Senior Protection and Control Engineer

1 week ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Telex LLC Full time
Job Summary

The Senior Protection and Control Engineer will provide expert system protection and control engineering services and support to Telex LLC. This role will successfully manage assignments in a safe, regulatory compliant, timely, and cost-effective manner. The position will demonstrate robust technical expertise and will be responsible for a range of assignments working independently while providing work direction to staff/contractors.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and finalize reports and work plans, recommend action, and consider short/long-range objectives and economic and budget considerations.
  • Develop and coordinate departmental project work plans and manage through completion, redirecting when necessary.
  • Lead development of work plans and monitor actual progress of applicable portions, taking any corrective action required.
  • Function as a technical representative in customer, vendor, and contractor meetings.
  • Provide work direction to other staff/contractors on projects as assigned.
  • Manage multiple assignments while training, developing, and mentoring less experienced engineers and other staff.
  • Oversee and/or complete preparation of estimates (cost, work order, schedules).
  • Analyze data and make recommendations and/or decisions.
  • Maintain and approve technical records (e.g. drawings, files, databases).
  • Provide engineering assistance for customers and internal staff.
  • Create corporate standards and specifications related to respective expertise.
  • Demonstrate strong technical expertise and awareness of job-related field and continue to remain current in the industry.
  • Perform analysis of system disturbances to determine proper operation of the protection scheme and assist in investigation of root cause.
  • Develop and/or apply new technologies to generation, transmission, and distribution facilities to achieve an optimum level of protection.
  • Provide protective relay scheme insight to help establish the arrangement and location of substation facilities.
  • Provide direction and technical assistance with digital computer programs and perform analysis as needed including power quality, fault, and system coordination studies, loss evaluations, relay software, relay event analysis, protection asset databases, and arc flash.
  • Develop and direct detailed drawings for relaying single lines, secondary protective relay schemes and schematics, low voltage equipment power, and control system connections for generation, transmission, and distribution protection.
  • Design and manage the installation of generation, transmission, distribution and industrial facility replacements and upgrades.
  • Develop cabling requirements for relay cabinets, equipment, and relay panels.
  • Develop building layout drawings for control houses and battery buildings.
  • Develop bidding documents, evaluate and establish lowest bids for industrial, distribution, and transmission substations.
  • Develop protective relay settings as required for new facility (generation, transmission, distribution and industrial) equipment protection and modify existing facility protective relay settings to maintain optimum system protection.
  • Perform SME tasks on assigned NERC and/or CIP Compliance standards.
  • Prepare construction, equipment, material specifications, and work scope.
  • Provide project management for protection and control projects in engineering and construction and/or generation production.
  • Maintain and coordinate contracts with equipment suppliers and monitor progress, expediting as required to meet schedules.
  • Coordinate and oversee substation and industrial control system field testing and modification, phasing tests, and other commissioning and check-out activities for all generation, transmission, distribution and industrial protection schemes, with contractors and other Telex departments, at the customer substation and industrial sites.
  • Develop protection system switching procedures.
  • Lead coordination of contractors or staff on project related work, certification of completed work, and recommendation of final acceptance of the project.
  • Monitor the project during construction start-up and recommend modifications necessary to support project success.
  • Perform project management duties for small and larger projects simultaneously and assist other engineers with their projects.
  • Perform all work in a safe and timely manner.


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