Engineer, Varies - Relay Settings

Title: Engineer, Varies - Relay Settings
Company: Tampa Electric Company
State and City: Florida - Tampa
Shift: 8 Hr. X 5 Days

Position Levels:

• Principal Engineer

POSITION CONCEPT

Engineers (I, II, Senior, Principal) are responsible for ensuring that the electrical system is properly protected according to company policies and good engineering practice. They provide consulting services to other departments relating to system protection.

• Calculation or approval of 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 (~25%).
• Analyze the performance of the company’s high‑voltage electrical facilities, including malfunctions or failures 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. Review proposed construction projects and ensure they are properly protected.
  
  Evaluate new protection products to determine compatibility with the system. Perform fault studies for use by Engineering and Construction and other departments (~10%).
• Assist the System Protection & Control Specialist Supervisor with troubleshooting of relay and control problems. Serve as on‑call engineer for troubleshooting system disturbances and relay/control problems as required. Provide technical support to the SP&CS Specialists in relay testing and troubleshooting. Work with the System Restoration Unit during major storm damage. Maintain safety awareness in all aspects of substation engineering, construction, and operations (~15%).
• 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, outside agencies, and customers (~10%).
• Department representative for NERC compliance issues. Ensure department compliance to NERC standards and readiness for audits. Evaluate and comment on proposed new standards and changes to existing standards. Prepare the submittal for FRCC’s annual short‑circuit database (~40%).

SUPERVISION
Direct Supervision:
None
Indirect Supervision:
None

RELATIONSHIPS
Key Internal:
Substation Engineering, Substation Operations, Grid Operations, Grid Planning, Energy Supply Engineering and Operations, RF Control Systems.
Key External:
Industrial and large commercial customers, Consulting Engineers, Contractors, FRCC staff and committees.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education –

Required:

BS Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering college.

Education – Preferred: BS Degree in Power System Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering college.

Licenses/Certifications

Experience

• Engineer I – Minimum of 18 months, 12 months with FE, of power system engineering work experience is required. Preferred:
  Experience in power system modeling and analysis;
  Experience in power system protection is preferred.
• Engineer II – Minimum of 4 years of power system engineering work experience is required. Preferred:
  Experience in power system modeling and analysis;
  Experience in power system protection is preferred.
• Senior Engineer – Minimum of 8 years of related engineering work experience is required. Related experience consists of:
  Power system engineering in the electric utility industry including modeling and analyzing the power system. Preferred:
  Minimum of 3 years of direct work experience performing the duties and responsibilities of this position.
• Principal Engineer – Minimum of 12 years of related engineering work experience is required. Related experience consists of:
  Power system engineering in the electric utility industry including modeling and analyzing…