P&C Engineer II - LanceSoft Inc
White Plains, NY 10601
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Job Details:
Job Title: P&C Engineer II
Location: White Plains, NY
Duration: Permanent/Full - Time
Salary range: $110,000- $152,000/Yearly
Summary:
Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Physical Requirements:
Approximately 25% travel primarily within NY State.
Job Title: P&C Engineer II
Location: White Plains, NY
Duration: Permanent/Full - Time
Salary range: $110,000- $152,000/Yearly
Summary:
- Develop design solutions for company’s protection and control and associated communication systems, perform system disturbance analysis and recommend protective relaying system modifications and/or additions.
- Assures adherence to applicable North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) standards to maintain and operate company assets. #LI-AH1
Responsibilities:
- Provide lead engineer function in support of a wide range of design modification projects, equipment applications and failure research, engineering studies, and operations and maintenance activities.
- Perform site visits to complete field inspections, condition assessments, and equipment evaluations and develop technical recommendations with moderate complexity.
- Perform occasional emergency response, including outside of normal business hours.
- Independently coordinate cross disciplinary activities for the successful development and execution of projects.
- Select and apply codes, standards, and procedures to work tasks appropriately.
- Perform inspections and evaluations to ensure engineering requirements and company specifications are satisfied.
- Provide technical leadership in state-of-the-art engineering and analytical techniques.
- Review designs, calculations, specifications, and reports produced by other internal engineers and external consultants.
- Provide direction and review for the electrical design and drafting personnel in the development of project drawings.
- Perform engineering design for the protection and control and associated communication systems for the company system (through both complete in-house designs and submittal of protection criteria).
- Perform special short circuit studies and other complex calculations as required to establish relay settings utilizing sophisticated software analysis programs.
- Prepare specifications for purchasing protection and communication equipment and instrument transformer devices.
- Evaluate bid proposals and provide technical recommendations for awards of bids.
- Perform system disturbance analysis and recommend protective relaying system modification and/or additions, if required.
- Review existing company protective relay settings to ensure proper relay coordination margin and recommend relay setting changes if required.
- Interface with manufacturers, consultants, professional organizations, regulatory and standardizing bodies to maintain familiarity with and stay conversant with the requirements of power system protection and control.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Proficient in the design, operation, and maintenance of Protection and Control systems specific to the electric utility industry.
- Working knowledge of protective relaying systems and their various components.
- Ability to utilize communication systems including power line carrier, leased telephone circuits, microwave links and fiber optic technology to develop protective relaying systems.
- Ability to apply diverse technical principles and practices, with the understanding of the company’s policies, operations, and objectives, to engineering deliverables.
- Working knowledge of applicable codes, standards, regulations.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Collaborative and team-oriented with ability to build relationships with vendors and stakeholders.
- Ability to coordinate the technical and commercial aspects of projects.
- Ability to perform engineering calculations, complete specifications, scopes of work, reports, and interdisciplinary design packages.
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Office applications.
- Working experience with engineering software such as ASPEN and relay manufacturing software preferred.
- Ability to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects.
- Ability to organize state-of-the-art microprocessor-based digital transient recorders and integrated sequence-of-event recorders in complex monitoring and logging systems to provide the necessary information for system performance analysis.
- Ability to develop complex engineering specifications and perform more intricate studies.
- Education, Experience and Certifications
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent, from an accredited college or university.
- Minimum of six (6) years of related work experience preferred.
- Experience in Protective Relaying applied to Electrical Power Systems required.
- New York State Engineer in Training certification preferred.
Physical Requirements:
Approximately 25% travel primarily within NY State.
Source : LanceSoft Inc
