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ENERCON · 10 hours ago

Relay Settings and System Protection Senior Engineer

Lake Mary, FL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$123K/yr - $193K/yr

10+ years exp

Enercon Services, Inc. is seeking a Relay Settings and System Protection Senior Engineer to join their team. The role involves designing and optimizing protective relay systems, providing technical leadership, and ensuring compliance with industry standards while collaborating with various teams to implement innovative solutions.

Environmental ConsultingManufacturingRenewable EnergyWind Energy

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, specify, calculate settings, and coordinate protective relays and relay control schemes

Develop and maintain logic schemes in protective relays and power system specific logic controllers

Develop protection schemes including transmission, distribution, generation, and renewable energy sources

Provide technical guidance to other engineers

Confidently and comfortably present technical solutions to clients, respond in real time to technical concerns and answer questions in a knowledgeable, articulate manner

Perform short-circuit analysis, time-current coordination, step-distance coordination, develop relay settings, prepare test plans, provide commissioning assistance, perform protection system event analysis and troubleshooting, and develop NERC PRC compliance materials

Ensure all relay settings activities, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with industry standards, the company’s established policies and objectives, and with client standards

Collaborate with the appropriate groups and individuals to develop and implement technical solutions

Qualification

Electrical EngineeringPower System ProtectionRelay SettingsSystem Modeling SoftwareNERC PRC StandardsAnalytical SkillsMultitasking SkillsDocument ManagementSCADA SystemsCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university

Professional Engineering registration or plan to become registered within one year

A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience

Experience in power system protection and controls engineering and relay settings

Proven experience in system modeling and fault analysis software (ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, or EasyPower), and Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, and Access). Experience with Mathcad is a plus

Strong knowledge of relay coordination studies, and development of associated protective relay settings for systems ranging from 12.47 kV to 345 kV is required. Experience with 500 kV and 765 kV systems is a plus

Experience applying protection system engineering practices and principles in the following areas: transmission line, bus, transformer, capacitor bank, reactor bank, feeder, generator, motor, and communication assisted protection schemes

Familiar with the application of NERC PRC standards for compliance

Must have strong analytical and computer skills

Strong communication and interpersonal skills; must effectively communicate with a wide variety of internal team members and clients

Highly motivated 'self‐starter' with a strong commitment to maintaining strong client relationships

Proven multitasking skills

Excellent document management and organizational skills