Utility Protection and Control Technician

Eaton's ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Utility Protection and Control Technician. In this role, our technicians work remote, travel up to 3 consecutive weeks at a time, and will work additional hours and occasional weekends when supporting client commissioning activities. Travel is primarily in the Northeast and northern Midwest based on customer requirements. A company vehicle is provided for both business and personal use.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $83250.0 ($40.02) - $146,000 ($70.19) a year. In addition to base salary, you receive a per diem and are eligible for premium pay overtime.

Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

What you'll do:

As a Utility Protection & Control(P&C) Technician, you'll assist the Lead Technician in conducting technical operations and producing documentation including work plans, isolation plans and functional test plans. This hands-on role involves comprehensive testing and final checkout of installed equipment ensuring the highest standards of safety and reliability. As a P&C Technician, you'll collaborate with the Lead Technician to identify and correct any errors from design or installation, protecting employees, equipment, and the integrity of transmission and distribution systems.

• Work around energized "in-service" electrical equipment to perform testing and commissioning activities on reliability upgrades in energized "brownfield" transmission stations and occasionally on distribution system equipment.
• Develop isolation plans & procedures for the removal of existing equipment such as protective relays, relay panels, AC/DC panels, battery systems, breakers, transformers, SSVTs, CCVTs, PTs, CTs, linear couplers, etc. Provide technical support for the decommissioning, install, testing, and recommissioning of this equipment.
• Communicate technical information to internal and external customers and technical and non-technical personnel.
• Assist with testing of substation protection devices and related equipment, including reading / verifying all voltage and current inputs to relays and metering, trip testing, functional verification of all control systems, verification of all devices and equipment alarms, and other similar testing.
• Identify and resolve design errors.
• Directly witness or perform critical tests such as DC functional trip testing prior to energization and in-service.
• Support of field related substation testing and commissioning activities. Plan, perform, coordinate, and supervise on-site testing and commissioning activities as required by project scope.
• Provide field engineering support to the electricians in the wiring of the substation protective relaying and control system, verifying against design drawings.
• Assist in providing commissioning oversight of substation installations.

• 2+ years of utility substation relay testing experience OR currently enrolled in a 2-year relay testing technical program (community college or trade school accredited program) or a bachelor program in a related technical field with completion by January 2026.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or
  support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or
  STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485
  job portability, etc.
• Must reside within the United States to be considered.
• Possess and maintain a valid and unrestricted driver's license.
• Submit to initial and periodic customer required background and drug screenings.

• Associate or Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from an accredited institution and/or applicable military experience.
• 5+ years of substation relay testing experience OR combination of 3+ years professional experience and relevant technical education/military experience.
  Transmission substation relay test experience.
• Level 3 or 4 NETA or NICET certification.
• Power distribution field experience in servicing, maintaining, and testing electrical power distribution equipment. Ability to provide technical instructions, mentoring, and guidance regarding substation and electrical power systems to field personnel.

• Knowledge and practice of safety precautions related to working with electrical and electronic equipment.
• Ability to read drawings and understand various protection schemes and proper checkout techniques for the troubleshooting and correcting of non-working schemes.
• Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical personnel.
• Experience with relay testing software such as Enoserve (RTS) and Doble Protection Suite.
• Experience with relay communication software such as SEL Compass, AcSELerator Quickset (SEL-5030), GE (Enervista Launchpad), RFL (Gard PRO), and other common industry software.
• Knowledgeable with all aspects of the testing & operation of various protective relays and power meters, including all device types: microprocessor-based, solid state, and electro-mechanical.