Protection and Control Engineer

3 days ago

Austin, Texas, United States Telex LLC Full time
Job Description

Job Summary: The Electrical Engineer II will provide system protection and control engineering services and support under limited supervision. The position will successfully manage assignments in a safe, regulatory compliant, timely, and cost-effective manner. The position will demonstrate proficiency of technical expertise while developing skills and familiarity in related technical areas.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop reports and work plans and recommend action based on short/long-range objectives and economic/budget considerations.
  • Develop and coordinate individual project work plans and manage through completion taking needed corrective action.
  • Provide work direction to other staff/contractors on projects as assigned.
  • Manage multiple assignments while training and developing less experienced engineers and other staff.
  • Complete preparation of estimates (cost, work order, schedules).
  • Analyze data and make recommendations and/or decisions.
  • Maintain technical records (e.g. drawings, files, databases).
  • Collaborate with other team members and supervisors in carrying out assignments.
  • Provide engineering assistance for customers and internal staff.
  • Assist with the creation of corporate standards and specifications related to respective expertise.
  • Demonstrate working knowledge of sound engineering practices and standards.
  • Investigate all technical aspects of protective relaying and controls to apply new ideas or technology that would improve procedures and overall results.
  • Investigate protective relaying and control issues/events to assist in root cause analysis.
  • Utilize digital computer programs as needed to assist with power quality, fault, and system coordination studies, loss evaluations, relay software, relay event analysis, protection asset databases, and arc flash.
  • Assist in the development of detailed drawings for secondary protective relay schemes, low voltage equipment power, and control system connections for generation, transmission, and distribution protection.
  • Develop cabling requirement for relay cabinets, equipment, and relay panels.
  • Prepare building layout drawings for control houses and battery buildings.
  • Create customer system protection equipment bidding documents 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 with assistance from more experienced personnel.
  • Prepare construction, equipment, material specifications, and work scope.
  • Evaluate customer bids and recommend suppliers/contractors for system protection.
  • 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.
  • Assist in the development of protection system switching procedures.
  • Coordinate 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 of continually increasing scope 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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