Engineer thru Senior (System Protection - Relay Settings)

Salary Range: $87,182-$145,509

Relocation: No About Us

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 143,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.

Position Summary

As a Relay Settings Team member, you’ll be responsible for providing relay settings and/or taking part in conceptual designs that conform to Oncor protection philosophies to quickly remove electrical faults from the system and providing technical support to region and district transmission organizations. This position may include, but not limited to, calculating fault duties, performing fault analysis and technical studies, and providing guidance in the analysis of relay operations.

Our System Protection organization at Oncor responsible for the design, support, and standardization of the relay protection systems needed to detect and isolate electrical faults quickly and reliably so as to minimize customer interruptions, maintain power grid reliability, minimize equipment damage, and ensure customer and employee safety.

We are considering applicants with multiple experience levels. Please view all details related to responsibilities, education, and experience level for each level of consideration.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide timely, accurate, well designed, and well-documented relay settings that conform to system protection philosophies using related application software.

- Understand the electrical design, application, and testing of legacy electromechanical and microprocessor protective relaying.

- Understand relay coordination methodologies and applicable software tools.

- Understand Oncor protective schemes and the proper application of the schemes.

- Analysis of operations of Transmission and Distribution protection and control devices.

- Provide real-time, interactive, direct technical support to region and district transmission organizations in all areas of system protection such as locating faults, creating protective relaying recommendations, and performing technical studies.

- Evaluate system impact for proposed projects.

- Perform Normally Open (N.O.) Switch studies to support system outage requests from Transmission Construction Management (TCM) for project construction.

- Perform root cause analysis and provide system fault duties and system impedances to Customers and/or external Engineering Consultants for the protective relay coordination at points of interconnection between Oncor and Customers.

- Effectively manage a significant number of assignments while maintaining work quality, reliability, and volume.

- Provide peer review of relay settings from other team members.

- Manage and/or review the work of contract resources.

- Present detailed documentation and plans ranging from basic to slightly complex design.

- Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs.

- Ensure projects meet deadlines.

- Managing project progress and adapt work as required.

- Effectively represent System Protection on working groups both internal and external to Oncor.

- Perform all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.

Skills

- Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Knowledge in at least one area related to Power System Protection subject matter.

- Basic knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook).

- Demonstrated ability to complete tasks and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.

- Demonstrated competency in using engineering computer software applications.

Additional Skills For Staff Engineer Role

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with internal and external key stakeholders.

Additional Skills For Senior Engineer Role

- Knowledge of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Protective Relaying standards and North America Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Protection and Control (PRC) standards.

- Ability to effectively communicate complex subject matter and company issues to vendor and Oncor Electric Delivery employees.

Education & Experience

- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related field required.

- Applicants capable of being licensed as a Professional Engineer (PE) or are licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas are encouraged to apply.

- Applicants with experience in relay settings are encouraged to apply.

In addition to the above, please see below for minimum experience requirements for each level.

Engineer

- 2+ years of relevant engineering experience required.

Staff Engineer

- 4+ years of relevant engineering experience required.

Senior Engineer

- 6+ years of relevant engineering experience required.

Measure of Success

- Compliance with listed NERC PRC standards is maintained.

- Field support is provided in a timely manner.

- Misoperation Reports are created and released in a timely manner.

Benefits

At Oncor, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, compensation and performance management programs designed specifically to attract, retain, motivate and reward our high-performing workforce. Our supportive and inclusive culture allows every team member the opportunity to thrive and make a difference. We invest in our employee’s success and well-being by offering such things as:

- Annual incentive program.

- Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).

- Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,000 in 2025) and other wellbeing resources.

- 401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.

- 401k match with student debt program.

- Cash balance pension plan.

- Adoption Assistance.

- Mental health resources.

- Employee resource groups.

- Tuition reimbursement.

- Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.

- Paid parental leave.

- Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.

- Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.

Participation in benefit programs for employees in collective bargaining units is subject to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.