Protection Engineer Technical Leader
Company: Electric Power Research Institute
Location: Clinton
Posted on: October 11, 2021
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Job Description:
The role will involve working with transmission grid companies
in North America and around the world to solve modern and exciting
grid protection challenges. While experience with setting relays
and performing coordination studies is essential, it is important
that the candidate be interested in and capable of analyzing larger
scale problems. These may include supporting investigations into
large-scale blackouts, analyzing protection relay behavior during
power swings and other transient disturbances, coordination of and
interaction between generator and grid protection devices, and the
impacts of inverters and decreasing inertia on protection
performance. Through project experience and training the role will
enable the candidate to build and develop their expertise in
grid protection, protection relays and their applications,
settings, and testing. The successful candidate will join a
growing team performing protection R&D who are focused on
tackling major protection challenges and delivering practical
solutions from concept all the way through to deployment in the
field. • Leads research efforts in particular scientific disciplines or
technologies and participates the development and application of
products and services in those areas through contractors and
departmental or cross-functional teams. Applies technical
expertise, and has full knowledge of other related
disciplines. Develops technical solutions to complex problems
which require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
Organizes the external and interdepartmental activities ensuring
completion of the project/product on schedule and within
budget. May conduct research directly in complex, high impact
technical or scientific fields. • Ability to apply technical knowledge to industry issues and
gain input on needs from members/stakeholders and identify current
and emerging technical issues. • Develops research or services opportunities of value to EPRI
members that fit EPRI’s mission and capabilities. This will
include solving customer problems, producing insights and
information vital to the members, and delivering information in a
manner that members and customers can and will
apply. • May provide oversight of a project team to assure technical
and financial milestones are met. • Provides assistance to the EPRI sales staff in Member Services
and EPRI International. • Broaden technical expertise and interface with national and
international technical networks with manufacturers, consultants,
and academia and research organizations. • Communicates strategies and results, written and verbal, to
program members, potential members and external stakeholders
through guidelines, reports, meetings, webcasts, workshops and
conferences. • Manages small or medium (less complex) projects including
budgets and resources Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field or equivalent experience
required. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: • 5 -7 or more years of research and development project and
promotional experience, including development of advanced concepts
for internal research or equivalent experience. • Shows technical expertise and assumes responsibility for
highly specialized technical objectives using creative imaginative
solutions. • Experience in performing and/or managing research
activities. • Incumbents must be able to exercise judgment, diligence, and
attention to detail and demonstrate an aptitude for carrying out
responsible technical assignments. • Good verbal and written communication skills. • Manages projects and may work in conjunction with a technical
specialist. • Developing technical depth in 1-2 areas • Understand how work fits across EPRI programs • Typically individual contributor, may begin handling
supervisory activities for lower level positions. Required Experience * Focused and inquisitive attitude towards learning about and
solving power system protection challenges * Ability to investigate unusual and challenging power system
disturbances, replicate in simulation, and develop novel, practical
solutions which can be validated and deployed in the field * Understanding of power system faults and sequence
components * Understanding of protection functions and programmable logic
used in modern numerical Schweitzer, GE, ABB, Siemens relays * Experience performing power system disturbance
investigations * Experience running short circuit simulations and protection
coordination studies in tools such as Oneliner, PSS-CAPE, or
Powerfactory * Experience with electromagnetic transient modeling and studies
in PSCAD, EMTP-RV, ATP-EMTP, or Powerfactory Beneficial Experience * Experience working in transmission grid operations or
planning. * Ability to pick up new protection algorithms, applications and
philosophies * Participation in IEEE PSRC, CIGRE B5 or similar industry
P&C Working Groups * Understanding of North American and International utility
protection practices * Knowledge of wind, solar PV, battery energy storage or
VSC-HVDC inverter control design and short circuit
characteristics * Experience with transient stability modeling and studies in
PSS/E, PSLF, Powerfactory, TSAT, or PowerWorld * Experience with programming languages and environments such as
Python, CUPL, Powerscript, Matlab, MathCADJob Title:
Protection Engineer Technical Leader
Location:
Charlotte, NC, Knoxville, TN, Palo Alto, CA, Washington, D.C.
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Keywords: Electric Power Research Institute, Knoxville , Protection Engineer Technical Leader, Other , Clinton, Tennessee
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