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Tampa Electric and its sister companies serve a role in providing critical services to our community during an emergency. Team members are required to participate in the response/recovery activities related to emergencies/disasters to maintain service to our Tampa Electric customers. Team members are required to work in their normal job duties or other assigned activities. Proper compensation will be made in accordance with the company’s rules and procedures.

Responding to storms will be considered a condition of employment.

The Engineer I, Engineer II, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer is responsible for ensuring that the electrical system is properly protected according to Tampa Electric’s policies and good engineering practice. The Engineer I, Engineer II, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer provides consulting services to other departments relating to system protection.

• Calculate or approve all protective relay settings for generation, transmission and distribution systems. Develop and implement the annual under frequency load shedding program. Calculate impedances for transmission lines and other system components. Assist in specifying positive and zero sequence impedances for new power transformers. Calculate interrupting duty on all circuit breakers and ensure interrupting ratings are not exceeded.
• Analyze the performance of Tampa Electric Company’s high voltage electrical facilities, including malfunctions or failure of equipment and make recommendations for remedial procedures. Design and maintain the digital fault recorder network as well as the automatic polling system for digital relays installed in transmission and distribution substations. Assist in selecting protective relay schemes to be used on the Tampa Electric system.
  
  Review proposed construction projects and ensure they may be protected properly. Help evaluate new protection products to determine if they are appropriate for the TECO system. Perform fault studies for use by ED Engineering and Construction and other company departments.
• Assist the System Protection & Control Specialist Supervisor with troubleshooting of relay and control problems. Take part as on‑call engineer (technical support) for troubleshooting system disturbances and relay/control problems as required. Provide technical support to the SP&CS Specialists in the area of relay testing and troubleshooting. Work in cooperation with the System Restoration Unit in the event of major storm damage.
  
  Maintain at all times awareness of safety in all aspects of substation engineering, construction and operations.
• Provide technical support in analysis and understanding of distribution system protection and coordination as required by district and area engineering, customers and others. Provide protection related data for other divisions of the company, outside agencies, and customers as required.
• Department representative for NERC compliance issues. Ensure department compliance to NERC standards and readiness for NERC audits. Evaluate and comment on proposed new standards and changes to…