Protection & Control Technician — Remote, Nationwide Travel

NES Fircroft; United States; On-site; USD 69,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Per diem

Paid travel

Career progression

Job summary

NES Fircroft is seeking a Protection & Control Technician to join our growing field services team. This remote role covers nationwide travel and involves testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and startup activities on critical power infrastructure across data centers, substations, industrial facilities, renewable sites, and EPC projects.

You will read schematics, test protective relays with equipment like Doble/Omicron/Megger, and coordinate with clients and field crews to deliver safe,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Protection & Control or substation commissioning experience.
• Experience testing protective relays with equipment such as Doble, Omicron, Megger, or similar.
• Ability to read electrical drawings and troubleshoot protection and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform P&C testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and startup activities.
• Test and commission protective relays, control systems, and substation equipment.
• Support utility, industrial, renewable energy, and data center power projects.
• Read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, protection drawings, and AC/DC elementary drawings.
• Troubleshoot relay logic, control wiring, communications, and protection schemes.
• Support SCADA checkout, RTU commissioning, and point-to-point verification where required.
• Coordinate with customers, engineers, contractors, and field teams to deliver projects safely and successfully.
• Support outage planning, commissioning documentation, and field reporting.

Skills

P&C testing

Relay testing

Substation commissioning

Electrical drawings reading

Field installation/ commissioning

Tools

Doble

Omicron

Megger

Job description

NES Fircroft is seeking a Protection & Control Technician to join our growing field services team. This remote role covers nationwide travel and involves testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and startup activities on critical power infrastructure across data centers, substations, industrial facilities, renewable sites, and EPC projects.

You will read schematics, test protective relays with equipment like Doble/Omicron/Megger, and coordinate with clients and field crews to deliver safe,