# Experienced P&C Field Services Technician

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Amarillo, TX
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is currently seeking an Experienced P&C Field Services Technician for our project locations in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

As a P&C Field Services Technician, you will be involved in projects with our POWER Testing and Energization (PTE) Team and be a part of a growing organization that is solving problems and supporting client needs in electrical testing and commissioning in utility substations, industrial, and bulk electrical power systems.

**Responsibilities**

- Perform assigned testing and commissioning tasks for Protection and Control systems on high voltage substations

- Perform on-site hands-on protective relay testing using relay test sets such as Omicron CMC 256/356 or Doble F6150

- Use field forms, digital data tools, and mobile applications to document site activities

- Perform equipment cleaning, inventory control, and calibration as directed

- Support the Project Lead or Field Supervisor on projects

- Escalate complex technical problems or unexpected field conditions to the site lead or project manager

- Participate in daily safety briefings and ensure compliance with health and safety protocols

- Communicate progress, field observations, and potential delays to the project team

- May review the work of less experienced technicians for quality and accuracy, providing informal guidance as needed

- Maintain attention to detail when filling out logs, photo documentation, and label entries

- Collaborate with other technicians to maintain workflow, safety, and quality standards

- Assist in monitoring subcontractor performance and activities and report observations to field leadership

- Perform clerical responsibilities such as timecards, expense reports, and project reports

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs

**Requirements**

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the electrical testing industry, including experience in medium and high voltage circuit breakers, power transformers, instrument transformers, and substation protection and controls testing

- Demonstrable expertise on transmission, generation, and distribution relays (SEL, Basler, Beckwith, and GE families) and protective schemes

- Technical skills related to protective relays include relay calibration utilizing test sets/measuring devices such as Omicron CMC 256/356 and Doble F6150, control scheme testing, testing of the sensing CT/PT circuits, ability to upload settings to microprocessor relays, and static & dynamic testing of microprocessor-based protective relays

- Proven experience with electrical field testing standards, practices, and procedures, such as NETA, IEEE, and NFPA applicable standards

- Demonstrable knowledge of testing electrical distribution, generation, and transmission projects with voltage levels ranging from 15 kV to 500 kV, including protective relays and circuit breakers

- Experience using technical software such as ProTesT, Protection Suite, ENOSERV RTS, Omicron Test Universe, and AcSELerator Quickset for testing purposes and data review

- Experience with reading and understanding electrical drawings

- Ability to identify routine field challenges and equipment issues, responding within established procedures and escalating atypical conditions

- Skilled in preparing field logs, sketches, and digital reports

- Physical stamina to work in outdoor and physically demanding conditions

- Experience collaborating with contractors, technicians, and engineers

- Demonstrated commitment to field safety, quality, and regulatory compliance

- Good interpersonal and verbal communication skills for field team collaboration

- Capable of critical thinking and problem-solving skills to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from inspection and testing results

- Capability to support a wide variety of tasks in dynamic or changing environments

- Ability to follow procedures, meet deadlines, and maintain accountability in the field

- Commitment to continued learning and development in technical field services

- Understanding of confidentiality and ethical behavior in technical environments

- Competent self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment

- Reliable, punctual, with the ability to work independently or with a team

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, drug/alcohol, and harassment policies

- Willingness and physical ability to lift up to 35 pounds individually, and up to 100 pounds with assistance

- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, basic color differentiation, and the ability to adjust focus

- Valid driver’s license and clean driving record

- Must be willing to travel (up to 80%)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Technology degree in a similar discipline

- Experience in testing and troubleshooting electromechanical relays

- Experience in testing and commissioning electrical equipment on high voltage substations such as CTs, CCVTs, PLC systems, and DC systems, including batteries and battery chargers

- Current OSHA 30-hour or 40-hour HAZWOPER certification

## Skills

### Required
- electrical testing
- protective relays
- circuit breakers
- power transformers
- substation protection and controls testing
- NETA
- IEEE
- NFPA
- Omicron CMC 256/356
- Doble F6150
- ProTesT
- Protection Suite
- ENOSERV RTS
- Omicron Test Universe
- AcSELerator Quickset

### Nice to have
- testing and troubleshooting electromechanical relays
- testing and commissioning electrical equipment on high voltage substations
- OSHA 30-hour or 40-hour HAZWOPER certification

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