About the role

  • Senior Product Engineer leading application and integration of protection and control solutions by Hubbell. Collaborating with engineering, sales, and customer support to deploy tailored technical solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the application and integration of Beckwith Electric’s protection, automation, and control solutions across generation, transmission, distribution, substations, DER interconnections, and industrial facilities.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, sales, business development and customer support to deploy products and solutions that solve customer’s challenges.
  • Act as the subject matter expert on protection relays, controls, and provide thought leadership and play a vital role in product development.
  • Work closely with the sales & commercial organization, engineering, R&D, and business development teams to develop and refine customer solutions utilizing Beckwith/Hubbell Protection & Control products and services.
  • Be the voice of customer internally for product and solutions development.
  • Provide thought leadership by participating in industry conferences, tradeshows, demos, customer visits, and publishing technical papers.
  • Provide support in developing product roadmap, writing market/product requirements, and generating technical marketing content.
  • Investigate / troubleshoot specific customer or product problems and propose solutions and changes for satisfactory resolution.
  • Review customer specifications, drawings, and other customer documents to assure proper application and operation of the company's products and systems.
  • Provide pre-sales application assistance for quotations and bids.
  • Assist with planning and execution of product launches, seminars, webinars, and promotional activities.

Requirements

  • University degree in Electrical Engineering (Bachelors minimum, preferably Masters) or equivalent with a focus on power systems protection & control.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of utility or industrial power systems.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience working in or with utilities’ substation, transmission, distribution, grid automation, grid modernization, operations, or standards group.
  • Proven technical experience with protection & control IEDs.
  • Understanding of basic electrical safety and 3-phase power theory.
  • Protection & Control IED settings development (Protection, Control, Automation, Logic, Communications, Monitoring, Metering, Reporting).
  • Working knowledge of major IED configuration tools from vendors such as GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens, Hitachi, and Schneider Electric.
  • Understanding of IED testing tools from vendors such as Omicron, Doble, Megger.
  • Application knowledge of IEC 61850, Sampled Values, Digital Substation, Merging Units, Centralized Protection, and Virtual Protection.
  • Understanding of communication, time synchronization, and redundancy protocols used within protection and control devices (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC103/104, PTP, PRP) and familiarity with substation networking architecture.
  • Advanced knowledge of protection functions, ANSI function numbers, and their applications (overcurrent, voltage, frequency, distance, power, directional, differential, impedance, distribution automation).
  • Understanding of the IEEE/ANSI/IEC/NERC standards as it relates to the protection functions.
  • Ability to comprehend, review, and create single line diagrams for substations, transmission, and distribution systems.
  • Ability to troubleshoot power system events based on settings files, sequence of events, reports, and oscillography data.
  • Basic understanding of firmware/software development, product certifications, compliance testing, safety testing and standards-based product testing.

Benefits

  • Willingness to travel up to 30%

Job title

Senior Product Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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