Lead Engineer - Customer Application Engineer

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities

- Execute engineering studies and analysis across the transmission, distribution, and industrial segments.

- Design and testing of customized P&C solutions (both in house and at customer installations) to meet user specifications & requirements

- Programing protection relays and RTUs

- Develop test setups, test plans, and test case (including wiring diagrams and configurations of relays and controllers)

- Perform in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) including Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) tests using real-time digital simulators

- Prepare test reports, project reports, and project deliverables

- Analyze and troubleshoot field cases involving GE or third-party relays

- Participate in business development activities to grow services, including writing and presenting technical papers, delivering customer presentations,

- Conduct training sessions for customers.

- May require travel up to 10 - 30% of the time depending on projects

Required Qualifications:

- B.S (Masters or higher is preferred) in Electrical, Computer or Power Systems Engineering with very good understanding of power system applications and analysis.

- Minimum (4) years of experience in protection, control, and automation applications

- Understanding of power systems phenomena in transmission & distribution systems

- Understanding of power system protection relays, automation, control and communication protocols.

- Ethical and professional business manner in interaction with team members and customers.

- Customer focused; open to accept new challenges and share ideas

- Technical skills to execute projects and write SOW proposals.

- Strong learning skills.

- Willingness and ability to work across time zones to support global customers if required

Desired Characteristics:

- Experienced in study software and power system tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB, PSSE, Power Factory, ASPEN, CAPE for automating the power system study process.

- Understand of communication system protocols and architectures in electric power industry (DNP3, MODBUS, IEC61850, OpenFMB, etc.).

- Experience with RTDS or Opal Simulation Platforms

- Flexibility to work in a multi-customer environment and to adapt to requests/comments made in the course of execution.

- Experience with transmission, distribution, and smart grid standards;

- Strong communication skills including technical writing and presentations

- Knowledge or field experience with system commissioning and testing