Staff Electrical Engineer - Protection Applications (Southeast Region)

Position Overview

The Staff Electrical Engineer will work on project teams to create world‐class designs for new projects, alterations and redevelopments across a variety of facilities including power, process, corporate, healthcare, pipeline, airports, institutional, industrial, manufacturing, government, and military. The role involves adapting electrical plans according to budget constraints, design factors, or client needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Executes complex assignments using advanced electrical engineering techniques to develop new or improved processes, equipment, and technological methods.
• Coordinate departmental/divisional project studies, reports, or design assignments.
• Perform power system studies and system protection settings coordination on projects (up to 500‐kV voltage level).
• Develop design basis documentation for protective settings and generate native relay configuration files.
• Conduct design reviews and support quality control.
• Assist the project manager in developing scope of work and conceptual designs.
• Train, guide, and mentor less experienced team members.
• Support business development and marketing initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a directly related field along with three (3) years of experience in electrical systems studies in the electric utility or industrial power distribution industry.
• Or a Master’s degree with two (2) years of related experience in lieu of the above requirement.
• Ability to obtain a Professional Engineer licensure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in developing protective relay settings in the Transmission or Distribution industry.
• Experience with system modelling software (ASPEN, CAPE, CYME, ETAP, SKM, etc.).
• Knowledge of protection schemes and philosophies applied at Transmission and Distribution substations.
• Experience in developing native relay setting files using SEL’s AcSELerator and GE’s Enervista software programs.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical single lines, three lines, schematics, and functional diagrams.
• Skilled in performing designing calculations including short circuit calculation, current transformer performance and ratio selection, over-current element coordination, zone-distance element selection and coordination, and relay loadability calculation.
• Ability to perform grounding, arc flash, and other power system studies is a plus.
• Experience providing engineering support for construction and commissioning activities for substations.