Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

Tailor your resume to this Engineering Manager - Protection and Controls role.

Rezi rewrites your resume against Electric Power Engineers's job description. Free.

Resume score gauge reading 58 out of 100

Don't guess if your resume is good enough.

See how it scores against the Engineering Manager - Protection and Controls posting at Electric Power Engineers — free, in seconds.

About the Role

We are innovators by nature, for over 50 years, Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe to focus on complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As an early leader in the renewables space, we continue to see significant opportunities to build a sustainable and secure Grid. Join a team committed to making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can continue to create the “grid of the future”!

Responsibilities

Provide power systems engineering expertise in protection design and coordination analyses on transmission systems.
Design protection systems including overcurrent, distance, differential, communication-aided protection, and wide area protection coordination.
Focus on system protection schemes and studies involving generation interconnection protection and NERC PRC compliance.
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 and 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 coordination studies, and root cause analysis.
Verify NERC PRC compliance 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.
Leverage AI and automation tools responsibly to improve quality, productivity and innovation.
Manage/supervise a team.

Requirements

Licensed Professional Engineer required (Texas, Illinois, or California).
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.
Experience leveraging AI and automation tools responsibly to improve quality, productivity and innovation.
Versatility and ability to adapt to changing priorities.

Skills

System protection design
Coordination analyses
Transmission systems
Overcurrent protection
Distance protection
Differential protection
Communication-aided protection
Wide area protection coordination
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
System modeling
Fault analysis
Short circuit analysis
Equipment duty analysis
Root cause analysis
Process improvement
AI and automation tools
Communication skills
Teamwork skills

Location

US Remote

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years experience in system protection and control

Education Level

Licensed Professional Engineer

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you.
Generous PTO and paid holidays
Work with industry leaders
401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)

About the Company

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer.

Equal Opportunity

The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster
If you are interested in applying for employment with EPE and need special assistance to apply for a posted position, please send an email to: applicationassistance@epeconsulting.com