Senior Protection & Control Engineer, Power Systems

Shermco Industries, Inc.; West Lawn (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shermco Industries, Inc. is seeking an experienced Protection & Control Engineer to support electric utility clients with relay settings, coordination reviews, trip investigations, protection design, and modernization efforts.

This role requires deep practical knowledge of protection schemes and the ability to translate field experience into clear deliverables. You will perform protection analysis, review relay settings, develop protection philosophies, support commissioning, and lead technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Approximately 10+ years of directly relevant utility protection and control experience, or an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated capability.
• Demonstrated experience developing protective relay settings and performing protection coordination and fault analysis.
• Strong working knowledge of utility distribution substations and feeders, protective-device coordination, relay settings, feeder and transformer protection, relay logic, and protection application principles.
• Experience investigating relay events, trips, outages, or misoperations and translating findings into practical recommendations.
• Ability to independently prepare calculations, settings files, technical reports, specifications, and design documentation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to work directly with utility engineering and operations personnel.

Responsibilities

• Perform protection analysis and coordination reviews for utility distribution and substation systems.
• Review relay settings, fault-current impacts, and protection changes associated with breakers, relays, reclosers, fuses, and related equipment.
• Evaluate protective-device coordination, feeder and transformer protection, and the field application of protection schemes.
• Develop or review protection philosophies, application practices, calculations, and settings documentation.
• Support commissioning, field testing, and validation of protection systems.
• Develop protection schemes for utility distribution and substation applications.
• Apply transformer differential, feeder, bus, breaker failure, and related protection functions as project needs require.
• Support relay logic, control narratives, sequence-of-operations documentation, and related design packages where needed.
• Support protection system replacement, upgrade, and modernization programs.
• Investigate unexpected trips to determine why a relay or breaker operated and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Perform root-cause investigations of trips, outages, and suspected protection misoperations.
• Develop clear technical findings and corrective-action recommendations.
• Communicate results through concise reports and customer presentations.
• Lead assigned engineering work with minimal oversight and maintain quality, schedule, and budget awareness.

Skills

Relay settings development

Protection coordination

Fault analysis

Technical report writing

Client communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

SEL relays

SCADA/RTU familiarity

Power-system software

Job description

Shermco Industries, Inc. is seeking an experienced Protection & Control Engineer to support electric utility clients with relay settings, coordination reviews, trip investigations, protection design, and modernization efforts.

This role requires deep practical knowledge of protection schemes and the ability to translate field experience into clear deliverables. You will perform protection analysis, review relay settings, develop protection philosophies, support commissioning, and lead technical