
Protection Application Specialist
- Oakville, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Freedom and a healthy work- life balance- Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
- Solve the world's most significant problems - Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
- Competitive total rewards package.
- Profit sharing available.
- Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
- Employee perks and discounts.
- Diversity and inclusivity focused.
- Develop and execute product strategy aligned with Business Unit goals.
- Partner with Innovations, engineering, sales, and marketing teams to promote Protection relays, automation products & grow market share.
- Analyze market trends and identify opportunities for our products.
- Build strong relationships with customers and partners to drive product adoption.
- Influence end users, consultant to have Siemens Protection relays added to specifications and project scope of work.
- Participate in and develop white papers to raise awareness of Siemens Protection & Automation Solutions.
- Aware of protection philosophy, concepts, standards and devices to be able to create value proposition for customer Protection System upgrades and retrofits.
- Be able to select right Protection and Automation devices complying customer requirements.
- Provide market feedback to Product Lifecycle Management for gaps and required improvement in Siemens Protection & Automation Products.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering preferred.
- 2-3 years of experience in protection relays, meters, and communication protocols.
- Good understanding of Substation Environment including LV, MV and HV Switchgear, Transformers, etc.
- Ability to interact with customers and colleagues as a subject matter expert.
- Able to analyze detailed Electrical Schematic Drawings, Network Topologies and Architecture Drawings.
- Good understanding of communication protocols - IEC61850, Modbus, DNP3, IEC101/3/4, OPC.
- Knowledge of Protection Systems (MU; process bus technology) and Secondary Distribution Automation Solutions (FSI/FPI) preferred.
- Knowledge of Other Protection Systems - Siemens Relays, GE Relays, SEL Relays, ABB relays etc.
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
- Bilingual in French is an asset.
- Ability to travel up to 20% as needed.