Protection & Control Engineer — Substations & Relay Design

New York State Electric & Gas; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 88,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Performance-based bonuses

12% 401(k) match

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Career development

Job summary

AVANGRID's engineering team in Rochester/Binghamton seeks an Engineer to design and configure automation, data collection, protection, and control subsystems across a vast electric delivery network in NY and New England. The role focuses on relay settings, protection coordination, and regulatory compliance.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of electrical engineering experience, a bachelor’s degree, and hands-on experience with Aspen OneLiner, SEL/GE relay programming, IEC61850, and protection

Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years of engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or technology.
• Experience with ASPEN OneLiner, SEL & GE Relay Programming, IEC61850, and protection coordination analysis.
• Familiar with FERC, NERC, NPCC, and state regulations.
• Strong knowledge of power system analysis, protection fundamentals, and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Perform relay settings design and relay coordination analysis for electric transmission and substation protection systems in support of capital construction programs.
• Lead engineering contractors and consultants performing protection system settings for capital projects.
• Analyze disturbance event operations, ensuring protection schemes perform flawlessly. Develop and deliver clear, impactful fault analysis reports to management, highlighting corrective actions and valuable lessons learned.
• Lead NERC compliance programs applicable to substation assets and act as a subject matter expert during audits.
• Review of large customer interconnections and distributed energy resource interconnections to substations, transmission circuits and distribution circuits
• Represent AVANGRID on regional and national committees.

Skills

Protection concepts

Relay settings

Coordination analysis

Regulatory knowledge

Power system analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Tools

ASPEN OneLiner

SEL/GE Relay Programming

IEC61850

Job description

AVANGRID's engineering team in Rochester/Binghamton seeks an Engineer to design and configure automation, data collection, protection, and control subsystems across a vast electric delivery network in NY and New England. The role focuses on relay settings, protection coordination, and regulatory compliance.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years of electrical engineering experience, a bachelor’s degree, and hands-on experience with Aspen OneLiner, SEL/GE relay programming, IEC61850, and protection