Lead Engineer Protection & Control
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Orange, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Job Title: Lead Engineer - Protection & Control
Location: Orange CT
Reports to: Supervisor - Protection & Control - Philosophy and Standards
Work Type: Office
The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $ 00
What We Offer:
Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
Generous performancebased bonuses
12% 401(k) match
Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Professional development and clear career advancement pathways
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Summary
The Philosophy and Standards group is a support function for the Protection and Control (P&C) Department. The Philosophy and Standards group is responsible for researching industry best practices to create P&C standards. This group also develops new engineering processes and tools. System scope includes transmission substation and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power New York State Electric & Gas Rochester Gas & Electric and United Illuminating.
Responsibilities
- General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards relay setting file templates record keeping processes and engineering tools. The engineer will also participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
- The position requires conducting engineering analysis researching white papers and manuals organizing and facilitating meeting presenting to technical and non-technical audiences and documenting assignments. This position requires collaboration with other P&C engineers other departments contractors and vendors.
- As a lead engineer this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously. The lead engineer is expected to provide informal mentorship to junior engineers.
- Active projects include engineering a pilot IEC 61850 process bus substation using GOOSE and SV evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays (VPR) and Centralized Substation Protection (CSP) evaluating new relay vendors updating engineering standards and writing conference papers.
Education and Experience
- Minimum 7 years of Power System Electrical Engineering experience of which minimum 4 years of Protection & Control Substation Automation or Substation Testing and Commissioning experience.
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
- Due to the open-ended nature of the departments responsibilities a strong understanding of power system fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components per unit harmonics Internal Use transformers and fault analysis. An understanding of traditional generation and inverter-based generation is preferred.
- Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models Sampled Values MMS) networking real time simulators virtualized protection relays and centralized substation protection.
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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut Maine Massachusetts and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.
Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission operations and cyber security business areas in Connecticut Maine Massachusetts and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections training audit engagement and required evidence retention and will be communicated by the employees management.
Job Posting End Date:
SeptemberRequired Experience:
Senior IC
