Principal Substation and Protection Control Engineer
Public global power company that owns and operates electricity generation, regulated utilities, LNG infrastructure, renewable energy, and battery-storage assets.
About The AES Corporation
AES develops, constructs, and operates power-generation and distribution businesses, supplying affordable and sustainable power. Its portfolio includes solar, hydro, wind, natural gas, coal, battery storage, utilities, and LNG infrastructure.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and review substation physical, protection and control, metering, SCADA, grounding, relay-setting, testing, and commissioning engineering. You will coordinate disciplines and external partners, review vendor work, support procurement and field activities, resolve technical issues, and maintain project documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 10 or more years of substation, switchyard, transmission, high-voltage construction, or protection and control engineering experience
- Knowledge of protective relaying, SCADA, metering, power-system studies, and substation commissioning
- Familiarity with ERCOT generator and large-load interconnection requirements
- Familiarity with live-tank circuit breakers and current-limiting reactors
- Familiarity with BESS, CCGT, RICE, fuel-cell, and microgrid systems
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and resolve complex technical issues
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Professional licensure or certification is preferred
- Ability to travel as required
Responsibilities
- Develop and review substation, protection and control, metering, SCADA, grounding, and relay-setting engineering
- Prepare and review design criteria, calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, estimates, schedules, and scopes of work
- Coordinate interfaces across engineering, permitting, operations, construction, and commissioning disciplines
- Review EPC, consultant, OEM, and vendor work products
- Perform technical studies, equipment selection, design optimization, constructability, and value-engineering evaluations
- Support procurement, vendor-document review, inspections, and factory testing
- Provide field engineering support and review installations
- Investigate and resolve design, construction, software, and commissioning issues
- Support testing, energization, commissioning, startup, and turnover
- Maintain technical baselines, test records, and as-built documentation
- Travel to engineering offices, vendor facilities, and project sites in Texas as required