Engineering Manager - Protection and Controls

Electric Power Engineers is an engineering firm focused on power systems and grid modeling challenges. The Protection & Controls Engineering Manager will lead transmission system protection design, coordination studies, compliance verification, and related engineering activities while managing a team and supporting client and business development efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Perform system protection and coordination studies involving transmission generation interconnection protection schemes
• Providing guidance and recommendations for system protection philosophies and standards to clients and stakeholders
• Applying system protection engineering practices and principles in one or more of the following areas: transmission lines and buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, grounding transformers, generators, and communication-assisted protection schemes
• Performing system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit, equipment duty, relay device coordination studies and root cause analysis
• NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027
• Substation and transmission line design experience is of great interest
• Developing protective relay and device settings for transmission and sub-transmission systems ranging from 69 kV - 500 kV
• Review protective relay operations and system outages, identifying system disturbances and providing resolutions to operational control problems
• Assess data and model quality to ensure successful coordination between protective devices and identify necessary corrections or enhancements
• Direct and guide clients to operate equipment or modify settings to improve system reliability
• Model transmission system elements within planning and operational software to identify expected impacts under various scenarios
• Communicate challenges, lessons learned, and critical information to team members to ensure operational success
• Identify process improvement opportunities and develop corresponding modification plans and justification
• Communicate with a variety of work groups to improve transparency and ensure the overall success of the project
• Develop and maintain process documentation, flow charts, whitepapers, working papers, and other materials necessary for the continuity and success of the project
• Develop communication materials and provide status updates to technical leaders, project teams, or affected stakeholder groups
• Lead process improvement efforts identifying opportunities to enhance organizational efficiencies focused on maximizing team bandwidth while ensuring quality and timeliness of client deliverables
• Support business development activities including development of RFP responses & scope of work statements for clients, outlining EPE deliverables and projected completion dates
• Experience leveraging AI and automation tools responsibly to improve quality, productivity and innovation under experience (bring your passion section
• This role will manage/supervise a team

Requirements:

• The successful candidate for this position has a strong background in power systems which includes experience with system protection software and tools, transmission modeling tools, conventional and non-conventional generator protective and ride-through functions, and industry standards and can utilize that background effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Licensed Professional Engineer required
• 8+ years experience in system protection and control required
• Strong technical foundation in transmission power systems protection and planning
• Experience with ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, Powerbase, SEL Quickset, and GE Enervista UR Setup
• Experience working with SEL equipment, software, and/or developing programming files using SEL Quickset
• Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE guidelines for designing and studies of transmission system protection
• Experience leveraging AI and automation tools responsibly to improve quality, productivity and innovation
• Versatility and ability to adapt to changing priorities
• Location: This position is remote US
• Travel: Travel will be needed (20%+)
• Experience with CYME, Synergi, Windmil/LightTable or other distribution power flow software is an add on
• Experience with inverter-based power plants is strongly preferred
• Exposure to transmission protection design guidelines and philosophies is preferred
• Communication and Teamwork skills strongly preferred