Senior Power System Protection Engineer

Rosendin; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP

401K

Annual bonus

Job summary

Rosendin Electric is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to lead design and development of power distribution, protection and automation for complex data center and industrial projects. You will work on protection schemes, relay coordination, and PLC/RTAC based controls, collaborating with vendors and internal teams.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of engineering design experience in electrical power systems. Travel up to 50% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and minimum of 8+ years of engineering design experience in electrical power systems.
• Experience in design and development of protection and automation control for power systems.
• Strong knowledge of SEL, Siemens, ABB, GE relays and protection schemes.

Responsibilities

• Pre-construction design and development of the complete power system protection and control by deploying overcurrent protection relays, transformer and bus differential protection relays, and line differential protection relays, or PLC and RTAC for automatic transfer schemes.
• Design and Develop site wide electrical distribution Sequence of Operation that ensures system reliability and resiliency.
• Coordinate with utility, turbine power plant, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) or a combination of all three.
• Spec, evaluate, and review vendor or manufacturer's submittal and equipment to ensure they conform to the system design requirement.
• Conduct vendor coordination meeting to ensure all systems and all equipment are working well with each other.
• Design and develop mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical interlock systems.
• Work with other internal teams to specify proper relaying with proper instrument transformers to ensure secure and dependable operation.
• Design and develop system wide automation systems using PLC or RTAC style industrial controllers, including but not limited to: System overload prevention, multipurpose busway interlocks, load management systems, generator plant load curtailment systems, Gen plant start and load controls including selective load pickup and load shed schemes, etc.
• Design and develop relay protection and automation logics for SEL, ABB, Siemens or GE relays
• Design and develop system protection and control architecture such as IEC61850, mirrored bit, protection interface, Modbus, DNP etc.
• Provide power system failure analysis, Sequence of Event analysis and/or develop a metering / triggering system to ensure proper event capture for conducting such analysis.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Power Systems

Protection Relays

Automation Control

Project Management

Vendor Coordination

Relay Protection

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SEL relays

Siemens 7SX

ABB REF615

RTAC

Modbus/DNP

Job description

Rosendin Electric is seeking an experienced electrical engineer to lead design and development of power distribution, protection and automation for complex data center and industrial projects. You will work on protection schemes, relay coordination, and PLC/RTAC based controls, collaborating with vendors and internal teams.

The role requires a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of engineering design experience in electrical power systems. Travel up to 50% may be required.