Location: Remote across the U.S. or Ontario, Canada
ID: 9586
Travel: Up to 20%, including occasional international travel

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead Protection & Control Engineer to support complex transmission and distribution projects involving HV/EHV substations, HVDC, FACTS, BESS, data centers, and industrial power systems.

This role will lead protection and control engineering activities from concept through detailed design, testing, commissioning, and project closeout. The engineer will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver reliable, integrated protection, automation, and control solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design of protection and control systems for HV/EHV substations and other critical power infrastructure.
• Develop and review:
  • Single-line and three-line diagrams
  • AC and DC schematics
  • Protection logic and relay settings
  • Panel layouts and elevations
  • Interconnection and wiring diagrams
• Define protection philosophies and schemes for transformers, buses, feeders, reactors, capacitor banks, and other substation equipment.
• Evaluate protective relays and intelligent electronic devices for interoperability, communications, control functionality, and system integration.
• Support IEC 61850-based digital substation architectures, including process bus and station bus applications.
• Coordinate P&C requirements with SCADA, telecom, cybersecurity, physical design, and other engineering disciplines.
• Review load flow, short-circuit, coordination, and transient studies relevant to protection system design.
• Lead or support Factory Acceptance Testing, site testing, commissioning, and system troubleshooting.
• Develop outage, cutover, testing, and commissioning procedures.
• Provide technical guidance to customers, field teams, and end users on protection and control systems.
• Support proposals by reviewing specifications, estimating engineering effort, evaluating vendor quotations, and developing technical clarifications.
• Lead technical issue resolution, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and engineering quality improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and designers on assigned projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of electrical engineering experience.
• 5+ years of direct protection and control engineering experience within substations, transmission and distribution, or power generation.
• Strong knowledge of protective relaying principles, coordination, and substation control systems.
• Experience developing complete P&C design packages for utility or industrial power applications.
• Ability to coordinate engineering activities across multidisciplinary project teams.

Preferred Background

• PE, P.Eng., or EIT designation, or willingness to pursue professional licensure.
• Strong experience with relay settings, protection coordination, and fault analysis.
• Knowledge of transformers, breakers, circuit switchers, reactors, capacitor banks, harmonic filters, and related HV equipment.
• Experience with HVDC, FACTS, BESS, or other advanced grid technologies.
• Familiarity with IEC 61850, SCADA integration, communications, and substation cybersecurity.
• Field testing, commissioning, and troubleshooting experience.
• Strong technical communication, customer-facing, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to lead engineering activities independently while managing technical, schedule, quality, and cost considerations.