Lead Engineer - Protection & Control
Iberdrola•Orange, CT
•$130,000 - $160,400•Onsite
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of Power System Electrical Engineering experience.
- Minimum 4 years of Protection & Control, Substation Automation, or Substation Testing and Commissioning experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Strong understanding of power system fundamentals, including sequential components, per unit, harmonics, Internal Use transformers, and fault analysis.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
- Understanding of traditional generation and inverter-based generation.
- Experience or knowledge in IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS).
- Experience or knowledge in networking.
- Experience or knowledge in real time simulators.
- Experience or knowledge in virtualized protection relays.
- Experience or knowledge in centralized substation protection.
Responsibilities
- Assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, record keeping processes, and engineering tools.
- Participating in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
- Conducting engineering analysis, researching white papers and manuals, organizing and facilitating meetings, presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, and documenting assignments.
- Collaborating with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
- Proposing solutions to open-ended challenges.
- Working mostly autonomously.
- Providing informal mentorship to junior engineers.
- 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.
- Writing conference papers.
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career advancement pathways
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
