Protection and Control Engineer
John Wood Group
- Vancouver, BC
- 80.000-115.000 $ par an
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Providing technical leadership and support to a team of engineers and designers to develop protection, control, and metering system design for electrical substations ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV from conceptual stage through construction and commissioning
- On assigned projects, serving as Technical Lead and:
- Developing protection planning and application documents, one-lines, schematics, panel layouts and wiring diagrams for power system protective relaying and metering systems
- Performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems
- Reviewing or preparing engineering drawings/documents, specifications, construction and outage staging plans, and inspection and testing plans/procedures
- Supporting construction and commissioning activities
- Performing factory inspections
- Participating in client technical, Safety by Design and constructability review meetings
- Reviewing or preparing project conceptual, feasibility and definition phase scopes and estimates
- Supporting Business Development team in preparing proposals and estimates
- Liaising with clients at the discipline level on technical matters
- Reviewing new engineering standards, design practices, guides, etc. from clients and sharing with the P&C team
- Enhancing and maintaining relationships with internal groups as well as external contractors and clients
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Minimum 5 years of utility-specific protection, control, SCADA and metering experience. Experience executing EPCM projects is considered an asset
- Electrical Engineering Degree from a recognized university along with the ability to register as a Professional Engineer in Canada and/or the United States
- 3-4 years of experience in performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high voltage utility transmission systems is considered an asset
- Proven working experience of relay setting software such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM Power Tools as well as SEL and GE relay programming software
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
- Proven field experience with outage planning, construction sequencing and commissioning is considered an asset
- Familiarity with utility protection and control maintenance and operational practices is considered an asset
- Clean driving record/abstract