Lead Engineer (Electrical Planning and Design), Electrical Engineering

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National Grid is hiring a Lead Engineer (Electrical Planning and Design), Electrical Engineering for Northboro, Massachusetts.

To provide technical expertise and support from an engineering perspective to ensure effective National Grid operations. This can encompass a range of duties including arc flash studies, coordination studies, fault studies, relay settings, protection reviews and repair, safety implementation and monitoring and participation in small- and large-scale engineering projects.

• Perform arc flash studies for National Grid substations and Transmission & distribution lines to determine potential arc flash hazards, calculate incident energy, recommend safety practices and protective equipment.
• Maintain a Database of arc flash values for reference by departments
• Compile arc flash study results and communicate with O&M and other departments in National Grid.
• Collect relay clearing times from relay settings by various manufacturers and vintages
• Work with project teams for options to modify Arc flash
• Provide protection design and lead coordination and short circuit engineering studies, analysis, and disturbance investigations, in order to recommend corrective action in problem areas, or to prevent problems.
• Independently collate and analyze data using ASPEN, symmetrical components, and manufacturer equipment software to support the department's decision-making process.
• Evaluate, select, set, and design protective systems for National Grid's substations and transmission lines.
• Develop transmission line and substation protection and control design briefs
• Perform relay protection coordination studies, design & review AC/DC schematics, issue relay settings for transmission lines, transformers, capacitive banks, feeders, etc.
• Prepare National Grid's standard protection and relay setting guidance.
• Provide technical support of protection & control systems for all voltage levels of National Grid's transmission and distribution system.
• Provide technical assistance to the field on matters relating to design, operation and maintenance of protection and control equipment.
• Preform grounding lead studies as needed for projects and field personnel
• Maintain a grounding lead study database for reference by the company.

• A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited engineering program with 10+ years of related experience is preferred.
• Advanced engineering degree(s) and/or PE preferred.
• Demonstrate good working knowledge of grounding, protection, and arcflash industry standards, safety standards, and existing electrical design codes.
• Ability to read & understand National grid electrical schematics (AC & DC elementaries) and vendor prints
• Must possess advanced understanding of protection engineering systems and design concepts.
• Proficient MS Office (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, etc.).
• Able to work with Powerapps to maintain arcflash database on sharepoint