We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity.
We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work.
Join us and let us focus together on what's truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.
Why you'll love working for Siemens!
- Freedom and a healthy work
- life balance
- Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
- Solve the world's most significant problems - Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get rewards for them!
- Diversity and inclusivity focused.
Specific Job Responsibilities
General Responsibilities:
- Configure and test protection relays and/or RTUs/PLCs for protection and controls schemes of substations systems and generation stations
- Prepare (FAT) Factory Acceptance Test procedures & testing environments for customer projects
- Implement protection schemes and logic diagrams based on technical drawings
- Download relay configuration to devices in the factory
- Download PLC/RTU configuration to IEDs in the factory
- Perform functional testing of MV-AIS/GIS switchgear integrated with Control and Protection IEDs installed in the gear.
- Test and Verify Peer-to Peer relay and RTU communication (IEC61850 GOOSE / SEL Mirrored-Bits)
- Be one of our primary customer interfaces for Factory Tests, including trouble shooting and support
- Occasionally assist in developing new order proposals (bills of materials, estimated engineering hours, etc.)
- Report processes and tools inefficiencies and suggests improvements ideas.
- Specific Responsibilities: Protection and Control Relay Applications Engineer
- Travel to US customer sites is expected for testing of Control and Protection equipment as well as in Frankfurt Factory in Germany or in Wendell in USA.
**Required Skills**:
**Education**:
BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Similar with applicable knowhow.
Required Experience/Knowhow:
- 8 + years of direct experience in configuration & commissioning of Protection and Automation Systems.
- Basic knowledge in Communication networks and such as layer 2, layer 3, RSTP, PRP topologies
- Substations and industrial communication protocols such as IEC61850, DNP, Modbus, Profinet, Profibus
- Knowledge of automation software:
- Siemens SICAM PAS/SCC and/or
- SICAM Device Manager
- SEL accelerator
- SIMATIC S7 (TIA Portal)
- Basic Knowledge in electrical schematic designs for control and protection of Low, Medium and High Voltage systems.
- Power System protection applied to Low, Medium and High Voltage systems
- Medium voltage protection schemes (including design of transfer schemes and reverse interlocking schemes)
- Busbar protection
- Transformer protection
- Breaker failure protection
- Knowledge of Siemens, GE, SEL or ABB relay products and associated software
Considered a Plus - Not Required:
- Capacitor bank protection
- Communication Network Technologies, including Design, Configuration, and troubleshooting
- Communication protocols such as IEC103, IEC101, IEC104.
- Knowledge of ANSI standards, IEC standards.
- Line Transmission and Distribution protection
- Generator protection for small, medium, and large generators (including protection settings calculation)
- Knowledge of the multiple vendors' relay products and associated software
- Drafting abilities using AutoCAD or MicroStation
- C Programming Language experience.
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