the engineering team to meet project specifications, cost control, and schedule objectives.
  • Design protection schemes for distance, overcurrent, breaker failure, line current differential, bus and transformer differential.
  • Design communication protection schemes such as POTT, DCB, PUTT, BFTT, etc.
  • Review project schedules and work with project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule.
  • Properly use the document management system.
  • Apply corporate standard engineering practices.

Qualifications :

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience, and must be registered as a Professional Engineer (PE)
  • 6 years of relative work experience in developing protection and control designs for transmission, distribution, and generation systems.
  • Experience designing protection panels using SEL microprocessor relays for line, transformer, bus, feeder, based protection, and control systems.
  • Knowledge of relay protection and control design fundamentals such as distance, overcurrent, breaker failure, line current differential, bus and transformer differential.
  • Proficiency in designing communication protection schemes such as POTT, DCB, PUTT, BFTT, etc.
  • Ability to design relaying one-lines, three-lines, control schematics, wiring / interconnection diagrams, and cable schedules.
  • Knowledge of relevant codes and standards such as NEC, NESC, IEEE, NEMA and ANSI
  • Familiarity with ASPEN modeling, relay coordination, short circuit studies, setting microprocessor-based relays, or field commissioning of electrical systems.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact directly with clients.
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