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Project Engineer 1

GAI Consultants

  • Homestead, Pennsylvania
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    The successful candidate will work on various substation and/or protection and control engineering projects including detailed design for high voltage substation projects through 500kV, with a focus on “Client First” approach to all interactions. Development of and/or revisions to existing drawings for one line, arrangement, schematics and wiring, control and relaying panels and equipment wiring including coordinating with CAD operators to develop organized quality CAD drawings.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationHomestead, Pennsylvania

    Description

    GAI Consultants is seeking a Protection & Controls engineer with Relay Settings experience. This position will perform protection and controls design, provide technical guidance, design reviews, QA/QC review and enforcement related to all aspects of protections & controls design services.  The successful candidate will work on various substation and/or protection and control engineering projects including detailed design for high voltage substation projects through 500kV, with a focus on “Client First” approach to all interactions.

    Job Duties:

    • Manage, design, and perform QA/QC checks related to technical activities including, but not limited to, the following:
    • Development of Protective Relay Settings using AcSELerator Quickset and/or GE Enervista and producing Relay Setting Reports with background calculations.
    • Conduct P&C studies including but not limited to short circuit analysis, relay coordination, and load flow.
    • Development of and/or revisions to existing drawings for one line, arrangement, schematics and wiring, control and relaying panels and equipment wiring including coordinating with CAD operators to develop organized quality CAD drawings.
      • Integrate protection and control drawings to interface with the physical layout and design of substations or vice-versa.
      • Design of interfacing with SCADA systems and communications including RTUs, HMIs, and IEDs.
      • Development of control and relay panel layouts including assembling the specifications.
      • Creation of project criteria.
      • Development of design specifications including the overall bill of materials.
      • Design and sizing of auxiliary systems including AC/DC load centers as well as batteries and chargers.
      • Design and sizing of conduit, cable, and backup generators.
      • Point to Point wiring checks.
      • Review junior engineer’s designs, verify they meet client standards and specifications and identify gaps in client’s protection.
      • Document QA/QC reviews, maintain record documents, and communicate information to the team.
    • Mentoring and managing staff at all levels.
    • Managing tasks on multiple projects in accordance with GAI’s high standards of project management.
    • Managing and assisting with the development of the scope of services and cost estimates for Substation and P&C projects.
    • Ability to manage competing priorities using sound engineering and financial judgment to determine optimal solutions.
    • Must be flexible to handle shifting deadlines and scope changes.
    • Must have resource management skills and the ability to identify project barriers and mitigate them without schedule impacts.

    General Characteristics

    • Applies thorough knowledge of current principles and practices of engineering related to the variety of aspects affecting their organization.
    • Applies progressively acquired expertise to resolve crucial issues and/or unique conditions.
    • Keeps informed of new methods and developments affecting their practice and recommends new practices or changes in emphasis of projects.
    • Leads projects of moderate complexity and scope or leads a major project.
    • Analyzes complex problems across specialty areas appropriate to the practice of engineering.
    • Analyzes ethical dilemmas to determine appropriate courses of action.

    Minimum Years of Experience

    • 10+ Years of Experience

    Education

    • B.S. or M.S. Engineering  

    Certification/Licensure

    • Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states.

    Technical Responsibilities

    • Occasionally serves as the technical advisor in the application of advanced concepts and methods in an assigned area.
    • Keeps informed of new developments and requirements affecting the practice for the purpose of recommending changes in projects or applications.
    • Occasionally develops new techniques and/or improved processes, materials, or products.

    Project and Task Management

    • Oversees a project team of engineers and technicians.
    • Plans, schedules, and coordinates the preparation of documents or activities for multiple major projects.
    • Analyzes project management plans for complex engineering projects.
    • Understands project delivery uncertainties and uses risk management principles to address them.
    • Reviews operational procedures to ensure compliance with applicable policies and performance measures.

    Management Responsibility

    • Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
    • Mentors senior staff.
    • Integrates professional attitudes relevant to the practice of engineering and fosters creativity, curiosity, flexibility, and dependability in staff.

    Communication Skills

    • Applies principles of formal strategic and persuasive communications.
    • Represents their area of specialty within the organization and liaises with related individuals and organizations.
    • Routinely interacts with organizational leaders, clients, officials, contractors, and others.
    • Integrates concepts of effective teamwork and leadership

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