Job Title: Lead Engineer- Protection and Control
Location: Orange CT, Rochester NY, Augusta ME, Binghamton NY
Salary Range $139,431 -$153,374
Work Type: Office
The Philosophy and Standards group is a support function for the Protection and Control (P&C) Department. The Philosophy and Standards group is responsible for researching industry best practices to create P&C standards. This group also develops new engineering processes and tools. System scope includes transmission, substation, and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, and United Illuminating.
General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, record keeping processes, and engineering tools. The engineer will also participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
The position requires conducting engineering analysis, researching white papers and manuals, organizing and facilitating meeting, presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, and documenting assignments. This position requires collaboration with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
As a lead engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously. The lead engineer is expected to provide informal mentorship to junior engineers.
Active projects include engineering a pilot IEC 61850 process bus substation, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays (VPR) and Centralized Substation Protection (CSP), evaluating new relay vendors, updating engineering standards, and writing conference papers.
Education & Experience Required:
Minimum 7 years of Power System Electrical Engineering experience of which minimum 2 years of Protection & Control experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
Due to the open-ended nature of the department’s responsibilities, a strong understanding of power system fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components, per unit, harmonics, transformers, and fault analysis. An understanding of traditional generation and inverter-based generation is preferred.
Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS), networking, real time simulators, virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.
All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a medical Fit for Duty exam, background check, references, drug screen, verification of legal right to work in the U.S., and in some cases, a credit check. A credit check will be administered when a prospective employee will be working in Finance, Accounting, Treasury or where duties may involve handling of funds, accounts or cash. A Motor Vehicle (MVR) check will be administered when a prospective employee will be regularly using a company vehicle. Avangrid Renewables is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as an individual with a disability, or any other status or class protected by federal or state law.
Competencies
· Be a role model
· Be agile
· Collaborate and Share
· Develop Self & Others
· Empower to grow
· Focus to achieve results
· Technical Skills