Protection Engineer

ENTRUST Solutions Group is seeking an experienced Protection Engineer who excels in solving complex system challenges and ensuring the reliable performance of the power grid. The role involves analyzing relay settings, conducting coordination studies, and implementing protection strategies in compliance with NERC PRC standards.

Responsibilities:

• Review/analyze existing protective relay settings per NERC PRC standards to ensure proper relay coordination margin and recommending relay setting changes if required
• Document relay coordination in reports per NERC PRC standards
• Reviewing existing protective relay settings per NERC PRC standards to ensure proper relay coordination margin and recommending relay setting changes if required
• Model primary systems and secondary systems in power system simulation software platforms such as ASPEN, PSS/E, PSLF software
• Perform system disturbance analysis and recommending protective relaying system modifications and/or additions, if appropriate
• Reviewing and documenting existing protective relaying systems and recommending protection system improvements
• Interface with manufacturers, professional organizations, regulatory and standardizing bodies (i.e.: NPCC, IEEE, etc.) in order to maintain familiarity with and stay conversant with the requirements in the very broad area of power system protection and control
• Utilize state-of-the-art microprocessor-based digital transient recorders and integrated sequence-of-event recorders in complex monitoring and logging systems to provide the necessary information for system performance analysis
• Perform special short circuit studies and other complex calculations as required to establish relay settings utilizing sophisticated software analysis programs

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years' experience relative to P&C engineering for generation and/or transmission systems
• Expertise in the engineering of protective relay and control systems, the calculation of relay settings, the creation of relay control logic, and the analysis of relay operations for transmission / distribution substations
• Knowledge of relay communications theory, testing practices and the maintenance of relay communications network infrastructure