HV Substation Protection & Controls Engineer

Socket.dev; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid time off

Job summary

Hut 8 is seeking a Protection & Controls Engineer to design, review, and optimize protection schemes, relay panels, and control systems for HV substations and interconnections across data center campuses.

You will own relay settings, study coordination, and commissioning activities with utility partners and NETA crews, while ensuring adherence to NERC PRC standards and industry practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of protection and controls engineering for HV substations, transmission, or utility interconnections (69kV-345kV).
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; PE license preferred.
• Deep experience with protective relaying and SEL platforms; design, settings, and event analysis.
• Fluency with coordination and fault studies in ASPEN or CAPE; defend settings to utilities.
• Knowledge of NERC PRC standards and utility interconnection processes.
• Experience with commissioning: relay testing and end-to-end tests with NETA crews.
• Familiarity with SCADA/RTU and comms-assisted protection; ability to work with fiber schemes.
• Strong documentation habits; willing to travel 20-35%.

Responsibilities

• Develop and review protection schemes, relay panels, and control designs for HV substations and interconnection facilities.
• Manage relay settings files and version control; align settings with study models.
• Perform protection coordination, fault, and arc-flash studies.
• Support interconnection protection requirements and witness testing with utilities.
• Coordinate commissioning activities with factory and site teams.
• Contribute to standards and templates across P&C program.

Skills

Protection & controls engineering

HV substations

Protection relaying

Relay settings

ASPEN/CAPE

NERC PRC

Commissioning

SCADA/RTU

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SEL relays

ASPEN

CAPE

RTUs

Job description

Hut 8 is seeking a Protection & Controls Engineer to design, review, and optimize protection schemes, relay panels, and control systems for HV substations and interconnections across data center campuses.

You will own relay settings, study coordination, and commissioning activities with utility partners and NETA crews, while ensuring adherence to NERC PRC standards and industry practices.