Senior Electrical Engineer - Power System Protection

SolveNow Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SolveNow Inc. is seeking a senior electrical engineer to advance protection and control projects. You will develop protective setpoints, lead design standards, and guide teams on complex engineering tasks across mega projects.

You will apply system modeling tools (ASPEN, CAPE, CYME, ETAP, SKM) and generate relay setpoint files for SEL AcSELerator Quickset and GE Enervista, coordinating with clients and cross‑functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• 11+ years in transmission/Protection & Control.
• Active engineering licensure for EOR where required.
• Experience with QA/QC, project leadership, and client communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on design standards and policies.
• Develop protective setpoints and complex engineering deliverables.
• Coordinate multi-discipline activities and project schedules.
• Manage budgets, schedules, and staff on projects.
• Support business development and client relationships.

Skills

Protection & Control concepts

Leadership & mentoring

Project staffing & budgeting

Quality & QA/QC

Client coordination

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Engineering licensure/registration

Tools

ASPEN

CAPE

CYME

ETAP

SKM

Mathcad

Excel

DNP

SEL

MMS

Modbus

IEC 61850 (GOOSE, MMS, SV)

Job description

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Function as a technical subject matter expert and specialist.
• Develop protective setpoints per industry standards, best practices and client requirements.
• Work with system modeling software programs (ASPEN, CAPE, CYME, ETAP, SKM).
• Develop downloadable setpoint files on multiple propietary relay manufacturer software platforms (SEL AcSELerator Quickset, GE Enervista, etc.).
• Develop and manipulate logic commonly utilized in protection and control schemes.

Multiple locations available! Please refer to job posting header for full list of eligible locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and policies. May own, maintain, update, or develop engineering standards and guides. Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects or disciplines.
• Applies knowledge and ensures compliance with quality program. Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality. Supports continuous improvement, change management and risk management efforts.
• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects. Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection. Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles. Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements. Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems. Responsible for ensuring project teams delegate appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff. Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments. Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects. Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects. Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.
• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects. Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects.
• Works to identify future client needs and how to better position for the future. May offer other services to the client. Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities.
• Serves as the technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field. Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems. Typically supports multiple projects on very complex technical challenges. Typical roles include being recognized as an industry expert, participating in professional societies by presenting papers, acting as a section lead for a large or complex specialty area, an engineering consultant for larger scale projects. May support the chief engineers or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes.
• Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions. May participate in compensation management, succession planning, disciplinary actions, employee relations and workforce planning. Actively mentors lower level and mid level professionals and identifies successors to train in the specifics of their role.

Management Responsibilities

Supervises work of others. Responsible for hiring, discipline, and pay administration of their subordinates.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10-15years of experience in Transmission industry.
• Significant working experience with Protection & Control design concepts including one-lines, three-lines, schematics, wiring, etc.
• 10 years of extensive experience in development of protective relay settings (line, transformer, breaker, bus, etc.).
• Extensive experience with commonly utilized system modeling software programs (ASPEN, CAPE, CYME, ETAP, SKM, etc.).
• Advanced knowledge and application of the predominant protection schemes and philosophies which are encountered in Transmission, Distribution, and Renewable Collector Substations.
• Extensive experience with Mathcad and Excel software for protective setting calculations.
• Experience with commonly utilized communication protocols (DNP, SEL, MMS, Modbus, etc.).
• Experience with IEC 61850 (GOOSE, MMS, SV) and its implementation.
• Advanced knowledge and application of NERC-PRC standards and other commonly utilized industry standards.
• Proven ability to independently develop written communication and to facilitate coordination with team members and clients.
• Proven ability to work cooperatively in a team environment.
• Proven ability to lead small projects including management of project schedules, budgets, and staffing.
• Extensive experience supporting proposal development- including, scope of work, level of work, engineering estimates, schedule.
• Strong leaderships skills, with desire to train and develop early career and/or inexperienced professionals.
• Extensive experience functioning in a QA/QC capacity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in Engineering work.
• Minimum of 11 years related work experience.
• Holds an active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.