Senior Engineer Or Lead Engineer - Distribution System Protection & Control Standards

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Relocation assistance provided!

This incumbent will act as an System Protection and Control Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the development of protection and control standards and templates for relays, reclosers, switchgear, and other protection and control concepts as a member of the Customer Delivery (CD) System Protection and Control peer team within the CD Operational and Automation Standards team. The position will be focused on development and management of standards for operational technology protective relays, controls, and automation devices. The Senior Engineer manages work in engineering areas of specialization, with minimal supervision. The Senior Engineer is expected to develop advanced skills and to have the ability to work independently, with guidance limited to unusual or complex projects or issues. Employees in the Senior Engineer position are fully competent in the use of concepts and procedures. The Senior Engineer identifies problems, develops solutions and takes action to resolve.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:

• Manage CDOAS Midwest protection and control lab

• Development of protection & control standard settings, logic, and control templates

• Development of related application guidance documents for standards application

• SME input into training and work method related documentation and training artifacts

• Hands on testing within relay lab, field lab, factory and field acceptance testing of new and existing concepts, working with switchgear, relays, and control components including voltage and current secondary injection test sets

• Integration of various sensing, control, communications, and protection capabilities into technical standard solution systems

• Close working cooperation with peer team lead for CD System Protection Team and team members within CD OAS, peers in the Equipment and Construction Standards team, and stakeholders within CD Asset Management

• Mentorship and peer leadership with fellow engineers

• Provides engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis and resolution of problems of increasing scope and complexity

• Contributes to team decision-making in the accomplishment of business goals and objectives through effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling and monitoring of work activities

• Deals with changing priorities and differing situations and makes decision that may affect the work of the team

• Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches related to well-defined problems and analysis of increasing scope and complexity

• Conducts engineering and related studies

• Completes routine engineering projects with minimal oversight with increasing ability to independently manage project schedules and interfaces; increasingly competent to design, operate and maintain systems with moderate impact on existing systems

• Possesses and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures; proficient in technical and analytical competencies

• Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities

• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills including development of training guides and protection standards

• Maintains accurate records and files

• Supports the company's goals and represents the company positively and professionally

Basic/Required Qualifications

Note: This posting is for one position. Dependent on relevant experience, the level to which a candidate is aligned is outlined below.

Senior Engineer

• Graduation from a four-year college or university with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program or state registration as a Professional Engineer. A Master's degree in engineering will be considered in lieu of the B. S. engineering degree.

• Minimum of 6 years of engineering experience

Lead Engineer

• Graduation from a four-year college or university with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program or state registration as a Professional Engineer. A Master's degree in engineering will be considered in lieu of the B. S. engineering degree.

• Minimum of 8 years of engineering experience

• Registration as a Professional Engineer

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Registration as a Professional Engineer

• Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Manage CDOAS Midwest protection and control lab

• Development of protection & control standard settings, logic, control templates and associated engineering documents of record

• Development of related application guidance documents for standards application

• SME input into training and work method related documentation and training artifacts

• Hands on testing within relay lab, field lab, factory and field acceptance testing of new and existing concepts, working with switchgear, relays, and control components

• Integration of various sensing, control, communications, and protection capabilities into technical standard solution systems

• Close working cooperation with peer team lead for CD System Protection Team and team members within CD OAS, peers in the Equipment and Construction Standards team, and stakeholders within CD Asset Management

• Mentorship and peer leadership with fellow engineers

• Provides engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis and resolution of problems of increasing scope and complexity

• Contributes to team decision-making in the accomplishment of business goals and objectives through effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling and monitoring of work activities

• Deals with changing priorities and differing situations and makes decision that may affect the work of the team

• Prepares thorough and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations and sketches related to well-defined problems and analysis of increasing scope and complexity

• Conducts engineering and related studies

• Completes routine engineering projects with minimal oversight with increasing ability to independently manage project schedules and interfaces; increasingly competent to design, operate and maintain systems with moderate impact on existing systems

• Possesses and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures; proficient in technical and analytical competencies

• Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities

• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication skills

• Maintains accurate records and files

• Supports the company's goals and represents the company positively and professionally

• Knowledge and ability to design, create standards, and evaluate system protection and control for medium voltage systems (4kV-36kV class)

• Programming and testing advanced protection and automation systems with peer to peer communications

• Experience performing system protection and coordination studies

• Familiarity/experience with advanced protocols, IEC 61850 GOOSE, DNP3.0, including programming and testing advanced protection and automation systems with peer to peer communications

• Familiarity with communication control concepts, such as SCADA

• Experience integrating and testing protection and control systems

• Familiarity/experience with SEL protection automation controls/relays (SEL-651R, SEL-487, SEL-451, SEL 751) and associated configuration software

• Familiarity/experience with OMICRON test equipment and associated Test Universe software

• Familiarity with SEL Quickset software suites

• Experience developing/programming relay and control design templates, including development of system protection relay settings and logic

• Experience creating standards, standard settings templates, and application guides

• Experience performing factory acceptance and field acceptance testing of systems

• Familiarity with related industry standards, such as ANSI (Associated Electric Systems Interface), IEEEE 519 Harmonics; IEC 61850 Communication networks and systems for power utility automation

• Transmission Protection and Control Experience

• Distribution Protection Automation Control Experience

• Distribution field engineering experience

• Experience with Integration of power plant, distributed resources, or major industrial/commercial/government customer load facilities

• Increasingly proficient in principles of project management.

• Experience in the utility industry - industry standards development

• Demonstrated advancing application of engineering theories and principles

• Increasingly proficient in practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, preparing and presenting recommendations

• Good written and oral communication skills

Working Conditions

• Office, Lab, Field

• Hybrid Mobility Classification - Work will be performed from both remote and onsite locations after the onboarding period. However, hybrid employees should live within a reasonable daily commute to a Duke Energy facility.

Specific Requirements

• Valid driver's license

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Travel Requirements

5-15%

Relocation Assistance Provided (as applicable)

Yes

Represented/Union Position

No

Visa Sponsored Position

No

Posting Expiration Date

Monday, May 20, 2024

All job postings expire at 12:01 AM on the posting expiration date.

Please note that in order to be considered for this position, you must possess all of the basic/required qualifications.

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