Senior Protection and Control Engineer

BBA, Inc.

$100K — $130K *
Salem, NH 03079In-Person
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
  • Registered as a Professional Engineer or eligible to register within one month of hiring
  • Over 8 years of experience in electric utility, power generation, and renewables industries
  • Hands-on experience with protection system design documents
  • Knowledge of CADD software used in engineering designs
  • Familiarity with protective relays (SEL, GE, Siemens) and engineering report preparation
  • Basic understanding of utility cybersecurity standards

Responsibilities

  • Prepare protection and control deliverables like electrical schematics and wiring diagrams
  • Configure and set protection relays from various manufacturers
  • Conduct engineering studies for protection coordination and short-circuit analysis
  • Develop human machine interfaces and network architectures
  • Assist in the commissioning and testing of protection systems
  • Review and seal protection designs as a licensed Professional Engineer
  • Collaborate with client representatives on project specifications

Benefits

  • Annual premium program for regular employees
  • Group insurance plan from the first day of employment
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Annual paid time off (PTO) and statutory holidays
  • Premium for employee referrals
  • Interesting growth opportunities in a caring environment
  • Opportunity for site work as a career accelerator
  • Participation in major projects aimed at carbon neutrality and gender diversity
Full Job Description
Type of position: Régulier

Your future role within our team

Join BBA and put your experience to work byactively contributing to various project phases as a Protection and Controls(P&C) Engineer. You'll be involved in designing protection and controlssystems for high-voltage and medium-voltage (HV/MV) transmission systems,distribution systems and power plants across the United States and Canada. You'llalso be responsible for supporting site mandates to ensure work quality andsystem compliance before energization. You'll play a key role in projectmanagement, client coordination and delivering high-quality projects with theBBA team.

With us, you'll get the opportunityto...

  • Prepare protection and control deliverables such as electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, protection logic and control schemes
  • Prepare protection relay setting and configuration files (GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens, etc.)
  • Prepare engineering studies and reports (protection coordination studies, short circuit analysis, power flow calculation, arc-flash analysis, battery and charger calculations, transformer sizing, etc.)
  • Develop HMIs, network architectures and RTU configurations
  • Help prepare technical specifications, reports and other documentation for protection and control systems
  • Assist with commissioning and testing of protection and control systems
  • Review and seal (Professional Engineer License) protection and control designs
  • Develop or review outage, cut-over and testing procedures
  • Collaborate with client technical representatives
  • Work on proposal development, including writing and/or reviewing technical specifications and estimating project costs

Do your qualities and goals match theBBA culture?
  • Thirst to learn and excel
  • Willingness to work together while having fun
  • Caring mindset that puts people first
  • Desire to be in the thick of the action
  • Rigorous and ethical
  • Ability to share and pass on knowledge


Summary of certifications and jobrequirements
  • Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
  • Registered as a Professional Engineer or eligible to register within one month of hiring
  • Over 8 years of experience within electric utility, power generation and renewables industries in the U.S.
  • Hands-on experience preparing protection system basis-of-design documents
  • Knowledge of CADD software
  • Experience preparing logic diagrams, protection philosophies, wiring diagrams, single-line diagrams, three-line diagrams and other P&C deliverables
  • Experience selecting, setting and troubleshooting protective relays (SEL, GE, Siemens)
  • Experience preparing engineering studies and reports (protection coordination studies, short-circuit analysis, power-flow calculations, arc-flash analysis, battery and charger calculations, transformer sizing, etc.)
  • A working knowledge of communication protocols (MODBUS, DNP3, IEC61850)
  • Knowledge of relay testing equipment and experience with P&C commissioning
  • Experience preparing project estimates
  • Excellent computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office
  • Basic understanding of utility cybersecurity standards
  • Asset: experience configuration and programming PLCs and DCS

An overview of BBA's total rewards
  • Annual premium program for regular employees
  • Time bank
  • Group insurance plan from the first day of employment
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Annual paid time off (PTO)
  • Statutory holidays
  • Premium for employee referrals

BBA considers manyfactors when determining the annual base salary, including location, market,education, relevant and demonstrated work experience, technical assessment,qualifications, certifications and other relevant skills.

At BBA, you get many benefits

  • Interesting growth opportunities to match your ambitions
  • A caring environment where everyone's ideas are listened to and there is no perception of hierarchy
  • A collaborative team that shares its ideas and knowledge
  • Opportunity for site work: an amazing career accelerator!
  • Participation in our firm's major projects up to 2030:
    - BBA's carbon neutrality
    - 30% of women on our team
    - and much more!
  • Custom training and development plans


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