Senior Protection & Control Panel Engineer (SCADA/Telecom)

GE Vernova; Utah; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

GE Vernova’s Grid Automation Lead Customer Project Support Engineer will own the design, programming, testing, and commissioning of protection and control panels for grid infrastructure in Utah. You will work on protection, SCADA, telecom, and DCS panels, and collaborate with Operations and Project Management from concept through commissioning.

The role requires hands-on engineering, strong knowledge of power systems and protection schemes, and the ability to deliver large-scale grid

Qualifications

• Bachelor in Electrical Engineering.
• 5+ years panel design experience using AutoCAD/Ebase.
• Strong knowledge of power systems and protection schemes.
• Experience with test procedures for protection panels.
• UR Family or other protection relays programming.
• Design power system control schemes (transfer, auto-restoration).
• Understanding of major protection principles (distance, differential, transformer).

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer specs and design protection/control panels: layout, SLD, schematics, wiring, BOM; using AutoCAD/Ebase/Oracle/SAP.
• Take full technical execution responsibility to assigned projects.
• Perform engineering studies (load calculations, heat rise, etc.).
• Design control logic solutions including transfer, synchronizing, and auto-restoration schemes.
• Fabricate relay setting files with programming of protection/control elements.
• Create test plans/procedures/reports.
• Test customized protection/control solutions in house and at customer sites.
• Provide field support through commissioning of new applications.
• Analyze and troubleshoot field cases involving GE Multilin protection products.
• May travel up to 10% depending on projects.
• Provide training/design support to team members.
• Provide training materials/video for Ebase to the team.

Skills

Electrical design

Panel design

Autocad

Ebase

UR relay

Protection schemes

Power systems

Education

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Autocad

Ebase

Oracle

SAP

Job description

GE Vernova’s Grid Automation Lead Customer Project Support Engineer will own the design, programming, testing, and commissioning of protection and control panels for grid infrastructure in Utah. You will work on protection, SCADA, telecom, and DCS panels, and collaborate with Operations and Project Management from concept through commissioning.

The role requires hands-on engineering, strong knowledge of power systems and protection schemes, and the ability to deliver large-scale grid