Senior Engineer - Protection & Control

Avangrid; City of Binghamton (NY); On-site; USD 106,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Job summary

Avangrid is seeking a Senior Engineer - Protection & Control to advance protective relaying standards across transmission, substation, and distribution. You will research industry practices, develop P&C engineering standards, and evaluate new technologies, collaborating with cross-functional teams in a large utility environment.

This office-based role in Rochester or Binghamton, NY requires 5 years in electrical engineering and 2 years in P&C, with a BS in EE.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering.
• 2 years of experience specifically in P&C, substation engineering, substation testing and commissioning, or similar engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop P&C engineering standards and relay setting templates.
• Conduct engineering analyses and research industry papers for improvements.
• Lead projects and coordinate with engineers, vendors and other departments.

Skills

Growth & Continuous Improvement

Initiative & Change

Focused on Results

Customer Centric

Communication

Collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

SEL relays

GE relays

Siemens relays

IEC 61850

Job description

Job Title: Senior Engineer - Protection & Control

Location: Rochester, NY OR Binghamton, NY

Work Type: Office

The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $ 106,000 to $132,500

We do provide GREAT BENEFITS !

Job Summary

This role is responsible for researching industry best practices to create Protection and Control standards. Responsibilities also include development of new engineering processes and tools, evaluating new P&C technologies, and writes industry white papers.System scope includes transmission, substation, and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, and United Illuminating.

Key Responsibilities

General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, and engineering tools. Conducts engineering analysis, researching industry papers and manuals. As a senior engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously. The senior engineer is expected to lead engineering projects and facilitate meeting with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors. Authoring engineering standards and presenting to technical and non-technical audiences. Participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies. Engineers in the Philosophy and Standards group often are requested to work on special one-off projects. Past examples include overhauling arc flash calculation methods, evaluating the feasibility of distribution switching stations, evaluating new substation designs. Active projects include engineering AVANGRID's first IEC 61850 Process Bus Substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays, expanding relaying laboratories (including use of an RTDS), conducting studies, updating engineering standards, creating internal engineering training courses, and writing conference papers.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Electrical Engineering.
• 2 years of experience specifically in P&C, substation engineering, substation testing and commissioning, or similar engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering.
• Due to the open-ended nature of the department's responsibilities, an intuitive understanding of electrical engineering fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components, per unit, harmonics, transformers, and fault analysis.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in electrical engineering preferred.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
• Experience with SEL, GE, and Siemens relays.
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS), networking, real time digital simulators (RTDS), virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.

Job Posting End Date:November-27-2026