Engineer, Production and Control

Company: K&A Engineering Consulting
Location: Binghamton
Posted on: December 2, 2019

Job Description:

Our Utilities division is a talented team of experts working together to provide solutions that are vital to energizing our future. We provide full-service electrical engineering services to support electric utilities nationwide. We're also fortunate to support wind farms, DER renewables and transmissions systems.
The engineer is responsible for the following functions:
1. Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti-islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. (anything outside of normal). Basically the goal is to ensure that we don't remove required protections already in place or at least be aware of how things work today before we modify existing schemes.2. Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with AVANGRID TM standards3. Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects4. Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required/needed (based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes)5. Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings6. Review/provide input to Owner's Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects7. Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above the items8. Provide feedback to Owner on existing TM standards and help refine the Owner's design practices9. Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Owner10. Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects11. Review/design SCADA point indexes12. Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects13. Review/design Protection settings and settings basis14. Review/design IED Data Maps15. Review/create substation level operational descriptions (HMI operation, relay front panel operation, etc.)16. Review automated maintenance data gathering (Digital Substation Data) point lists17. Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation18. Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items19. Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.)
The senior relay engineer shall have the following qualifications:
1. 7 years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience2. Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or electrical engineering technology3. IEC 61850/Goose experience required
K&A Engineering Consulting, P.C. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and supports the diversity of our employees.

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