Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE) has been a leader in the power and energy sector for over 50 years, focusing on engineering and grid modeling challenges. The Protection & Controls Engineering Manager will provide expertise in protection design and coordination analyses on transmission systems, ensuring safety and reliability of the bulk electric system.
Responsibilities
- Perform system protection and coordination studies involving transmission generation interconnection protection schemes
- Providing guidance and recommendations for system protection philosophies and standards to clients and stakeholders
- Applying system protection engineering practices and principles in one or more of the following areas: transmission lines and buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, grounding transformers, generators, and communication-assisted protection schemes
- Performing system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit, equipment duty, relay device coordination studies and root cause analysis
- NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027
- Substation and transmission line design experience is of great interest
- Developing protective relay and device settings for transmission and sub-transmission systems ranging from 69 kV - 500 kV
- Review protective relay operations and system outages, identifying system disturbances and providing resolutions to operational control problems
- Assess data and model quality to ensure successful coordination between protective devices and identify necessary corrections or enhancements
- Direct and guide clients to operate equipment or modify settings to improve system reliability
- Model transmission system elements within planning and operational software to identify expected impacts under various scenarios
- Communicate challenges, lessons learned, and critical information to team members to ensure operational success
- Identify process improvement opportunities and develop corresponding modification plans and justification
- Communicate with a variety of work groups to improve transparency and ensure the overall success of the project
- Develop and maintain process documentation, flow charts, whitepapers, working papers, and other materials necessary for the continuity and success of the project
- Develop communication materials and provide status updates to technical leaders, project teams, or affected stakeholder groups
- Lead process improvement efforts identifying opportunities to enhance organizational efficiencies focused on maximizing team bandwidth while ensuring quality and timeliness of client deliverables
- Support business development activities including development of RFP responses & scope of work statements for clients, outlining EPE deliverables and projected completion dates
- Experience leveraging AI and automation tools responsibly to improve quality, productivity and innovation under experience (bring your passion section)
- This role will manage/supervise a team
Skills
- Licensed Professional Engineer required. (Texas, Illinois, or California)
- 8+ years experience in system protection and control required
- Strong technical foundation in transmission power systems protection and planning
- Experience with ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, Powerbase, SEL Quickset, and GE Enervista UR Setup
- Experience working with SEL equipment, software, and/or developing programming files using SEL Quickset
- Experience with CYME, Synergi, Windmil/LightTable or other distribution power flow software is an add on
- NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027
- Substation and transmission line design experience is of great interest
- Experience with inverter-based power plants is strongly preferred
- Exposure to transmission protection design guidelines and philosophies is preferred
- Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE guidelines for designing and studies of transmission system protection
- Communication and Teamwork skills strongly preferred
- Versatility and ability to adapt to changing priorities
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you.
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- Work with industry leaders
- 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
- Flexible Work including hybrid and remote possibilities based on position.
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