Job Description:
Insight Global is seeking a Senior Protection & Control Engineer for a top power distribution and grid automation client. This candidate will support the design, engineering, testing, and commissioning of protection, control, and automation systems for utility, industrial, and power infrastructure projects.
The ideal candidate will bring hands-on, detailed Protection & Control engineering experience, including developing AC/DC schematics, wiring and logic diagrams, relay protection and automation designs, relay settings, and engineering packages. This role requires someone who can work beyond primary/physical substation design and take ownership of the secondary protection and control systems through FAT/SAT, troubleshooting, commissioning, and startup.
Must-Haves:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of Protection & Control Engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with utility, substation, transmission, and/or distribution projects
- Detailed protection, control, and automation panel engineering experience, not solely physical/primary substation design
- Hands-on protective relay experience with SEL, Siemens SIPROTEC, GE Multilin, ABB Relion, or similar
- Ability to develop and review AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and logic diagrams
- Experience with relay protection/automation design and relay settings
- Experience with FAT, SAT, commissioning, and/or startup
- Experience with IEC 61850, DNP3, and/or Modbus
- Ability to read and develop/review one-line and three-line diagrams
- Proficiency with AutoCAD Electrical, Engineering Base, EPLAN, or similar
- Knowledge of ANSI/IEEE protection standards
Plusses:
- Utility substation design experience
- Transmission/distribution protection scheme experience, including feeder, transformer, bus, line differential, and/or distance protection
- Siemens SIPROTEC or SEL relay programming experience
- SCADA and substation automation experience
- UL 508A, IEC, and/or NERC compliance knowledge
- Power generation or renewable-energy project experience
- Leadership or mentoring experience
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.