Power Plant Maintenance Engineer II - Remote

NovaSource Power Services is a solar operations and maintenance provider serving renewable energy assets, including solar power plants, battery energy storage systems, and substations. The Power Plant Maintenance Engineer II provides electrical and protection engineering support for the global fleet, analyzes equipment and system issues, communicates with field and customer stakeholders, and plans and executes value-added engineering projects.

Responsibilities:

• Respond to daily requests for Maintenance Engineering support for the global fleet of power plants. Examples:
  • Conducting root cause analysis on breaker mis-operations. Example tasks include:
    • Analyzing relay event trip and sequential event recorder (SER) files
    • Studying substation single lines and wiring diagrams
    • Communicating with and providing recommendations to Field Service Technicians
    • Providing recommendations for and reviewing the results of testing of equipment such as bushings, breakers, and more
  • Investigating and troubleshooting system alarms remotely with Field Service Technicians. Examples include:
    • Relay alarms or failures
    • Transformer dissolved gas analysis (DGA) alarms
    • Transformer bushing monitoring system alarms
    • Inverter alarms
    • BESS alarms
  • Reviewing Preventative Maintenance Testing Reports and providing recommendations based on results
• Retrieve and analyze site record drawings which include single line diagrams, cable schedules, and more
• Retrieve and analyze protection relay event trip and sequence of event data for breaker mis-operation analysis
• Retrieve, analyze, and implement protection system settings, updates and logs
• Communicate daily with Field Service Technicians to gather information or provide recommendations
• Communicate with Customers, Owners and Regulatory Agencies as needed
• Communicate daily with other Maintenance Engineering team members and other internal Engineering Teams using email, chat, or phone
• Participate in a weekly team meeting to discuss open topics, review problems and plan value added services
• Quote, plan, and execute value added service projects such as:
  • Sizing and replacing inverters or transformers.
  • Sizing and replacing cables.
  • System modeling
• Build and maintain rapport with Field Service Personnel and Customers / Owners
• Create medium and high voltage engineering drawings for value added service projects
• 15% travel locally or internationally for site visits, team meetings, or training
• Use Microsoft Office 365 suite of tools to manage emails, documents, schedules, and more
• Utilize various OEM specific software, including but not limited to SEL Synchrowave / Quickset (RTAC Quickset), Power Electronics Power Supervisor, SMA Remote Tool, Fluence DAS, Tesla Microscope

Requirements:

• Communicate effectively in both verbal and written format in English
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Accomplished user of Microsoft Office 365
• Ability to work within multiple countries Electrical Standards, ANSI, IEEE, IEC, NETA
• Basic understanding of SCADA/HMI systems
• Basic understanding of power plant controllers, inverters, BESS, capacitor banks and solar tracking systems
• Basic knowledge of approved cyber security practices
• Minimum 5 years of High voltage substation Engineering experience
• Extensive experience with SEL protection relays e.g SEL-351, SEL-735, SEL-487E, SEL-387, SEL-311L
• Extensive experience with substation RTAC equipment e.g SEL-3530
• Experience with GE Relays GE-L90, GE-N60
• Experience with main power transformers and bushings
• Experience with dissolved gas analysis (DGA) and bushing monitoring systems (BMS)
• Minimum 2 years of experience within the Solar and BESS Renewable Energy industry
• Experience with string and central solar inverters
• Experience with Battery Energy Storage Systems
• Experience with BESS Power Conversion Systems
• Experience with Medium Voltage Transformers (MVT)
• 15% travel locally or internationally for site visits, team meetings, or training
• Office Hours: Monday - Friday: 8am - 5pm
• On Call rotation for Emergency Hotline coverage
• Chandler office – Hybrid / Remote Options for qualifying candidates
• Periodic travel to sites, meetings or training as required
• All positions, when in our offices, require interaction with people and technology while either standing or sitting. In order to best service our customers, internal and external, all such personnel must be able to communicate face-to-face and on the phone with or without reasonable accommodation
• Experience with ABB protection relays is a plus