# Electrical Studies, SCADA & Protection Senior Lead Protection Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Boise, ID
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $153,600/yr - $260,200/yr
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Lead Protection Engineer to join our Electrical Studies, SCADA, and Protection (ESSP) team in Boise, ID, with potential opportunities in Orlando, FL; Freeport, ME; Syracuse, NY; Charlotte, NC; Overland Park, KS; and Richmond, VA. As a Senior Lead Protection Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, engineering, and conducting studies of protection systems for equipment on the bulk power system, including substations, transmission lines, generators, renewables, industrial, and distribution systems.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Develop and implement protection philosophies, relay settings, and integration with SCADA systems.

- Conduct protection analyses, including electrical model development, short circuit, time-current coordination, arc flash, NERC compliance, and event analysis.

- Lead teams on client projects to meet scope, schedule, and budget, providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

- Support onsite visits to collect data and communicate project specifics to clients.

- Maintain awareness of applicable industry practices for protection as outlined in IEEE, ANSI, or NERC PRC standards.

- Prioritize responsibilities effectively to meet client needs.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (ABET accredited).

- 12+ years of relevant post-education experience as an electrical engineer executing deliverables for Protective Relaying projects in power generation, transmission, and distribution.

- Professional Engineering (PE) license or ability to obtain one.

- Occasional travel may be required.

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and adhering to WSP's health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Proven history of leading and completing similar projects in a consulting environment.

- Commissioning and testing experience, or strong skills in protecting equipment at high voltages (69kV and higher).

- Experience mentoring others and a willingness to do so.

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on health and financial stability, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation; paid parental leave; and paid time off for bereavement, voting, and naturalization proceedings.

**Compensation:**

- Expected Salary (New York only): $153,600/yr - $260,200/yr

## Skills

### Required
- Protective Relaying
- Symmetrical component analysis
- Protection philosophy development
- Relay settings
- SCADA systems
- Electrical model development
- Short circuit analysis
- Time-current coordination
- Arc flash analysis
- NERC compliance
- Event analysis
- Leadership
- Technical guidance
- Mentorship
- Data acquisition
- Industry standards
- IEEE
- ANSI
- NERC PRC standards
- AcSELeratorQuickset
- GEEnervista
- ASPENOneliner
- CAPE
- SKM-PTW
- ETAP
- RSCAD
- SEL
- GE
- Siemens
- ABB
- Beckwith
- RTDS

### Nice to have
- Commissioning and testing experience
- High voltage protection experience
- Mentoring experience

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