IDOM USA · 20 hours ago
Protection & Control Engineer
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$105K/yr - $125K/yr
7+ years expIDOM USA is an employee-owned international engineering, architectural and consulting firm with over 5500 professionals. They are seeking a Protection & Control Engineer to perform engineering design oversight on various substation projects and ensure the implementation of protection schemes in accordance with client standards.
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Hiring Manager
Christopher Presson
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 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 model changes as required for individual capital projects
Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items
Provide feedback on existing TM standards and help refine the design practices
Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location
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
7+ years of relay/protection settings engineering experience
Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology
IEC 61850/Goose experience required
5+ years experience in utility projects
Proficiency with National Electrical Safety Code & IEEE / ANSI Standards
Advanced knowledge of power systems protection, underground systems, and transmission & distribution systems
Preferred
Master's Degree
PE or chartered engineer license
Benefits
Work-Life Balance
Flexible Hours
Remote working days
Long term career path, including partner opportunity, in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environments
Company
IDOM USA
IDOM Inc., is the US based part of IDOM, an employee-owned international engineering, architecture and consulting firm.
51-200 employees
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