Distribution Protection Supervisor

Description

Looking for an opportunity to lead and make an impact?

The Leidos Energy, Infrastructure, and Automation operation helps solve utilities' complex challenges through our full life‑cycle, performance‑based solutions. Our services include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning for electric power substations and transmission and distribution lines; protection and controls design; and electrification programs. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 75 investor‑owned utilities and more than 100 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of private developers.

We are seeking a Distribution Protection Supervisor to support and lead our growing Distribution System Protection and Automation portfolio. This role bridges hands‑on technical excellence with team leadership, client engagement, and project execution.

• Fully remote available.
• Hybrid: (two to four days a week in the Framingham, MA office)
• Must be willing to travel to customer sites and in‑office / testing lab as needed.

• Leadership experience managing and mentoring distribution protection engineers.
• Exposure to utility reliability programs (SAIDI / SAIFI / CAIDI improvement initiatives).
• Direct client interaction and technical ownership of protection philosophies.
• Experience supporting system automation, FLISR, and DER integration efforts.
• Growth path toward Engineering Manager or Technical Lead roles.

• Oversee technical delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with utility clients across distribution protection, automation, and reliability programs.
• Supervise and provide technical leadership to a team of distribution protection engineers.
• Review and approve relay and recloser settings packages for distribution systems (4.16 kV through 34.5 kV).
• Lead protection coordination studies for feeders, reclosers, fuses, capacitor banks, and distribution substations.
• Guide the development of standardized protection templates and coordination philosophies.
• Support deployment of automation devices including reclosers, Trip Saver, and sectionalizing equipment.
• Collaborate with planning, design, SCADA, and field engineering teams to ensure correct device application.
• Interface directly with utility clients to review protection strategies, study results, and recommendations.
• Ensure quality, consistency, and compliance with client standards and NERC / NESC requirements.
• Provide technical mentorship and training to junior engineers.
• Support project planning, execution, and construction support activities.
• Assist with proposal development, scope definition, and technical estimates when required.

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with eight plus years of experience in distribution protection engineering, coordination, and utility consulting.
• Proven experience leading technical teams performing distribution fault studies and developing relay and recloser settings.
• Strong background in distribution protection coordination for feeders, reclosers, fuses, capacitor banks, and sectionalizing devices.
• Demonstrated experience supporting large‑scale recloser deployment programs, including development of standardized and templatized protection settings.
• Expertise supporting distribution automation and reliability initiatives, including normally‑open feeder ties, sectionalization, and restoration schemes.
• Experience evaluating feeder protection performance with respect to SAIDI and CAIDI reliability metrics.
• Proficiency performing fault current, coordination, load flow, and protection studies for distribution systems at 4.16 kV, 12 kV, 24 kV, and 34.5 kV.
• Experience applying distribution planning concepts to protection and automation decisions, including:
  Load flow and voltage profile evaluation, Feeder capacity and loading considerations, Identification of optimal recloser and sectionalizing device locations, Customer density, critical load, and reliability impact assessment.
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