Protection and Controls - Substations - Electrical Engineer - Remote (U.S.)

AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm dedicated to delivering a better world. They are seeking a Protection and Controls Engineer to support their Energy Business Line's Engineering Center of Excellence in Grid Modernization programs, focusing on electrical engineering design and mentorship for junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the electrical engineering design work on assigned projects
• Provide mentorship for the other electrical engineers in our High Voltage/Power team
• Working with Project Engineer and Project Manager on developing design schedules and budgets for electrical engineering work activities
• Performing Power system studies and system protection settings coordination on various project
• Generate basis of design documentation for protection settings and relay configurations
• Supporting projects during construction, start-up, and commissioning
• Reviewing engineering work performed by peers
• Attending client meetings
• Occasional travel to client and/or project sites (including data gathering and field walks)
• Mentor early career engineers and facilitate internal training sessions, if requested
• Serves as lead engineer on projects of all sizes
• Senior technical resource may serve as technical advisor for team
• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise
• Develops study and design procedures to facilitate high quality cost effective work by others
• Participates in interdisciplinary review of project deliverables
• Develops construction cost estimates and estimates of technical efforts for projects
• Uses expertise in all steps of completing discipline component of PS&E package
• Performs quality control review of design calculations or drawings
• Prepares technical specification sections
• Provides input to the development of engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• 6 years of relevant protection and controls experience in electrical engineering
• Professional Engineering licensure
• 8+ Years of experience with 2+ years as a project lead
• Knowledge of FERC and NERC requirements
• Experience with IEC61850
• Successful track record working with remote teams
• Experience on full EPC, Design/Build projects from start to finish
• Plant Startup and Commissioning Field Experience
• Power systems analysis software experience (SKM, EasyPower, Etap)
• Relay coordination utilizing ASPEN OneLiner
• Experience developing native relay setting files
• Distribution automation experience
• Experience working in collaborative 3D model environments (e.g. Navisworks)