Protection & Controls Engineer

K&A Power Group is a privately held company specializing in consulting, engineering, and design for power utility and industrial clients. They are seeking a highly motivated Protection & Controls Engineer to work on impactful projects in the energy and utility sectors, focusing on protection design and automation for capital projects.

Responsibilities

Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically, the goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes

Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Avangrid TM standards

Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects

Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)

Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings

Review/provide input to Customer’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects

Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items

Provide feedback to Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices

Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer

Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects

Review/design SCADA point indexes

Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects

Review/design Protection settings and settings basis

Review/design IED Data Maps

Review/create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.)

Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists

Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation

Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items

Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)

Preferred

PE requested

PE License

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account

401K (Traditional and Roth with Company Match)

Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO

Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance

Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, and Life Insurance

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Relocation Assistance

Company

Power engineering and EPC services for utilities and energy infrastructure

Syracuse, New York, USA

https://www.kapower.us/

Founded in 2016

501-1000 employees

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background and knowledge of all utilities engineering disciplines

7 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience

Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Proven experience in Substation Design should include general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, Equipment cable trays, cable design, conduit fill calcs, rigid bus calcs

Professional level skills in MicroStation, AutoCAD

PE requested

Required skills

Relay protection settings engineering, Substation design, MicroStation, AutoCAD, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Protection scheme design, SCADA design, IED data mapping, HMI screen design, Electrical engineering, Professional Engineer (PE) license

Preferred skills

PE requested

Experience

7+ years