Associate System Protection Engineer
About The Position
In this role as an entry level Associate Protection Engineer, you 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. PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, collective bargaining agreements, and internal equity.
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
Nice To Haves
- EIT Certificate
- 2 years of experience in engineering
- 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
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 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
