Principal Engineer – Systems Protection, Relay Settings

Posted 16hrs ago

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Principal Relay Settings Engineer designing protective relay schemes and settings for Qualus’s utility and power infrastructure clients. Performing coordination, short-circuit studies, and generation interconnection analysis.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, specify, calculate settings, and coordinate protective relays and relay control schemes
  • Perform modeling, short circuit, and overstressed breaker studies
  • Develop protective relaying recommendations for proposed generation interconnections to clients’ electrical systems
  • Ensure relay settings activities, initiatives, and processes conform to company policies, objectives, and client design standards
  • Present technical solutions to key customers, respond to technical concerns in real time, and answer questions
  • Collaborate with Qualus groups and individuals to develop and implement technical solutions supporting Engineering Department objectives
  • Support multiple projects in parallel

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a power systems focus; an MS Degree in engineering will be considered in lieu of the BS Engineering degree
  • International Engineering Degrees will be considered from an ABET accredited school
  • 12+ years of experience in protection and control engineering and relay settings
  • Demonstrated experience with CAPE and/or ASPEN
  • Professional Engineering (PE) registration is required
  • Professional Engineering registration in the working state is a plus
  • Strong analytical and computer skills
  • Ability to identify necessary software to complete needed design work
  • Strong communications and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to effectively communicate with a wide variety of support personnel
  • Strong commitment to customer service and care
  • Highly motivated "self-starter"
  • Proven multitasking skills
  • Excellent document management and organizational skills
  • CYME familiarity, reclosers/sectionalizing schemes/fuse coordination preferred

Benefits:

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage
  • Retirement Savings Plans, including employer matching where applicable
  • Flexible Spending and/or Health Spending Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Parental Leave
  • Paid Time Off
  • Company Holidays