Electrical Engineer - Substation Protection

Job title: Electrical Engineer - Substation Protection

About the Role This role is responsible for planning, maintenance, design engineering, project management and operations activities related to substation protection, relay settings, and fault analysis across Entergy's grid. It involves coordinating with design, construction and field teams, ensuring compliance with SERC/NERC standards, and supporting storm restoration and continuous improvement efforts.

What You'll Do

• Support and participate in project scoping activities for substation projects.
• Review existing relay settings.
• Coordinate with design and construction organizations to develop project scope and estimate sheets.
• Support project schedules and processes by using activity tracking applications such as Primavera.
• Model power systems using CAPE; maintain master model for relay fault analysis.
• Support wide area coordination; occasionally use ETAP, EMTP and Hypersim.
• Develop relay settings for substation protective relays, including fault studies for transmission protection equipment related to capital projects and asset maintenance projects.
• Work with field groups, distribution engineers and plant engineers to ensure coordination of downstream distribution devices for the system.
• Oversee, review, and approve settings developed by professional consultant engineers; this includes awarding projects to contractors and reviewing invoices.
• Lead activities pertaining to SERC/NERC standards compliance and other utility relations as required.
• Establish and improve relay testing laboratory; develop and support relay test plans for planned projects.
• Support development of RTU configurations; participate in substation visits.
• Provide technical support and protection system expertise in response to operational/commissioning requests.
• Manage documentation via Documentum for transmission system protection and other records according to company and departmental policies.
• Assist with storm/emergency restoration efforts as necessary.
• Support protection standard development and implementation as required.
• Investigate impact of relay firmware and software changes to Entergy system applications; develop and update templates as appropriate.
• Update group databases such as power line carrier frequency database and transmission line rating database.
• Access new technologies; lead better application development geared toward fault studies and relay settings.
• Lead and participate in Entergy continuous improvement projects; lead and develop less experienced personnel.
• Develop departmental guidelines/tools and provide training as needed.
• Research and implement smartgrid in Entergy system.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, or Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution; Degrees in Engineering Technology (Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, or Industrial) from a four-year accredited institution with PE may be considered. Preferred: Electrical or Computer Engineering Degree.
• Minimum Experience: Engineer I: 0-2 years; Engineer II: 2-4 years; Engineer III: 4-6 years; Engineer Sr.: at least 6 years.
• Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Demonstrated ability to apply engineering principles; thorough understanding of procedures, programs, and standards in responsible area; consistently demonstrates good engineering judgment.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with excellent written and verbal communication.
• Excellent math, project management, and PC/software proficiency; ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities and to work under pressure.
• Commitment to safety and ability to recognize and mitigate hazards; embrace diversity and inclusive work environment.
• Ability to recognize opportunities for process improvement and enact change.
• Certificates/Licenses: Preferred: EIT, PE.

Nice to Have

• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Self-starter, independent worker, self-motivator.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multi-projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of power systems, transformers, transmission lines, and protective relays; software or database skills.