Lead Power Systems Engineer - (Electric Utility / Renewable Energy)

A bit about us :

We are a leader in the Renewable Energy (Solar) industry. We are seeking a Lead Power Systems Engineer to join our growing team.

This is a remote opportunity with less than 15% travel.

Description :

The Lead Power Systems Engineer is responsible for developing relay settings and technical design support for the relay engineering group.

The Lead Engineer will also perform the role of Owners Engineer for design produced by contractors. The Lead Engineer is responsible for scheduling, engineering labor estimates, relay design estimates, relay settings, communication design, and compliance

What you will do :

• Plan, coordinate, assign, and schedule relay design work tasks including project scope development, cost estimating, proposal development, design preparation, and assembling relay packages for commissioning and testing.
• Lead efforts in the development and implementation of standards for relay equipment, material, design, testing, and construction requirements for transmission substations.
• Implement the company design processes, procedures, and the use of computer-aided design and drafting (CAD) software applications to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency in the station design process.
• Implement the development of relay material specifications, selection, evaluation of materials, and failure analysis to determine the root cause.
• Provide input to budget development related to station design and material procurement for BRP estimators. Aid in cost variance analysis post-project completion to improve estimates.
• Work closely with other engineering groups to coordinate all aspects of solar and battery storage engineering.
• Act as Owners Engineer for design work performed by outside consultants. Responsibility includes evaluation of design per scope of work, standards, and error rate.
• Act as a design engineer for design for in-house projects for the substation group.
• Develop and perform QAQC (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) for relay settings both internally and externally.
• Actively participate in industry forums, conferences, and other company initiatives to support our mission.
• Review and seal drawing sets, relay settings, and associated reports.

Why join us?

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Job Details

Qualifications :

• 9-15+ years of related electric utility engineering experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of electric system components and related communications and protection functions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of relay protection schemes, inverter-based generator protection, DTT, utility coordination, and communication protocols.
• Demonstrated knowledge of generator stability and dynamic operation analysis. Ability to perform study / or produce dynamic simulation files preferred.
• Experience with performing post-fault event analysis preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in system modeling, relay settings, and coordination studies using ETAP, PSSE, CAPE, ASPEN and PSCAD.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze performance, process improvements, and standardization activities.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal, and written skills.
• Flexible and adaptable commercial agility; ability to reorder critical design projects based on new commercial requirements, under tight deadlines and sometimes changing requirements.
• Demonstrated strong organizational skills.

Education and Certifications :

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or electrical and computer engineering required.
• Professional Engineer License required.
11 days ago