Senior Grid System Protection Engineer (Hybrid)

Sargent & Lundy; Hamilton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Sargent & Lundy is seeking a Senior System Protection Engineer to join our Grid Services team in a hybrid arrangement, spending three days a week in the office.

The role focuses on protecting transmission assets and substation protection & control design, with responsibilities spanning protection studies, relay settings, and coordination using CAPE/ASPEN and OEM tools. Relocation may be offered based on location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ABET-accredited program.
• 7+ years of experience in system protection engineering for transmission/substation projects.
• Hands-on responsibility for relay settings and protection studies.
• Strong background in protection logic including line, transformer, bus, protection philosophies.
• Experience with CAPE and/or ASPEN or equivalent protection analysis tools.
• Proficiency with protection config tools such as SEL AcSELerator, EnerVista, or other OEM software.
• Experience with P&C drawings: one-lines, three-lines, schematics, wiring/logic diagrams.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and application of protection philosophies and settings for transmission lines, transformers, buses, and capacitor banks.
• Perform system protection studies including short-circuit analysis and relay coordination.
• Configure and troubleshoot microprocessor-based relays using vendor software.
• Develop and review P&C design documents in coordination with substation design teams.
• Support commissioning and field energization activities and fault investigations.

Skills

Relay protection

Protection studies

CAPE/ASPEN

SEL AcSELerator

EnerVista

Powerbase

P&C drawings review

Line protection

Transformer protection

Education

ABET-accredited Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

CAPE

ASPEN

SEL AcSELerator

EnerVista

Powerbase

Job description

Sargent & Lundy is seeking a Senior System Protection Engineer to join our Grid Services team in a hybrid arrangement, spending three days a week in the office.

The role focuses on protecting transmission assets and substation protection & control design, with responsibilities spanning protection studies, relay settings, and coordination using CAPE/ASPEN and OEM tools. Relocation may be offered based on location.