Hybrid Senior Engineer – Generation Electrical & Controls

at Puget Sound Energy

• Job title: Senior Engineer – Generation Electrical & Controls
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $108,200 - $180,200 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Flash
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bothell, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineer focusing on electrical controls and troubleshooting for power generation facilities at Puget Sound Energy. Requires hybrid work arrangement based in Bothell, WA.

Responsibilities

• Prepare complex engineering plans, designs, drawings, specifications, standards, evaluations, and studies utilizing specialized analytical skills.
• Provide quick, professional responses to assist generating plant staff with troubleshooting operational problems on complex plant control systems as well as a variety of power generation equipment.
• Troubleshoot operational issues related to generator control systems, instrumentation, PLCs, DCSs, and various power generation equipment.
• Propose recommendations for control system upgrades, component replacements and design improvements.
• Manage projects from inception to project close-out including creating project scope, budget, and schedule.
• Prepare specifications and request-for-proposals as well as evaluate proposals from vendors.
• Design and/or modify HMIs, PLC, DCS and Turbine Control System logic using various programming methods.
• Mentor and train other engineers and technicians.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree or PE license in electrical, mechanical, civil or other appropriate engineering field
• Substantial experience in planning, design, specification preparation, technical field work, project cost estimating and scheduling (typically achieved after 8 or more years practice as a degreed engineer)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience working in thermal, hydro, wind, or solar generation plants (desired)
• Experience with Low and Medium Voltage electrical systems (desired)
• Generator and Transformer maintenance and inspection experience (desired)
• Experience with Low Voltage electrical studies including Arc Flash and low voltage protection coordination (desired)
• Generator and Transformer Protective Relay experience, both electrical design and settings, as well as related NERC compliance (desired)
• Experience with Generator Excitation systems, particularly Basler DECS 400, 450 and 250N and GE EX2100s (desired)
• Control system experience with specific knowledge in turbine control systems – Allen Bradley PLC based hydro governors and GE MarkVIe turbine controls (desired)
• Possession of, or ability to acquire, a Professional Engineering license (desired)
• Experience working on complex engineering projects (desired)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Basic life and short- and long-term disability insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent daycare
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• 401(k) investment option
• Cash balance retirement plan
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Paid Holidays