Power System Protection Engineer — Grid Reliability & Teaching

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

401(k) plan

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. is seeking a Power System Protection Engineer to provide expert technical support and solutions for protection schemes, teaching customers, and ensuring reliability and safety of power grids.

You will engage with utilities and industrial users, design models, analyze relay responses to faults, and contribute to technical papers while traveling up to 25% and benefiting from SEL's employee-owned culture and strong professional growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience with power system protection and relays.
• Knowledge of utility/industrial power systems with emphasis on protection, control, operations.
• Ability to build and maintain customer relationships.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to apply new technologies or solutions to their power systems.
• Design models or demonstrations of new technologies to teach customers how we can enhance their systems.
• Support SEL products and solution troubleshooting to reach root cause.
• Analyze responses of protective relays to power system faults.
• Teach customers how to use SEL products and how protective relays protect equipment.
• Contribute to and review white papers, application guides, industry journals, and technical papers.

Skills

Power protection

Relays

Customer relations

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Master's preferred

Job description

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. is seeking a Power System Protection Engineer to provide expert technical support and solutions for protection schemes, teaching customers, and ensuring reliability and safety of power grids.

You will engage with utilities and industrial users, design models, analyze relay responses to faults, and contribute to technical papers while traveling up to 25% and benefiting from SEL's employee-owned culture and strong professional growth.