Lead Protection & Control Engineer

K&A Engineering; City of Rochester (NY); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K with Company Match

Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO

Tuition Reimbursement

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

K&A Engineering is seeking a Lead Protection & Control Engineer based in Rochester, New York. The role involves responsibility for overall protection design and project management within electrical engineering, focusing on relay settings, automation design, and SCADA systems. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and 10 years in relay/protection settings experience. A hybrid work schedule is offered with a salary range of $112,000 - $120,000 annually along with excellent benefits including medical and a 401K plan.

Qualifications

• 10 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience.
• Professional level skills in MicroStation and AutoCAD are necessary.
• Must have IEC 61850/Goose experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects.
• Perform detailed review of existing protection schemes.
• Review contractor provided relay settings and logic diagrams.
• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects.

Skills

Protection design

Relay/protection settings engineering

Substation Design

MicroStation

AutoCAD

IEC 61850/Goose

Microsoft Project

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Tools

Microsoft Project

MicroStation

AutoCAD

Job description

Lead Protection & Control Engineer, Rochester, New York

K&A Engineering is a privately held company providing comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program and project management, construction management, and support services to power utility and industrial clients.

We specialize in substation, transmission, distribution, distributed energy resources, and EPC services. We excel in solving complex challenges with precision-driven solutions and foster a culture of excellence.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Lead Protection & Control Engineer to join our team in Rochester, New York. In this role, you’ll work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Avangrid TM standards
• Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically, the goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes.
• Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects
• Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)
• Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings
• Review/provide input to Customer’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items
• Provide feedback to Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices
• Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer
• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects
• Review/design SCADA point indexes
• Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects
• Review/design Protection settings and settings basis
• Review/design IED Data Maps
• Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items
• Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background and knowledge of all utilities engineering disciplines
• 10 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Proven experience in Substation Design should include general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, Equipment cable trays, cable design, conduit fill calcs, rigid bus calcs
• Professional level skills in MicroStation, AutoCAD
• IEC 61850/Goose experience required
• PE preferred
• Hybrid Schedule- Must be local to New York

Pay Range

Pay Range: $112,000 - $120,000 annually

The salary range for this role considers a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to technical ability, experience and training, licenses and certifications, and other related skillsets. The disclosed range is an estimate and has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account
• 401K (Traditional and Roth with Company Match)
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance
• Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Relocation Assistance