Description

Austin Energy is a growing, dynamic, municipal utility in Austin, Texas. Serving as the 3rd largest community-owned utility in the nation, Austin Energy serves more than 500k customers with an annual budget of over $1.5B, with over 2,000 employees. As a department of the City of Austin, the Austin City Council sets the Utility’s policies and strategic direction.
 
Do you have experience with Protection Relay Design and Relay Settings for Transmission, Substation and Distribution Systems? We are looking for a Power System Engineer Senior to work with us in developing and maintaining power quality monitoring systems, investigating, and analyzing Transmission & Substation faults and working with CCP and other work groups to facilitate compliance with utility regulatory requirements (NERC/CIP/PRC/ERCOT).  In this role, you will also be working on investigating power quality issues such as voltage sag, voltage swell, harmonics, imbalance voltage, transient voltages…then providing solutions to resolve power quality issues.

Working with Austin Energy provides a number of health and welfare benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave time, a highly competitive retirement plan, career development opportunities and more. Please click HERE for more information.

• Experience with Protection Relay Design and Relay Settings for Transmission, Substation, and Distribution systems.
• Experience with developing, measuring, and maintain Power Quality monitoring systems for electric utility’s Transmission, Substation and Distribution systems.
• Experience investigating and analyzing Transmission, Substation, and Distribution
• faults.
• Experience investigating Power Quality issues, measuring, and analyzing Power Quality data.
• Experience investigating, measuring, and analyzing Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) generated by high voltage Transmission or Distribution systems.
• Experience investigating, measuring and analyzing Electromagnetic Field (EMF) generated by high voltage Transmission or Distribution systems.
• Experience working with CCP and other work groups to facilitate compliance with utility regulatory requirements (NERC/CIP/PRC/ERCOT).
• Experience in developing written reports, Test procedures, Fault report, and conducting Technical presentations.

Candidates interested in this position are encouraged to contact Diane Kerlin, Austin Energy Recruiter at diane.kerlin@austinenergy.com and reference 100511.  Austin Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  

Requirements

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in engineering, plus seven (7) years of experience related to engineering.

• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Texas; or if currently licensed in another state, the ability to obtain a Texas PE license within one (1) year of employment.