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