Ulteig is an employee-owned North American infrastructure engineering, technical services, and consulting firm serving critical lifeline sectors. Its teams work with public and private clients on power, utility-scale renewable energy, transportation, and water projects, combining engineering design with SCADA/EMS solutions, project-development support, digital decision-support software, and advisory services. Ulteig’s multidisciplinary work helps organizations plan, develop, and manage complex infrastructure programs.
Senior Lead System Protection Engineer — Ulteig, Remote US
Lead protective relay settings, coordination studies, and system protection work for Ulteig infrastructure projects. Support power, renewable energy, transmission, and distribution systems.
Description
- Provide technical leadership for system protection engineering.
- Lead protective relay settings and coordination studies across project scopes.
- Plan, schedule, execute, and coordinate assigned project work.
- Analyze short circuits and symmetrical components.
- Perform time-current and step-distance coordination studies.
- Develop and coordinate relay settings.
- Prepare test plans and support commissioning.
- Investigate and troubleshoot protection system events.
- Prepare NERC PRC compliance reports.
- Design protection schemes for transmission, distribution, generation, and renewable energy systems.
- Guide and advise other engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
- Degree from an ABET-accredited program or equivalent.
- A professional engineer (PE) license, or the ability to obtain one within one year of starting.
- Seven to nine years of relevant experience.
- Experience with system modeling and fault analysis software such as ASPEN, CAPE, ETAP, or EasyPower.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
- Strong knowledge of system modeling, relay coordination studies, and protective relay settings for systems from 12.47 kV to 345 kV.
- Experience applying protection engineering practices to transmission lines, buses, transformers, capacitor banks, reactor banks, feeders, generators, motors, or communication-assisted protection schemes.
- Familiarity with NERC PRC compliance standards.
- Willingness to travel 10–20% of the year.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment.
- Permanent authorization to work in the United States.
- Valid driver’s license, or ability to obtain one before starting.
Benefits
- Flexible workplace.
- Employee ownership.
- Competitive pay.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Collaborative environment.
- Innovative culture.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Remote, hybrid, or in-office work options.
- Drug-free workplace.