Engineer III or Senior Engineer - Protection and Controls

Duke Energy - Charlotte, NC

Full-time - Mid Level

Charlotte, NC

Utilities

About the position

The Engineer III or Senior Engineer position at Duke Energy focuses on system protection and control within the Power Grid Operations team. The role involves developing and managing standards for operational technology protective relays, controls, and automation devices, acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field. The position requires solving complex engineering problems with limited supervision and entails hands-on testing and collaboration with various teams to ensure effective implementation of protection and control systems.

Responsibilities

• Development of standards, application guides, and position statements related to system protection & control reclosers, switchgear, and other distribution protection and control applications.
• Development of protection & control standard settings, logic, and control templates.
• Support the development of control and automation standards related to this equipment.
• Development of related application guidance documents for standards application.
• SME input into training and work method related documentation and training artifacts.
• Hands on testing within relay lab, field lab, factory, and field acceptance testing of new and existing concepts, working with switchgear, relays, and control components.
• Integration of various sensing, control, communications, and protection capabilities into technical standard solution systems for distribution.
• Close working cooperation with peer team lead for PGO Distribution System Protection Team and team members within DPAC ES, peers within Equipment and Construction Standards team, stakeholders within PGO Asset Management, and supporting regional Asset Management/DPAC team members.
• Support enterprise wide protection and control settings repository.
• Mentorship and peer leadership with fellow engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an ABET accredited program.
• 4 years of minimum required related experience for Engineer III.
• A Master's degree in Engineering will be considered in lieu of the B.S. Engineering degree.
• Graduation from a four-year college or university with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an ABET accredited program or state registration as a Professional Engineer for Senior Engineer.
• Minimum of 6 years of engineering experience or 5 years of engineering experience with state registration as a Professional Engineer for Senior Engineer.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge and ability to design, create standards, and evaluate system protection and control for medium voltage systems (4kV-36kV class).
• Experience performing system protection and coordination studies.
• Familiarity/experience with advanced protocols, IEC 61850 GOOSE, DNP3.0, including programming and testing advanced protection and automation systems with peer to peer communications.
• Familiarity with NESC Electrical Standards.
• Familiarity with communication control concepts, such as SCADA.
• Experience integrating and testing protection and control systems.
• Familiarity/experience with SEL protection automation controls/relays and associated configuration software.
• Familiarity/experience with OMICRON test equipment and associated Test Universe software.
• Experience developing/programming relay and control design templates, including development of system protection relay settings and logic.
• Experience creating standards, standard settings templates, and application guides.
• Experience performing factory acceptance and field acceptance testing of systems.
• Familiarity with related industry standards, such as ANSI, IEEE 519 Harmonics; IEC 61850 Communication networks and systems for power utility protection/automation.
• Transmission Protection and Control Experience.
• Distribution Protection Automation Control Experience.
• Distribution field engineering experience.
• Experience with Integration of power plant, distributed resources, or major industrial/commercial/government customer load facilities.
• Registration as a Professional Engineer.

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance Provided
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Recognition for your work