Engineer III or Senior Engineer: Distributed Energy Resource Protection and Control Standards – Distribution (PGO DPAC ES)

More than a career - a chance to make a difference in people's lives.

Responsibilities:

• Development of standards, application guides, and position statements related to system protection & control for DER Integration related to point of common coupling reclosers, grounding banks, switchgear, and generation step up transformation within DE owned Controlled DER sites.
• Development of protection & control standard settings, logic, and control templates
• Support the development of control and automation standards related to this equipment
• 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
• Collaboration with DPAC ES team members as well as internal customers and stakeholders including Equipment and Construction Standards, DPAC, DCC, and PGO Asset Management
• Mentorship and peer leadership with fellow engineers

Required/Basic Qualifications - Engineer III

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering from an ABET accredited program
• 4 years of minimum required related experience
• A Master's degree in Engineering will be considered in lieu of the B.S. Engineering degree.

Required/Basic Qualifications - 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 or 5 years of engineering experience with state registration as a Professional Engineer.

Desired Qualifications

• System protection and coordination experience with medium voltage systems (4kV-36kV class)
• Familiarity with IEEE 1547-2018 and IEEE 2030 standards
• Familiarity/experience with IEC 61850 protocol including programming and testing advanced protection and automation systems with peer to peer communications
• Familiarity with SCADA communication and control concepts including DNP3
• Experience integrating and testing protection and control systems.
• Familiarity/experience with SEL protection and automation controls/relays and software
• Familiarity/experience with OMICRON test equipment and software
• 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
• Experience with Integration of power plant, distributed resources, or major industrial/commercial/government customer load facilities
• Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in engineering theories and principles
• Proficient in principles of project management
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE)
• Experience in the utility industry

Working Conditions

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

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