Relay Engineering Specialist II

Mesa Associates, Inc•Edwardsville, IL

11d•$86,452 - $111,228

About The Position

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Requirements

Exercises judgment in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
Experience in PSCAD, MathCAD, SKM, CAPE, ASPEN, acSELerator (SEL-5030), ETAP, Siemens PSS E is preferred.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Good interpersonal skills.
Accept responsibility for technical adequacy of deliverables designed or checked.

Nice To Haves

Experience in PSCAD
Experience in MathCAD
Experience in SKM
Experience in CAPE
Experience in ASPEN
Experience in acSELerator (SEL-5030)
Experience in ETAP
Experience in Siemens PSS E

Responsibilities

Act as Lead Engineer on moderately complex studies and settings projects, interfacing with clients, other engineering firms, and internal departments.
Identify study/settings input requirements and coordinate the collection of input information and data.
Conceptualize the initial design approach for a major project phase or have overall responsibility for engineering work on a routine project.
Prepare and verify calculations using engineering formulas, skills, or application-specific software.
Manage personal task assignments to ensure adherence to scope, schedule, and budget.
Monitor project execution milestones and schedules.
Perform technical and coordination checking/review of deliverables and other project or study documents.
Ensure deliverables comply with Business Unit procedures and meet applicable design requirements.
Prepare reports documenting the process and results of studies or settings performed.
Adhere to client/industry standard practices and procedures.
Work with clients to assist them in meeting their compliance requirements.
Mentor less experienced associates.
Use good verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills with team members and clients.
Accept responsibility for the technical adequacy of deliverables designed or checked.
Lead studies and work under the direction of others to complete assignments on schedule and under budget.
Develop relay protection schemes using microprocessor-based relays to protect transmission and distribution assets.
Perform protective device coordination for transmission lines, buses, transformers, capacitor banks, circuit breakers, and reactors.
Develop logic settings to support desired relay schemes.
Perform area protective device coordination studies.
Develop system component modeling.