Senior Electrical Engineer

Cng Expert for Power Generating Facilities

Are you an experienced Engineer ready to take on a dynamic role in the world of power generation? We're seeking an individual with 5-10 years of power generation or manufacturing experience, particularly in heavy electrical equipment and controls. In this position, you'll play a vital role in providing technical support for electrical matters, ensuring NERC compliance, and assisting with regional ISO (PJM, NEISO, and NYISO) technical requests. Your expertise will extend to supporting solar and battery energy storage development projects, making you an essential part of our team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Offer expert insights into High Voltage Electrical equipment, encompassing transformers, switchgear, controls, relays, and transmission equipment.
2. Provide engineering support to address NEISO, NYISO, and PJM requests for technical information.
3. Oversee NERC compliance for all facilities and manage the O&M service provider responsible for daily NERC compliance.
4. Support Solar and Battery Energy Storage Development initiatives, especially regarding electrical interconnections.
5. Prepare project analyses, budgets, schedules, and plans.
6. Develop equipment and construction specifications.
7. Evaluate bids and make recommendations for equipment and/or constructor selection.
8. Collaborate with site colleagues to investigate and conduct root cause analyses of underperforming plant areas or systems, identifying solutions for mitigation or elimination.
9. Assist in day-to-day operational activities, outage work, new projects, and programs as needed.
10. Maintain awareness of state and federal safety regulations, regulatory compliance requirements, and construction codes.
11. Provide support for construction and equipment testing and commissioning.
12. Coordinate and offer technical assistance for SCADA, substation/plant physical, and control projects, ensuring comprehensive system integration of protection, control, and monitoring systems.
13. Occasional travel to various sites may be required (~5%).

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 5-10 years of power generation experience (or manufacturing with a focus on heavy electrical equipment).
• Familiarity with typical failure modes of power plant materials, systems, and components, as well as non-destructive testing methods used on generators, transformers, cables, insulation systems, and major plant items.
• Proficiency in understanding utility grid systems, including power generation, transmission, and distribution.
• Knowledge of protection principles and practices for transmission lines, distribution feeders, and major plant and substation equipment.
• Ability to interpret relaying one-lines and control schematics.
• Experience with electrical, protection, and control design schematics for plants and substations, SCADA systems, station communications, and station automation design.
• Familiarity with relevant codes and standards such as NEC, NESC, IEEE, NEMA, and ANSI.
• Medium and high voltage experience with transformers, switchgear, breakers, power cables, generators, motors, MCCs, power panels, buss-work, or electric transmission is essential.
• Design and project experience involving overhead and underground medium and high voltage distribution/transmission cables, re-conductoring, and asset replacement transmission projects in urban environments is desirable.
• A team player who excels in a collaborative environment.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Exceptional organizational skills.
• Proficient computer and internet competency, including Windows-based software programs.
• An engineering degree is preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with regional RTOs (NYISO, PJM, NEISO) is a plus but not mandatory.
• Experience in electrical system modeling, relay coordination, short-circuit studies, setting microprocessor-based relays, field commissioning of electrical systems, and NYISO interconnect studies is advantageous.
• Knowledge of NERC standards is a bonus but not obligatory.