What are the responsibilities and job description for the Protection and Control Engineer position at Vodastra?
Role: Protection and Control Engineer
Location: San Ramon, CA (Onsite)
Job Summary:
Our P&C Engineers independently produce and understand the process to complete P&C packages, including managing designers and drafters for the package.
Who You Are:
Location: San Ramon, CA (Onsite)
Job Summary:
Our P&C Engineers independently produce and understand the process to complete P&C packages, including managing designers and drafters for the package.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university
- Professional Engineer (PE) License
- 4 years of experience engineering/designing electrical systems within the Utilities or Energy industry
- Skilled in AutoCAD (MicroStation is a plus)
- Experience with ETAP, WinIGS, IEEE 88/998
- Experience using Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Bentley MicroStation and/or Bentley Substation software to develop 2D drawings or 3D models are a plus.
- PE Certification is a plus
- Knowledge and understanding of one or more of the following skillsets: SCADA, automation, relay settings, RTU configuration, and Protection & Controls engineering terms and concepts are a plus.
- Experience working with the electric utility industry or petro-chemical industry.
- BSEE Degree with 6 years of experience.
- Identify proper protection and control schemes for transmission and distribution substations.
- Select proper protection devices for equipment within a substation.
- Prepare scopes of work and estimates for evaluating and designing substations.
- Identify proper equipment sizing and order material.
- Ensure the maintenance and adherence of customer standards as it pertains to relay protection.
- Create drawing packages for substation relay protection that include wiring diagrams, schematics, protection panels, one-line, and three-line diagrams.
- Interface with clients and vendors.
- Perform load calculations for load panels, battery systems, voltage drop, and other various substation components.
- Perform substation field support and field pre-inspection for “turn-key” substation projects consisting of protection panels, circuit switchers, circuit breakers, transformers, control house, and supporting equipment.
- Mentor new engineers.
