Grid Protection & Control Panel Design Engineer

GE-Vernova-; Utah; On-site; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

GE Vernova’s Grid Automation Control & Protection panel design engineer is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for owning the design, programming, testing, and commissioning of protection, SCADA, telecom, and control panels for generator, excitation, transformer, feeder, bus, line protection, and SCADA systems.

This position requires travel up to 10%, collaboration with Operations and Project Management, and strong expertise with AutoCAD/Ebase/SAP to deliver critical power infrastructure

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in panel design, analyzing and creation of specification/compliance statement, single line diagram, schematic diagram, control diagram, wiring drawing and power diagram related to relay protections and control using Autocad/Ebase with detailed knowledge of design, studies, specifications and implementation in electrical generation, transmission and distribution systems.
• Strong knowledge of power systems, protection schemes and communication applications.
• Experience in creation of test procedure and maintenance procedure related to factory and site testing and commissioning protection panel.
• Excellent understanding of theoretical bases for all major protection principles including Distance, Line Differential, Transformer Differential, Bus, Feeder, Generator and Large Motor protection.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer applications/specifications and design protection and control panel layouts, single line diagrams, schematics, power diagrams and BOMs to meet user requirements.
• Take full technical execution responsibility to assigned projects.
• Perform engineering studies and analyses such as Load Calculation and Heat Rise Analysis.
• Create test plans, procedures and reports.
• Develop one line and three line diagrams defining project scope; create detailed AC/DC schematic diagrams including control circuits and metering.

Skills

Panel design

Protection systems

Electrical generation/transmission

LEAN/6 Sigma

Education

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

Ebase

Oracle

SAP

Job description

GE Vernova’s Grid Automation Control & Protection panel design engineer is a hands-on, high-impact role responsible for owning the design, programming, testing, and commissioning of protection, SCADA, telecom, and control panels for generator, excitation, transformer, feeder, bus, line protection, and SCADA systems.

This position requires travel up to 10%, collaboration with Operations and Project Management, and strong expertise with AutoCAD/Ebase/SAP to deliver critical power infrastructure