Principal Engineer - Protection & Control

Iberdrola•Orange, CT

2d•$141,120 - $176,400•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for researching industry best practices to create Protection and Control standards. Responsibilities also include development of new engineering processes and tools, evaluating new P&C technologies, and writes industry white papers. 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

10 years of experience in Protection & Control.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
Understanding of P&C regulation such as FERC, NERC, NPCC.
A broad range of P&C knowledge/experience including wiring design, instrument transformers specifications, coordination studies, digital logic, protection settings, automation, teleprotection.
A strong understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components, per unit, harmonics, transformers, and fault analysis.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
Professional Engineering (PE) license strongly preferred.
Experience with SEL, GE, and Siemens protection relays.
Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS, PTP), networking, real time digital simulators (RTDS), virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.

Responsibilities

Assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, and engineering tools.
Conducts engineering analysis, researching industry papers and manuals.
Make engineering decisions with significant impact to the company.
Lead engineering projects and facilitate meetings with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
Provide informal mentorship to junior engineers.
Develop and instruct P&C training courses.
Authoring engineering standards and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences.
Participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
Work on special one-off projects, such as overhauling arc flash calculation methods, evaluating the feasibility of distribution switching stations, evaluating new substation designs.
Engineering AVANGRID’s first IEC 61850 Process Bus Substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays, expanding relaying laboratories (including use of an RTDS), conducting studies, updating engineering standards, creating internal engineering training courses, and writing conference papers.