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LaBella Associates · 2 weeks ago

Lead Protection & Controls Engineer (Binghamton, NY)

Binghamton, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$100K/yr - $140K/yr

5+ years exp

LaBella Associates is currently seeking qualified candidates for a Lead Protection & Controls Engineer in their Program Management Services Division. The role involves leading protection design for capital projects, ensuring compliance with client standards, and providing design support during implementation and testing.

ArchitectureConsulting

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically, the goal is to ensure that we don't remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes

Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Client TM standards

Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects

Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)

Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings

Review/provide input to Owner's Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects

Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items

Provide feedback to Owner on existing TM standards and help refine the Owner's design practices

Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Owner

Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects

Review/design SCADA point indexes

Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects

Review/design Protection settings and settings basis

Review/design IED Data Maps

Review/create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.)

Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists

Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation

Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items

Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)

Qualification

Protection designRelay coordinationSCADA designEngineering experienceBachelor's degreePE certification

Required

5-10 years of engineering experience in the functional area

Bachelor's degree in engineering or engineering technology

Preferred

PE preferred

Benefits

Flexible Work Schedule

Health/Dental Insurance

401k Plan with Employer Match

Short & Long Term Disability

Profit Sharing

Paid Time Off

Leadership Development Program

Fitness Reimbursement

Tuition Reimbursement

Referral Bonus Program

Wellness Program

Team Building Events

Community Service Events

Company

LaBella Associates

LaBella Associates is an international Architecture, Engineering, Environmental and Planning firm headquartered in Rochester, NY.

Founded in 1978

Rochester, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.labellapc.com/

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