System Protection Engineer

POSITION SUMMARY:

With general supervision, this role involves planning, scheduling, conducting, and coordinating significant engineering projects or multiple complex small projects. The individual often serves as a staff advisor and consultant, performing various duties to support these responsibilities.JOB FUNCTION:

• Provides the diverse and advanced engineering and project management expertise associated with large and high-profile projects and/or some small projects with many complex features
• Leads or conducts performance, cost, and scheduling studies/evaluations that require advanced and innovative techniques and/or the modifications of standard practices and precepts
• Provides the operational areas with highly skilled and diversified expertise
• Communicates engineering ideas, recommendations, and evaluations to diverse internal and external audiences
• Represents the company’s interests in advanced engineering matters
• Identifies and resolves broad technical and/or organizational issues affecting the company goals and objectives
• Provides advanced technical support as a staff advisor or consultant to, and interacts with other associates
• Applies extensive engineering expertise to improve or develop new standards
• Provides advanced and often highly innovative technical direction and/or activity supervision to contractors and company personnel on an as-needed basis
• Functions as a lead for staff engineers, professionals, and technicians and as appropriate, provides training

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a college/university accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) with five to seven years of experience.
• A Master’s degree in engineering is preferred.
• Demonstrated strong leadership skills, self-motivation, and advanced interpersonal skills Ability to read and interpret documents
• Ability to write routine reports, correspondence, speeches, and make presentations
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, employees, and managers of the organization
• Professional Engineers License is preferred.
• Must possess a current, legally valid driver’s license and meet the Company’s driving record requirements.
• In-depth knowledge of personal computers including demonstrated proficiency with electrical engineering design programs
• In-depth knowledge of word processing, database, and spreadsheet software
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out complex instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with complex problems involving several concrete variables in complicated situations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Extensive knowledge and proven ability to apply diverse engineering principles, practices, and regulations and to perform economic and decision analysis studies of complex issues in areas including, but not limited to, generation, transmission, distribution, system planning, financial and regulatory issues, asset utilization, and environmental controls and regulations
• Ability to read, interpret, and apply national, state, and local codes and standards (IEEE, ANSI, NEC, NESC, ACI, AISC, ASME, NACE, etc.)
• Ability to translate electrical theory and physics to utility application for improving system reliability
• Ability to make informed repair decisions following company protocols
• Comfortable working in and around high voltage (up to 345kV) electrical facilities and equipment
• Ability to forecast budgets