K&A Engineering Consulting · 4 hours ago
Protection & Controls Engineer
Rochester, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$106K/yr - $121K/yr
7+ years expK&A Engineering Consulting is a privately held company specializing in consulting, engineering, and design services for power utility and industrial clients. They are seeking a highly motivated Protection & Controls Engineer to work on challenging projects in the energy and utility sectors, focusing on protection design and automation integration for capital projects.
Business Information SystemsEnergy Efficiency
Hiring Manager
Andrea Tiago
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 Avangrid 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 Customer’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 Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices
Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer
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
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background and knowledge of all utilities engineering disciplines
7 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience
Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
Proven experience in Substation Design should include general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, Equipment cable trays, cable design, conduit fill calcs, rigid bus calcs
Professional level skills in MicroStation, AutoCAD
PE requested
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account
401K (Traditional and Roth with Company Match)
Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO
Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance
Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
Company
K&A Engineering Consulting
At K&A Engineering Consulting, our clients and employees are at the heart of everything we do.
201-500 employees
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Founder, President & CEO
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