Protection & Controls Engineering Manager

Electric Power Engineers; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

Generous PTO and paid holidays

401K with up to a 4% match

Flexible work including hybrid options

Job summary

Electric Power Engineers is seeking a Protection & Controls Engineering Manager to lead power systems engineering initiatives. This remote position requires a Licensed Professional Engineer with over 8 years of experience in system protection and control. You will design protection systems, ensure NERC PRC compliance, and support business development activities. A strong foundation in transmission power systems and tools like ASPEN and ETAP is essential. The role offers comprehensive benefits, flexible working, and the opportunity to impact community energy solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in system protection and control required.
• Strong technical foundation in transmission power systems protection and planning.
• Experience with transmission protection design guidelines and ANSI/IEEE standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide power systems engineering expertise in protection design and coordination.
• Perform system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit.
• Lead process improvement efforts focused on maximizing team bandwidth.

Skills

Power systems protection

Transmission system design

Communication and teamwork skills

Inverter-based power plants

Education

Licensed Professional Engineer (Texas, Illinois, or California)

Tools

ASPEN

CAPE

ETAP

Powerbase

SEL Quickset

GE Enervista UR Setup

Job description

Overview

We are designing the Grid of the future. We are innovators by nature. For over 50 years, Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe to focus on complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As an early leader in the renewables space, we continue to see significant opportunities to build a sustainable and secure Grid. Join a team committed to making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can continue to create the “grid of the future”!

Responsibilities

The Protection & Controls Engineering Manager will provide power systems engineering expertise in protection design and coordination analyses on the transmission systems. This will include designing protection systems including overcurrent, distance, differential, and communication-aided protection, and wide area protection coordination. The Transmission System Protection Engineer will also focus on system protection schemes and studies involving generation interconnection protection and NERC PRC compliance, ensuring adequate safety and reliability of the bulk electric system.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in power systems including experience with system protection software and tools, transmission modeling tools, conventional and non-conventional generator protective and ride-through functions, and industry standards, and can utilize that background effectively in a fast-paced environment.

How You Can Make An Impact

• Perform system protection and coordination studies involving transmission generation interconnection protection schemes
• Provide guidance and recommendations for system protection philosophies and standards to clients and stakeholders
• Apply system protection engineering practices and principles in one or more of the following areas: transmission lines and buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, grounding transformers, generators, and communication-assisted protection schemes
• Perform system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit, equipment duty, relay device coordination studies and root cause analysis
• NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027
• Substation and transmission line design experience is of great interest
• Develop protective relay and device settings for transmission and sub-transmission systems ranging from 69 kV - 500 kV
• Review protective relay operations and system outages, identifying system disturbances and providing resolutions to operational control problems
• Assess data and model quality to ensure successful coordination between protective devices and identify necessary corrections or enhancements
• Direct and guide clients to operate equipment or modify settings to improve system reliability
• Model transmission system elements within planning and operational software to identify expected impacts under various scenarios
• Communicate challenges, lessons learned, and critical information to team members to ensure operational success
• Identify process improvement opportunities and develop corresponding modification plans and justification
• Communicate with a variety of work groups to improve transparency and ensure the overall success of the project
• Develop and maintain process documentation, flow charts, whitepapers, working papers, and other materials necessary for the continuity and success of the project
• Develop communication materials and provide status updates to technical leaders, project teams, or affected stakeholder groups
• Lead process improvement efforts identifying opportunities to enhance organizational efficiencies focused on maximizing team bandwidth while ensuring quality and timeliness of client deliverables
• Support business development activities including development of RFP responses and scope of work statements for clients, outlining EPE deliverables and projected completion dates
• This role will manage/supervise a team

Qualifications

Bring your passion, here’s what’s needed:

• Licensed Professional Engineer required. (Texas, Illinois, or California)
• 8+ years experience in system protection and control required
• Strong technical foundation in transmission power systems protection and planning
• Experience with ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, Powerbase, SEL Quickset, and GE Enervista UR Setup
• Experience working with SEL equipment, software, and/or developing programming files using SEL Quickset
• Experience with CYME, Synergi, Windmil/LightTable or other distribution power flow software is an add on
• Experience with inverter-based power plants is strongly preferred
• Exposure to transmission protection design guidelines and philosophies is preferred
• Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE guidelines for designing and studies of transmission system protection
• Communication and teamwork skills strongly preferred
• Versatility and ability to adapt to changing priorities

How We Support You

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
• Flexible work including hybrid and remote possibilities based on position.

Location: This position is remote US

Travel: Travel will be needed (20%+)

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