Engineering Associate I

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)•Austin, TX

About The Position

LCRA is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join its Transmission Protection team. This role involves developing new and revised protective relay settings, ensuring compliance with NERC PRC-027 and other regulatory standards, performing technical studies for generator interconnections, large loads, and distribution systems, and providing technical support for field personnel. The engineer will collaborate with a team to strengthen LCRA's transmission system, supporting capital plan execution and daily operations and maintenance.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science.
Driver's license

Nice To Haves

A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a background in power systems
Knowledge of symmetrical components used to analyze unbalanced three-phase power systems
Experience interpreting electrical design prints (e.g. relay one-line diagrams, DC schematics, etc.)
Experience with relay coordination software (e.g. ASPEN OneLiner, CAPE, etc.)
Software programming (e.g. Python, VBA, LiveCode, etc.)
A passion for solving interesting and complex engineering problems in a collaborative environment, and a desire to learn, grow, and strive for continuous process improvement
Knowledge of ERCOT protocols and NERC reliability standards is a plus

Responsibilities

Develop new and revised protective relay settings for transmission lines, substation buses, power transformers, autotransformers, capacitor banks, and reactors.
Perform PRC-027 wide-area coordination studies, coordinating with other TSPs to ensure protective relay settings are coordinated in the transmission system.
Review short-circuit reports for new generation and large load projects seeking to interconnect to LCRA's transmission system.
Develop and coordinate transformer protective relay settings with distribution feeder settings.
Develop protective relay settings for temporary off-normal switching configurations.
Collaborate with other Engineers to update and improve Transmission Protection standards and procedures.