Protection & Controls Engineer

K&A Engineering; Orange (CT); On-site; USD 105,500 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401K with Company Match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO

Relocation Assistance

Job summary

K&A Engineering, located in Orange, Connecticut, is seeking a highly motivated Protection & Controls Engineer to join our team. The role involves leading the design of protection schemes for capital projects, ensuring compliance with standards, and reviewing contractor documentation. Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and have at least 7 years of relevant experience, along with proficiency in essential software tools. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package offered.

Qualifications

• 7 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience.
• Proven experience in Substation Design.
• PE requested.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed review of existing protection schemes for new design.
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects.
• Provide design support during implementation/testing.

Skills

Relay/protection settings engineering experience

Proficient in Microsoft Project

Proficient in Microsoft Excel

Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint

Proficient in Microsoft Word

Professional skills in MicroStation

Professional skills in AutoCAD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Job description

Protection & Controls Engineer

Location: Orange, Connecticut.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Protection & Controls Engineer to join our team at K&A Engineering. In this role, you will work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people-focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions will be valued and celebrated.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Avangrid TM standards.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 7 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.
• PE requested.

Pay Range

$105,500—$115,000 annually

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

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.