Lead Engineer - Protection & Control

Location: Orange, CT

Reports to: Supervisor - Protection & Control - Philosophy and Standards

Work Type: Office

The base salary for this position is dependent upon experience and location ranging from $ 130,000-160,400

What We Offer:
Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
Generous performance‑based bonuses
12% 401(k) match
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Tuition reimbursement
Professional development and clear career advancement pathways

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Summary

The Philosophy and Standards group is a support function for the Protection and Control (P&C) Department. The Philosophy and Standards group is responsible for researching industry best practices to create P&C standards. This group also develops new engineering processes and tools. System scope includes transmission, substation, and distribution. Service companies include Central Maine Power, New York State Electric & Gas, Rochester Gas & Electric, and United Illuminating.

Responsibilities

• General responsibilities include assisting in the development of P&C engineering standards, relay setting file templates, record keeping processes, and engineering tools. The engineer will also participate in the evaluation of new vendors and technologies.
• The position requires conducting engineering analysis, researching white papers and manuals, organizing and facilitating meeting, presenting to technical and non-technical audiences, and documenting assignments. This position requires collaboration with other P&C engineers, other departments, contractors, and vendors.
• As a lead engineer, this position grants autonomy to propose solutions to open-ended challenges but requires the engineer to work mostly autonomously. The lead engineer is expected to provide informal mentorship to junior engineers.
• Active projects include engineering a pilot IEC 61850 process bus substation using GOOSE and SV, evaluating Virtualized Protection Relays (VPR) and Centralized Substation Protection (CSP), evaluating new relay vendors, updating engineering standards, and writing conference papers.

Education and Experience

• Minimum 7 years of Power System Electrical Engineering experience of which minimum 4 years of Protection & Control, Substation Automation, or Substation Testing and Commissioning experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Due to the open-ended nature of the department’s responsibilities, a strong understanding of power system fundamentals is required. This includes sequential components, per unit, harmonics, Internal Use transformers, and fault analysis. An understanding of traditional generation and inverter-based generation is preferred.
• Experience or knowledge in the following areas is preferred: IEC 61850 (GOOSE Data Models, Sampled Values, MMS), networking, real time simulators, virtualized protection relays, and centralized substation protection.

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