Associate Protection Engineer

PG&E•San Ramon, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Protection Engineer will provide support to projects, protection studies and perform protection job duties for transmission voltages 230 kV and below under direction of a supervisor or a more experienced engineer. This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and your assigned work location based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited curriculum in the US or the equivalent from outside the US
Able to apply basic engineering principles and theory
Basic understanding of symmetrical component theory and ability to perform fault calculations
Basic knowledge of logic gate theory and control circuitry
Able to read and understand Operating, Single line, SLM&R, and Schematic diagrams
Ability to quickly learn protection concepts and their application

Nice To Haves

EIT Certificate
2 years of experience in engineering

Responsibilities

Provide protection engineering support for projects and studies.
Issue protection requirements and prepare description of operations for non-standard and localized RAS schemes
Conduct short circuit studies, calculate short circuit line impedance
Determine and issue relay and automatics settings
Support relay system installations, such as review test program, end-to-end test, load check, direction check, relay release, etc.
Conduct area coordination studies
Participate in project walkdown and project meetings
Provide construction drawing reviews
Update and maintain records, such as Aspen relay data base, transformer data sheet, short circuit base case, hard copy files, and automatics data base, job files, port assignment sheets, breaker files, etc.
Review and approve new tools and training prior to rollout
Design and set localized RAS schemes based on Operation Engineering requirements
Identify existing protection deficiencies
Provide normal and emergency maintenance and operation support.
Provide fault location
Investigate questionable relay operations, perform remote event retrieval, and implement corrective actions
Process clearance request and provide specific protection setup
Assist technicians, operators for routine maintenance and operation work
Provide project and routine M&O support to Hydro generation
Manage digital fault recorders and perform event retrieval
Conduct FERC generation interconnection studies and third-party load interconnections