Utility Protection and Control Technician I

What you’ll do:

As a Utility & Protection (P&C) Technician, you'll assist the Lead Technician in overseeing technical operations and documentation, including work plans, isolation plans and functional test plans. This hands-on role involves comprehensive testing and final checkout ensuring the highest standards of safety and reliability.  As a P&C Technician I, you'll collaborate closely with the Lead Technician, acting as a crucial safeguard 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.
• 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.
• Communicate technical information to non-technical personnel, educate customers, and present information to internal and external customers.
• Assist with all aspects of testing of substation devices and equipment.
• Identify and resolve design errors.  
• Directly witness or perform critical tests such as DC functional trip testing prior to energization and in-service.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• 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
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate or Bachelor degree in electrical engineering from an accredited institution and/or applicable military experience.
• 5+ years of experience in utility substation electrical testing 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. 

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Skills:

• 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.
• 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.