# High Voltage Power Systems Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Fort Worth, TX
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a High Voltage Power Systems Engineer for their Fort Worth, TX office.

The successful applicant will be responsible for performing services related to electrical studies, SCADA, and system protection.

Responsibilities:

- Perform electrical studies, SCADA, and system protection services

- Support a broad range of activities or specialize in a specific area

- Protective Relaying: short circuit and symmetrical component analysis, time-current coordination, protection scheme and criteria development, relay settings calculation, integration with SCADA systems, NERC compliance, and arc flash analysis

- Power System Planning Studies: steady-state real and reactive power flow including outage contingencies, generation interconnect feasibility, P-V and Q-V analysis for voltage stability margins, dynamic stability performance

- Design Studies: substation grounding, corona, electric and magnetic fields, insulation coordination, transient simulation, power quality

- Networking and Communications: design and configure network and communication paths for Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), protective relays, meters, Human Machine Interface (HMIs), PLC’s and other SCADA system equipment

- Logic and Control Systems: develop and implement logic and control schemes for remote and local operation of power system equipment

- Write technical reports summarizing analysis with findings and conclusions

- Assist technical staff and project managers with risk identification and assessment

Requirements:

- BSEE, BSEET, or BSCE degree from an ABET-accredited university

- 3-5 years of industry experience performing design or device configuration in technical disciplines

- Knowledge of electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues

- Analytical mindset with the ability to exercise sound judgement

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications:

- Power system courses covering topics such as three-phase power, load flow and reactive compensation, protective relaying, symmetrical components, transmission line theory, power system transients, dynamic stability, and power system electromagnetics

- Internships and experience in technical areas and software listed in the Job Description section

- Engineer In Training (EIT) certification

- Experience in mentoring others and/or providing technical leadership in customer-focused engineering projects

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- power systems
- SCADA
- protective relaying
- power system planning
- design studies
- networking and communications
- logic and control systems

### Nice to have
- power system courses
- internships
- EIT certification
- mentoring
- technical leadership

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