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About the Role

LCRA is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join their Transmission Protection team. This role involves developing protective relay settings, ensuring regulatory compliance, performing technical studies, and providing technical support to field personnel. The engineer will contribute to strengthening LCRA's transmission system and collaborate with other teams to support capital plans and daily operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop new and revised protective relay settings for transmission lines, substation buses, power transformers, autotransformers, capacitor banks, and reactors.
• Perform PRC-027 wide-area coordination studies, coordinating with other TSPs to ensure protective relay settings are coordinated in the transmission system.
• Review short-circuit reports for new generation and large load projects seeking to interconnect to LCRA's transmission system.
• Develop and coordinate transformer protective relay settings with distribution feeder settings.
• Develop protective relay settings for temporary off-normal switching configurations.
• Collaborate with other Engineers to update and improve Transmission Protection standards and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science.
• Driver's license

Skills

• Knowledge of symmetrical components used to analyze unbalanced three-phase power systems
• Experience interpreting electrical design prints (e.g. relay one-line diagrams, DC schematics, etc.)
• Experience with relay coordination software (e.g. ASPEN OneLiner, CAPE, etc.)
• Software programming (e.g. Python, VBA, LiveCode, etc.)
• A passion for solving interesting and complex engineering problems in a collaborative environment, and a desire to learn, grow, and strive for continuous process improvement
• Knowledge of ERCOT protocols and NERC reliability standards is a plus

Experience Level

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a background in power systems

Education Level

• Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science.
• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness
• Time off

About the Company

• LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities.

Equal Opportunity

• LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
• All employment decisions at LCRA are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in accordance with applicable federal and state legal requirements governing nondiscrimination in employment.
• LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities.
• Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can contact LCRA Human Resources (512) 578-4004 or email lcra.benefits@lcra.org.
• Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.