Engineer

Job Title: Engineer

Employment Type: Contract

Work Hours: 40+hrs./week

Work site: 100% Onsite

Location: 4 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003

Salary : $65-$75/hr

Contract Length: 3 years

Job Description:

The qualified candidate will play a pivotal role in a major project involving the construction of a new substation. They will be fully responsible for overseeing relay protection associated with the new station buildout.

Department: Relay Protection, Metering and Security Engineering

Responsibilities:

Perform detailed fault studies in CAPE and use results to perform settings calculations.

Perform associated coordination studies, loadability studies, etc. as necessary.

Develop setting files for protective relays including all associated documentation.

Review, mark up, provide guidance to design engineering regarding project drawings.

Provide oversight to protection and controls integration vendor including reviewing deliverables for accuracy.

Assist in off-site and on-site acceptance testing of the system.

Check installation design for regulatory compliance and present to regulators as needed.

Additional tasks as necessary to develop the protection system for the new substation.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

At least 4 years of experience performing fault studies and setting protective relays at the transmission level.

Experience with CAPE software for fault studies and settings calculations.

Strong understanding of coordination studies, loadability studies, and protective relay settings.

Experience with IEC61850 standards.

Ability to review and provide guidance on project drawings.