Job Summary
Dominion Energy Virginia’s Electric Transmission (ET) System Protection Engineering department is seeking a motivated Electrical Engineer to support the Company’s evolving distribution grid.
The primary responsibilities for this role include the design, modeling, and development of protective relay settings for Distribution, and renewable energy interconnections.
This is an exciting time to join our team as we are involved in industry-leading projects and initiatives like interconnecting 5000 MW of solar generation in the next 5 years, the first utility-owned offshore wind project in United States federal waters off the Atlantic coast, STATCOMS, IEC-61850, and the largest data center load growth in the world.
Job Responsibilities:
Associate Engineer
- Learn and apply basic protection philosophy and applications to real-world scenarios.
- Develop protective relay settings for System Protection Engineering (SPE) Distribution protection schemes inside the substation.
- Under the guidance of experienced team members, provide technical assistance to various engineering and field teams to fully develop the protection and control design package.
- Provide technical support to conceptual engineering teams, project management teams and ET Field Organization throughout the course of capital projects.
- Perform other duties as requested or assigned.
Engineer
- Continue to learn and apply protection philosophy and application to real-world scenarios.
- Develop protective relay settings for SPE Distribution protection schemes inside the substation.
- Provide technical assistance to various engineering and field teams to fully develop the protection and control design package.
- Provide technical support to conceptual engineering teams, project management teams and ET Field Organization throughout the course of capital projects.
- Participate in various company teams and industry-level organizations to enhance ET's system protection performance.
- Participate in trade and industry organizations.
- Support team with settings peer review activities.
- Perform other duties as requested or assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience
The knowledge, skills, abilities and experience required for entry into this job include the following:
- Associate Engineer: 0-2 years of engineering experience
- Engineer: 2+ years of engineering experience
- Strong time management skills with the ability to independently plan and organize work assignments.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, including technical writing.
- Equally effective with working independently or in a team environment.
- Ability to think analytically and solve complex problems.
- Experience with short circuit modeling software preferred.
- Understanding of IEC 61850 communication protocol for intelligent substation protection is a plus.
- Experience with SAP work management systems is a plus.
- Programming skills for automation of system studies (e.g., Python, .NET, C#, etc.) is a plus.
- Ability to interpret codes, regulations, and practices.
- Understanding of AC/DC fundamentals, including three-phase power systems.
- Understanding of the principles of transmission and/or distribution relay protection a plus.
Education Requirements
Required Degree (equivalency not accepted in lieu of required degree):
Bachelor’s in Engineering
Preferred Discipline(s): Electrical Engineering
Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.
REQUIRED ENGINEERING CRITERIA:
For placement of a candidate in the Engineer job series, the following criteria must be met:
Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an ABET accredited Engineering program based on the year that the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
Possess a 4-year Engineering degree from an institution outside of the U.S. which is accredited through the country's own Engineering accrediting body under the Washington Accord as a full signatory, and is a degree that was recognized by the country's accrediting body on or after the date that full signatory status was achieved, or
Possess a 4-year degree in Engineering (non-ABET accredited), Physics, Chemistry, Math or Engineering Technology and a post-graduate Engineering degree from an institution where the undergraduate degree in the same Engineering discipline is ABET-accredited based on the year the Engineering program was accredited by ABET, or
Holds or has previously held a valid U.S. Professional Engineer license.
