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Telex LLC · 1 month ago

Principal Engineer - System Protection and Control

Dallas, TX, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

Telex LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer who serves as a key technical contributor and advisor across business units. This role involves providing expert advice, managing complex projects, and mentoring junior staff while focusing on engineering design and compliance within the power system domain.

Construction

Responsibilities

Provide expert advice and counsel by utilizing extensive and diversified knowledge of engineering design, principles, practices, and project management

Suggest and implement innovative and cost-effective solutions to resolve complex, unique, hazardous, or critical problems

Provide technical input and review of internal regulatory compliance documentation

Serve as project manager or the technical lead for complex and highly technical projects

Provide opinions on issues related to corporate strategy and individual business unit initiatives

Act as a technical expert, provide written testimony, and serve as a key witness in court of law hearings, state agency proceedings, and legislative sessions

Provide technical commentary and input on pending legislation affecting company operations

Develop, foster, and maintain working relationships with manufacturers, vendors, utilities, and consulting firms

Mentor project team members and junior staff

Attend trade shows, conferences, workshops, seminars, user group meetings, and other educational opportunities on a routine basis

Recommend and cost justify engineering projects to improve company and customer operational efficiencies, mitigate reoccurring failures, improve system restoration time, increase equipment longevity, and reduce cost

Perform accurate, complete evaluations of engineering alternatives and the identification of the optimal solution for the electric power system

Perform root-cause analysis and recommend approaches to mitigate future failures or improve processes

Provide direction and technical assistance with digital computer programs and perform analysis as needed including power quality, fault, and system coordination studies, loss evaluations, relay software, relay event analysis, protection asset databases, and arc flash

Develop and direct detailed drawings for relaying single lines, secondary protective relay schemes and schematics, low voltage equipment power, and control system connections for generation, transmission, and distribution protection

Establish, maintain, and improve relationships with internal and external customers, including monitoring the relationships and initiating actions to improve relationships as needed

Collaborate with local, state, and federal government agencies for permits and authorization

Performs all work in a safe and timely manner

Qualification

Power system modelingProtectionControl designProject managementRoot-cause analysisTechnical consultingRelationship managementMentoringTechnical writing

Required

Extensive and diversified knowledge of engineering design, principles, practices, and project management

Ability to suggest and implement innovative and cost-effective solutions to resolve complex, unique, hazardous, or critical problems

Experience providing technical input and review of internal regulatory compliance documentation

Experience serving as project manager or the technical lead for complex and highly technical projects

Ability to provide opinions on issues related to corporate strategy and individual business unit initiatives

Experience acting as a technical expert, providing written testimony, and serving as a key witness in court of law hearings, state agency proceedings, and legislative sessions

Ability to provide technical commentary and input on pending legislation affecting company operations

Experience developing, fostering, and maintaining working relationships with manufacturers, vendors, utilities, and consulting firms

Experience mentoring project team members and junior staff

Willingness to attend trade shows, conferences, workshops, seminars, user group meetings, and other educational opportunities on a routine basis

Ability to recommend and cost justify engineering projects to improve company and customer operational efficiencies, mitigate reoccurring failures, improve system restoration time, increase equipment longevity, and reduce cost

Experience performing accurate, complete evaluations of engineering alternatives and the identification of the optimal solution for the electric power system

Experience performing root-cause analysis and recommending approaches to mitigate future failures or improve processes

Ability to provide direction and technical assistance with digital computer programs and perform analysis as needed including power quality, fault, and system coordination studies, loss evaluations, relay software, relay event analysis, protection asset databases, and arc flash

Experience developing and directing detailed drawings for relaying single lines, secondary protective relay schemes and schematics, low voltage equipment power, and control system connections for generation, transmission, and distribution protection

Ability to establish, maintain, and improve relationships with internal and external customers, including monitoring the relationships and initiating actions to improve relationships as needed

Experience collaborating with local, state, and federal government agencies for permits and authorization

Ability to perform all work in a safe and timely manner