Senior Control and Protection Application Engineer - Controls Engineering

Description

The role sits in the controls engineering group and covers HVDC control and protection from requirements through to design and testing.

The team works on VSC-HVDC schemes, and the lead acts as the main technical contact for the customer.

Responsibilities

• You own the end-to-end technical solution and make sure it meets customer requirements using reference solutions.
• You lead requirements gathering, system design, implementation and development of HVDC control and protection systems.
• You review and approve technical documents, including control and protection settings, manuals, test plans and test procedures.
• You are the main technical contact for the customer, covering discussions, training and requirement clarification.
• You define control philosophies, protection and interlocking logic, and data exchange configurations.
• You lead design reviews and approval cycles, and check that outputs meet standards, system requirements and quality procedures.
• You run electromagnetic transient studies in PSCAD and EMTP-RV, and model control and protection functions in MATLAB and Simulink.
• You carry out network conversion, modelling, tuning and verification in PSSE, PSCAD and RSCAD.
• You build full plant and system models and lead validation across several simulation platforms.
• You lead root cause analysis and troubleshooting of complex VSC control and protection problems.
• You mentor and train junior engineers, and help managers build strong, resilient teams.
• You recruit and develop engineering talent to grow the department's capability.
• You find and put in place improvements to tools, processes, systems and solutions that add customer value and efficiency.
• You decide on work processes, schedules, priorities and plans to meet departmental goals.
• You uphold SQDC principles across teams.

Requirements

• You hold a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering, electrical engineering or a related field, or an equivalent qualification.
• You have ten years of experience designing HVDC control and protection systems.
• Your experience covers HVDC control, protection and sequencing strategies, and dynamic performance studies with system modelling for VSC-HVDC schemes.
• You have used PSCAD, RSCAD, MATLAB and Simulink.
• You have worked with real-time simulation for hardware-in-the-loop using OPAL-RT or RTDS.
• You have run system tests: integration system test, functional system test, factory acceptance tests and site acceptance tests.
• You have done control system studies and testing, including software-in-the-loop, dynamic performance studies, protection coordination and overall system integration.
• You have turned customer requirements into reference solutions, process improvements and consistent technical quality across multi-disciplinary teams.

Conditions

The role is hybrid: you may work remotely two days per week and report to the Oakbrook Terrace, IL worksite the rest of the week.

The company only hires people legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Any offer is conditional on passing a drug screen, where applicable.

For U.S.-based positions, the pay range is $156,229 to $207,700 per year.

Salary depends on factors such as experience, education and work location.

The role is eligible for 10% variable incentive compensation.

Relocation assistance is not provided.

Benefits

• Healthcare, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.
• Savings accounts, including health care flexible savings, health reimbursement, limited purpose flexible spending and dependent care flexible spending.
• Employee assistance program.
• Defined contribution 401(k) plan.
• Employee life insurance, optional dependent life insurance, and employee accidental death or dismemberment cover.
• Short-term disability and optional long-term disability.
• Pre-tax transportation and commuter program.
• Paid holidays, paid time off and parental leave.
• Layoff plan for salaried employees.
• Tuition refund program.
• Use of CariLoop.
• Adoption assistance.
• Optional identity theft prevention, personal legal assistance and personal excess liability insurance.