Lead P&C Engineer

About K&A Engineering Consulting

K&A Engineering Consulting is a privately held company delivering comprehensive consulting, engineering and design services to utility and industrial clients. We specialize in substation, transmission, distribution, distributed energy resources, and EPC services, and we pride ourselves on employing top talent, fostering a culture of excellence, and building meaningful relationships with clients and employees.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Lead Protection and Controls Engineer to join our team in Binghamton, New York. In this role you will work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real impact in the energy and utility sectors.

• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with Avangrid TM standards.
• Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes to incorporate into new design.
• Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams, and operational descriptions.
• Review and perform area relay coordination and determine level of coordination required.
• Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps.
• Review/provide input to Customer’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects.
• Provide design support during implementation, testing and commissioning of the items.
• Provide feedback to Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices.
• Ensure all as-built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer.
• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects.
• Review/design SCADA point indexes.
• Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects.
• Review/design protection settings and settings basis.
• Review/design IED Data Maps.
• Review/create substation level operational descriptions.
• Review automated maintenance data gathering point lists.
• Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation.
• Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background in utilities engineering disciplines.
• 10+ years of relay/protection settings engineering experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience in Substation Design including general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, cable trays, conduit fill calculations, rigid bus calculations.
• Professional level skills in Micro Station and AutoCAD.
• IEC 61850/Goose experience required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license requested.

USD 112,000 – 120,000 per year.

People‑First Culture:
Your growth is a top priority.

Innovation & Learning:
Continuous learning and mentorship.

Collaborative Team Environment:
Collaboration drives the best outcomes.

Recognition & Growth:
Opportunities for career advancement.

Competitive Compensation & Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account
• 401K (Traditional and Roth with Company Match)
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance
• Long‑Term Disability, Short‑Term Disability, and Life Insurance
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Relocation Assistance

K&A Engineering Consulting is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Check out our career page for more information about this role and other opportunities at K&A Engineering Consulting.