Relay Tester Local - OH Substation Services - Marion Service Building

First Energy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

First Energy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, First Energy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

This is an open position with Ohio Edison, a subsidiary of First Energy Corp.

Relay Technicians must have a working knowledge of substation protection, control, relaying, metering equipment and their complex protective relaying schemes. A relay tech inspects, tests, adjusts, calibrates, trouble shoots, repairs and installs transmission/distribution system protection equipment. Tech must be able to understand switching, cascade, prints, computer, logic and labeling systems to the point that when any combination of the above are wrong, the tech can catch the error and remedy the situation while safely completing their task for the day.

The Testing of protection schemes are often required to be done in service, so a thorough understanding of print reading is crucial to properly identify and isolate any scheme under test.

Microprocessor relays require the ability to interface with various devices to download event files or capture test data. This interfacing requires understanding of how to use various specialized substation computing system software such as RTS, Powerbase, Doble Protest, Doble Prosuite, PASS, Omicron, AcSelerator and many others, all while strictly adhering to NERC CIP cyber security standards to safeguard all programmable devices to ensure the integrity of cyber secure areas.

Along with these devices, relay testers are responsible for all related wiring, operational checks, testing and evaluation of the scheme’s correct operation.

• Must be able to perform the basic functions of the job position while working alone
• Ability to adapt to changing technology
• Ability to navigate Corporate, Transient, and Sec Vault accounts to access and interface with programable devices.
• Have understanding of mathematics, such as algebra and trigonometry, to calculate phasors.
• Ability to interpret AC/ DC one-line diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, technical manuals and instruction books.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Respond to emergency conditions, troubleshoot and repair electrical.
• Be knowledgeable in electrical and electronic theory, including but not limited to microprocessor Boolean logic, Ansi Standard numbers and phasor diagrams/circuits.
• Must be able to verify and troubleshoot logic programming and logic systems.
• Must have knowledge in SEL logic setting language, ENOSERV RTS and Power Base.
• Must have a thorough working knowledge and understanding of computer usage and all associated software
• Must have a working knowledge in relay networking and Communication Software.
• Install, maintain, test, adjust, troubleshoot and repair substation equipment which includes, but is not limited to electromechanical, solid state and microprocessor protective relays, indicating meters, recording instruments, circuit breakers, transformers, regulators, capacitors, reactors, wave traps, load tap changers, circuit switchers, motor-operated and manual switches, wiring, battery banks, chargers, remote control equipment including various forms of SCADA/RTU, transmission systems, distribution systems and customer facilities.
• Perform acceptance, commissioning testing / routine maintenance of…