The Role
The Protection and Control Engineer manages the production of P&C packages, overseeing designers and drafters. Responsibilities include identifying protection schemes for substations, preparing work scopes, ordering materials, creating drawing packages, performing load calculations, and providing field support for substation projects, along with mentoring new engineers.
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Role: Protection and Control Engineer
Location: San Ramon, CA (Onsite)
Job Summary:
Our P&C Engineers independently produce and understand the process to complete P&C packages, including managing designers and drafters for the package.
Who You Are:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university
- Professional Engineer (PE) License
- 4+ years of experience engineering/designing electrical systems within the Utilities or Energy industry
- Skilled in AutoCAD (MicroStation is a plus)
- Experience with ETAP, WinIGS, IEEE 88/998
- Experience using Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Bentley MicroStation and/or Bentley Substation software to develop 2D drawings or 3D models are a plus.
- PE Certification is a plus
- Knowledge and understanding of one or more of the following skillsets: SCADA, automation, relay settings, RTU configuration, and Protection & Controls engineering terms and concepts are a plus.
- Experience working with the electric utility industry or petro-chemical industry.
- BSEE Degree with 6+ years of experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Identify proper protection and control schemes for transmission and distribution substations.
- Select proper protection devices for equipment within a substation.
- Prepare scopes of work and estimates for evaluating and designing substations.
- Identify proper equipment sizing and order material.
- Ensure the maintenance and adherence of customer standards as it pertains to relay protection.
- Create drawing packages for substation relay protection that include wiring diagrams, schematics, protection panels, one-line, and three-line diagrams.
- Interface with clients and vendors.
- Perform load calculations for load panels, battery systems, voltage drop, and other various substation components.
- Perform substation field support and field pre-inspection for “turn-key” substation projects consisting of protection panels, circuit switchers, circuit breakers, transformers, control house, and supporting equipment.
- Mentor new engineers.
Top Skills
Autocad
Etap
Ieee
Microstation
Winigs
The Company
What We Do
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