Protection Engineer Senior (Santiago de Querétaro)

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what's truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you'll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work life balance
• Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world's most significant problems - Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get rewards for them!
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Specific Job Responsibilities

• Configure and test protection relays and/or RTUs/PLCs for protection and controls schemes of substations systems and generation stations
• Prepare FAT Factory Acceptance Test procedures & testing environments for customer projects
• Implement protection schemes and logic diagrams based on technical drawings
• Download relay configuration to devices in the factory
• Download PLC/RTU configuration to IEDs in the factory
• Perform functional testing of MV-AIS/GIS switchgear integrated with Control and Protection IEDs installed in the gear.
• Test and Verify Peer-to-Peer relay and RTU communication (IEC***** GOOSE / SEL Mirrored-Bits)
• Be one of our primary customer interfaces for Factory Tests, including trouble shooting and support
• Occasionally assist in developing new order proposals (bills of materials, estimated engineering hours, etc.)
• Report processes and tools inefficiencies and suggest improvement ideas.
• Travel to US customer sites is expected for testing of Control and Protection equipment as well as in Frankfurt Factory in Germany or in Wendell in USA.

Required Skills

• Education: BS degree in Electrical Engineering or Similar with applicable knowhow.
• Required Experience/Knowhow:
  • 8 + years of direct experience in configuration & commissioning of Protection and Automation Systems.
  • Basic knowledge in Communication networks and such as layer 2, layer 3, RSTP, PRP topologies
  • Substations and industrial communication protocols such as IEC*****, DNP, Modbus, Profinet, Profibus
  • Knowledge of automation software:
    • Siemens SICAM PAS/SCC and/or
    • SICAM Device Manager
    • SEL accelerator
    • SIMATIC S7 (TIA Portal)
  • Basic Knowledge in electrical schematic designs for control and protection of Low, Medium and High Voltage systems.
  • Power System protection applied to Low, Medium and High Voltage systems
  • Medium voltage protection schemes (including design of transfer schemes and reverse interlocking schemes)
  • Busbar protection
  • Transformer protection
  • Breaker failure protection
  • Knowledge of Siemens, GE, SEL or ABB relay products and associated software
• Considered a Plus - Not Required:
  • Capacitor bank protection
  • Communication Network Technologies, including Design, Configuration, and troubleshooting
  • Communication protocols such as IEC103, IEC101, IEC104.
  • Knowledge of ANSI standards, IEC standards.
  • Line Transmission and Distribution protection
  • Generator protection for small, medium, and large generators (including protection settings calculation)
  • Knowledge of the multiple vendors' relay products and associated software
  • Drafting abilities using AutoCAD or MicroStation
  • C Programming Language experience.

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