Relay Settings Engineer

This position is available for remote work exclusively to candidates who are experienced, demonstrate high performance, and are capable of working independently with minimal supervision. For others, it's hybrid or local. This will be determined during the interview process.

Our relay settings group provides entire spectrum of services from standard development and relay testing to full cycle major brown field projects. Majority of the responsibilities will include producing relay settings for variety of assets, providing training, assisting with NERC compliance and standards.

Entry/Junior level is welcome given at least some of the experience listed below and / or demonstrated track record of success is presented (GPA, successful projects, etc.)

More experienced protection and control engineers (P&C) in this role are expected to have an expertise for at least 3 to 5 years for majority of the following:

- Direct experience with configuring and providing relay settings for SEL (accelerator) and GE (EnerVista). Experience with other type of relays (Bassler, ABB, Siemens etc.) preferred but not required.

- Ability to read, understand, edit and develop variety of custom logic (.rdb).

- CAPE and/or Aspen: Setup LZOP, CT, PT, Relay and conduct coordination study.

- Experience producing relay settings for variety of line relay setting philosophies: Line Diff, POTT, DCB, Step Distance using excel or MathCAD.

- Experience with variety of other assets: Bus protection, Transformer protection, Cap bank, reactor protection etc.

- Ability to develop protection and control drawings such as one lines, relay and control schematics

- Relay Settings engineers will also be working on engineering package development

- PRC / NERC / FERC / MOD compliance

Additional experience that would be a plus but not required as follows:

- SCADA Programming, HMI, Automation, Orion LX /Novatech, DNP and other protocols

- 61850 Goose messaging

- Other aspects of substation design; any experience from other trades within substation design is a plus such as physical electrical design, transmission line design etc.

Hive Power Engineering LLC (HIVE) provides engineering design and consulting services primarily in Transmission and Distribution sector (13.8kV - 500kV). Our core engineering services consist of substation design, protection and control, relay settings, renewable generation interconnections, power storage development, feasibility studies, power system studies and research.