Job description

Job Title: Substation control Engineer

Location: Lake Mary, FL or Mebane, NC

Direct Hire

Mission Statement:

In this role you will be responsible for designing and executing the protection and control engineering components of projects and ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with policy, contractual agreements, quality standards, HSE requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitments. Also, you will be responsible for engineering analysis and troubleshooting for automation, control, and protection in power systems.

Approach customers with integrity and respect for long lasting relationships. You will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives per business metric.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Technical Contribution - Protection and control engineering design for MV / LV power systems. Review and correctly interprets customer specifications and single line diagrams to select adequate protective relays and design / program related automation functions.

Manages the complete life cycle of protection and control engineering tasks including review of customer engineering documents, preparation of scoping document, implementation of relay logic with engineering tools, configuration of IEC61850 for peer-to-peer communication, development of relay system description and testing procedures. Support system testing during Factory Accept Test (FAT) and Site Integration Test (SAT), and troubleshooting.

Coordinate work to execute engineering tasks ensuring timely release of design documents.

2. Sales Support - Providing presales support for proof of concept and system architecture review / recommendations.

3. Planning and Control – Developing presentations, demonstrations and lab set up for protection & control projects for customer projects and for proof of concept. Develop and maintenance of protection and controls architectures and standard solutions.

4. Change management – Coordinate and drive continuous improvement activities and quality projects. Utilize change management to implement and improve relevant processes, policies, and procedures to improve effectiveness across the engineering team.

5. Risk management – Reviewing and providing feedback on network requirements and application. Consult within the engineering team to determine project milestone completion and to maintain committed delivery dates.

6. Customer focus - Establish and maintain relationships with required external and internal stakeholders to ensure that the customer requirements are understood and being achieved. Providing support for troubleshooting protection, control, and automation projects over the phone and / or on site.

7. Communication - Effectively communicate technical aspects of Projection, control and automation related project activities vertically and horizontally in the organization.

Dimensions:

· Provide design and engineering support to meet business metrics regarding safety, quality, on-time delivery, and standards maintenance. Effectively communicate with internal and external customers, cross cultural, and diverse teams for successful planning and execution of multi-discipline protection and control schemes for power systems.

· Subordinates:Functional: Protection, controls and automation design and engineering, IEC 61850 networks, power system analysis and troubleshooting, protection and control standards, GOOSE / SMV

Knowledge, Skills, Experience:

Qualifications/Requirements:

· Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

· Minimum of 8 years of experience in power systems design regarding protection and control.

· Must possess a strong technical background and knowledge of protection and control systems for LV / MV and HV power systems.

· Must be familiar with power system architectures, troubleshooting tools for protection systems and power systems analysis.

· Proven experience with IEC 61850 based substation automation schemes.

· Experience with other protective relay communication protocols including DNP & Modbus is highly desirable.

· Problem solver and a team player with hands on experience

· Customer focused

· Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

· Ability to travel up to 20%.

Desired Qualifications:

· Demonstrated teamwork, quality control, risk analysis and risk mitigation.

· Relion relays and SSC600 hands on design and configuration experience.

· Strong understanding on SCADA and automation systems.

· Proficient with MS office tools including Visio or equivalent and other applicable software programs.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Salary: Up to $135,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Experience:

• IEC 61850: 8 years (Preferred)
• SCADA and automation systems: 8 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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