University Co-Op Student - Protection & Control Engineering

51099 - Toronto - Temporary 12 to 16 months

Hiring salary range: $2,064.34 - $3,189.88 / bi-weekly

Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.5 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.

It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One!

You will be a member of the Protection & Control Engineering group, which is responsible for engineering design of protection, control and metering systems for the transmission grid in Ontario.

Selected candidate(s) will be placed into one of the three disciplines:

Protection engineers design protection systems which involve power studies, integrating intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) to interface with power equipment, configuring settings for IEDs, implementing logic diagrams, and marking up drawings for design.

Control engineers design an infrastructure to control, monitor and alarm power system equipment and devices. This involves marking up drawings for design, setting configuration files, and various forms of testing to ensure the communication system is functioning as designed.

Metering engineers design circuits to measure load usage within a transmission substation and calculate electrical losses for accurate billing.

General Responsibilties:

• Under the supervision of a protection engineer, you will be assisting with projects by designing protection systems by helping with the mark up of drawings, assist with implementing logic diagrams, configuring settings into IEDs, uploading IED information into a cyber-secure system, and processing configurations that have been commissioned by the field.
• Under the supervision of a control engineer, you will be assisting with projects by designing control systems by helping with the mark up of drawings, creating and issuing configuration files, and point verification scheduling and testing which pre-commissions data points before putting equipment into service.
• Under the supervision of a metering engineer, you will be assisting with the design of metering circuits, creating documentation to be approved by IESO, calculating site specific load adjustments and calculating measurement error correction losses.
• In all disciplines you may be required to handle Cyber Security sensitive information, and communicate with different departments and field staff.

This job will provide you with the following professional development:

• The job will provide in depth understanding of the engineering required to protect, control and meter a transmission grid.
• Provides prospective engineers registered in EIT a chance to work with professional engineers and gain pre-graduation experience.

Selection Criteria:

• Discipline:
  Electrical Engineering

• Academic Level: 3rd year and above

• An aptitude to learn

• High attention to detail

• Great verbal and written communication skills

• Self-motivated individual

• Other requirements:
  The successful candidate will be asked to submit a Personal Risk Assessment from Metropolitan Toronto Police.

Hydro One requires that all students applying for student opportunities be enrolled in post-secondary level studies and be returning to full-time studies upon the completion of their work term. Exceptions will be made in cases where students require a work term in order to graduate. Only applications submitted via Hydro One's career page will be accepted.

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