Position Information:
Job Title: Engineer - Protection & Control
Locations: Rochester, NY or Binghamton, NY
Salary Range: $87,600 - $109,500
Schedule: Office, 5 days
Engineer - Protection & Control
Job Requirements:
- 2 to 5 years of engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or technology.
- Experience with ASPEN OneLiner, SEL & GE Relay Programming, IEC61850 Standard, and protection coordination analysis.
- Familiar with FERC, NERC, NPCC, and state regulations.
- Strong knowledge of power system analysis, protection fundamentals, and compliance standards.
Job Summary:
As part of AVANGRID's engineering team, you will be responsible for the design and configuration of automation, data collection, protection, and control equipment subsystems. You will work on our extensive electric delivery infrastructure, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-effective completion of projects.
Major Roles and Responsibilities:
- Perform relay settings design and relay coordination analysis for electric transmission and substation protection systems in support of capital construction programs.
- Lead engineering contractors and consultants performing protection system settings for capital projects.
- Analyze disturbance event operations, ensuring protection schemes perform flawlessly. Develop and deliver clear, impactful fault analysis reports to management, highlighting corrective actions and valuable lessons learned.
- Lead NERC compliance programs applicable to substation assets and act as a subject matter expert during audits.
- Review of large customer interconnections and distributed energy resource interconnections to substations, transmission circuits and distribution circuits
- Represent AVANGRID on regional and national committees.
What We Offer:
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways
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Company:
NY STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORP
Job Posting End Date:
November-23-2026