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Telex LLC · 1 month ago

Senior Engineer - System Protection and Control

Tempe, AZ, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Telex LLC is seeking a Senior Engineer specializing in System Protection and Control. The role involves providing expert engineering services, managing assignments in a safe and cost-effective manner, and serving as a technical representative in various settings, while overseeing project work plans and mentoring less experienced engineers.

Construction

Responsibilities

Develop/finalize reports and work plans, recommend action, and consider short/long-range objectives and economic and budget considerations

Develop and coordinate departmental project work plans and manage through completion, redirecting when necessary

Lead development of work plans and monitor actual progress of applicable portions, taking any corrective action required

Function as a technical representative in customer, vendor, and contractor meetings

Provide work direction to other staff/contractors on projects as assigned

Manage multiple assignments while training, developing, and mentoring less experienced engineers and other staff

Oversee and/or complete preparation of estimates (cost, work order, schedules)

Analyze data and make recommendations and/or decisions

Maintain and approve technical records (e.g. drawings, files, databases)

Provide engineering assistance for customers and internal staff

Create corporate standards and specifications related to respective expertise

Demonstrate strong technical expertise and awareness of job-related field and continue to remain current in the industry

Perform analysis of system disturbances to determine proper operation of the protection scheme and assist in investigation of root cause

Develop and/or apply new technologies to generation, transmission, and distribution facilities to achieve an optimum level of protection

Provide protective relay scheme insight to help establish the arrangement and location of substation facilities

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

Design and manage the installation of generation, transmission, distribution and industrial facility replacements and upgrades

Develop cabling requirements for relay cabinets, equipment, and relay panels

Develop building layout drawings for control houses and battery buildings

Develop bidding documents, evaluate and establish lowest bids for industrial, distribution, and transmission substations

Develop protective relay settings as required for new facility (generation, transmission, distribution and industrial) equipment protection and modify existing facility protective relay settings to maintain optimum system protection

Perform SME tasks on assigned NERC and/or CIP Compliance standards

Prepare construction, equipment, material specifications, and work scope

Provide project management for protection and control projects in engineering and construction and/or generation production

Maintain and coordinate contracts with equipment suppliers and monitor progress, expediting as required to meet schedules

Coordinate and oversee substation and industrial control system field testing and modification, phasing tests, and other commissioning and check-out activities for all generation, transmission, distribution and industrial protection schemes, with contractors and other Telex departments, at the customer substation and industrial sites

Develop protection system switching procedures

Lead coordination of contractors or staff on project related work, certification of completed work, and recommendation of final acceptance of the project

Monitor the project during construction start-up and recommend modifications necessary to support project success

Perform project management duties for small and larger projects simultaneously and assist other engineers with their projects

Perform all work in a safe and timely manner

Qualification

System protection engineeringProtective relay settingsPower system modelingProject managementTechnical documentationTechnical expertiseMentoringCommunication skills

Required

Expert system protection and control engineering services and support

Manage assignments in a safe, regulatory compliant, timely, and cost-effective manner

Demonstrate robust technical expertise

Responsible for a range of assignments working independently while providing work direction to staff/contractors

Serve as a technical representative in a variety of public and corporate settings

Short-circuit and coordination studies

Protective relay settings

Protection and control system design including one-line diagrams/ac & dc schematics/panel layouts/wiring diagrams

Power system modeling on modeling platforms such as ASPEN OneLiner

Power system disturbance analysis for generation/transmission/distribution/industrial facilities