Senior Protection & Control Engineer – Substations

Gevernova; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Job summary

GE Vernova seeks a Lead Protection & Control Engineer in the United States to define, design, and coordinate protection and control for HV/EHV projects, including data centers and BESS. Lead teams, ensure safe, cost-effective, and compliant integration with SCADA, cyber security, and telecom needs.

You will coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines, review studies, train end-users, and participate in testing and commissioning. A PE/EIT preference and travel up to 20% are valued assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or similar degree from an accredited university.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in engineering.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in protection and controls engineering for substations or power generation.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 20% of the time, including international, for meetings and on-site commissioning tests for customer installations.

Responsibilities

• Design protection schemes for all kinds of T&D substations, Data Centers, Industrial, BESS applications including one-lines, three-lines, AC/DC schematics, and relay settings.
• Lead a local or remote design team to develop panel and interconnect wiring, panel layouts and elevations.
• Evaluate interoperability, control features, and communication/protocol aspects of IEDs serving as protection relays for integrated solutions with SCADA, Cyber Security and Telecom.
• Be familiar with IEC 61850 process and system bus architecture and its implementation for substations.
• Coordinate with SCADA engineers, substation engineers, and control design staff for full system integration of protection, control and monitoring.
• Interface with Lead engineers, Project Engineers, Electrical Designers, Draftsmen, Project managers, Sourcing, and support organizations.
• Review load flow studies, fault studies, relay setting coordination, and transient studies.
• Train end-users on theory, operation and maintenance of integrated protection and control systems.
• Lead or support factory acceptance testing and site testing/commissioning.
• Develop outage, cut-over and testing procedures.
• Define processes, perform RCA, implement corrective actions, and support ISO9002 initiatives.

Skills

Protection engineering

Controls engineering

Substation design

Team leadership

IEC 61850

Relay coordination

Power systems

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

GE Vernova seeks a Lead Protection & Control Engineer in the United States to define, design, and coordinate protection and control for HV/EHV projects, including data centers and BESS. Lead teams, ensure safe, cost-effective, and compliant integration with SCADA, cyber security, and telecom needs.

You will coordinate with multiple engineering disciplines, review studies, train end-users, and participate in testing and commissioning. A PE/EIT preference and travel up to 20% are valued assets.