Electrical Engineering Associate III

Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)•Austin, TX

19h

About The Position

LCRA’s NERC compliance group is seeking an electrical engineer to join our team. Your expertise will contribute to keeping our generation facilities in line with national and state requirements by using your knowledge of electrical system modeling such as ETAP and Matlab to perform load flow and Arc Flash Calculations. We’re looking for someone who strives for excellence and demonstrates our core values of safety, respect, service, initiative, and integrity in everything they do. If you have a firm foundation in protective relay settings to provide support to plants and manage compliance testing such as reactive or AVR/PSS, we want you to apply.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science.
Four or more years of post-Bachelors engineering experience relating to the area of engineering specialization required to perform the job.
Driver's license

Nice To Haves

Experience using ETAP and PSSE software.
Experience with Protective Relay systems.
Knowledge of ERCOT protocols, Nodal Operating Guides and NERC Standards is a plus.
Familiarity with IEEE, NFPA, NEC, NESC, and other applicable industry standards.
Ability to evaluate generation unit trips caused by an 86 lockout relay and authorize unit restart.

Responsibilities

Work with the NERC Compliance Department and Information Security Office to ensure that the necessary processes and procedures applicable to each NERC CIP system are developed and implemented within their respective group.
Review projects relating to the NERC CIP systems which may have a regulatory impact, and make sure the drawings and documents for that system are updated and stored.
Coordinate NERC compliance implementation, communication, and ensure that users of the respective systems have the necessary training.
Monitor implementation efforts and report potential violations to the NERC Compliance Manager and respective management.
Communicate with the Information Security Manager regarding cyber security concerns or actual incidents.
Maintain documentation of objective evidence to demonstrate NERC CIP regulatory compliance.