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About the Role
We are designing the grid of the future! The Principal Engineer will provide power systems engineering expertise in protection design and coordination analyses on the transmission systems. This role involves designing protection systems, focusing on system protection schemes and studies, and ensuring NERC PRC compliance for the bulk electric system. The successful candidate has a strong background in power systems, including experience with system protection software, transmission modeling tools, generator protective functions, and industry standards, and can utilize this background effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Perform system protection and coordination studies involving transmission generation interconnection protection schemes
- Provide guidance and recommendations for system protection philosophies and standards to clients and stakeholders
- Apply system protection engineering practices and principles in areas such as transmission lines, buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, grounding transformers, generators, and communication-assisted protection schemes
- Perform system modeling and fault analysis for short circuit, equipment duty, relay device coordination studies and root cause analysis
- Conduct NERC PRC compliance verification including PRC-005, PRC-019, PRC-023, PRC-024, PRC-025, PRC-026 and PRC-027
- Develop 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
- Manage/supervise a team
Requirements
- 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
Skills
- Power systems engineering expertise
- Protection design
- Coordination analyses
- Transmission systems
- System protection schemes
- Generation interconnection protection
- NERC PRC compliance
- System protection software and tools
- Transmission modeling tools
- Conventional and non-conventional generator protective and ride-through functions
- Industry standards
- Substation design
- Transmission line design
- Protective relay settings
- Device settings
- Root cause analysis
- Communication skills
- Teamwork skills
- CYME
- Synergi
- Windmil/LightTable
- Distribution power flow software
- Inverter-based power plants
- Transmission protection design guidelines
- Transmission protection philosophies
Location
- Remote US
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal Engineer
- 8+ years experience
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you
- Generous PTO and paid holidays
- MyShare Employee Ownership Program
- Work with industry leaders
- 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
About the Company
- EPE has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges.
- Leaders in the renewables space, focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.
- Making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live.
- Transforming the future of energy.
Equal Opportunity
- EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer.