Application Engineer - Protection

Job description / Role

Engineer with experience of managing applications for substation protection is required.

Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve knowledge of power systems, system protection, protective relays and their applications, settings, and testing, and all related SEL products.
- Expert in protective relays application, design and test & commissioning.
- Help customers apply SEL products through visits, demonstrations, training courses and telephone contact.
- Contribute to product specifications, application and testing software, and literature.
- Participate in SEL marketing and sales activities and industry technical meetings and conferences.
- Teach in training schools for customers and SEL personnel.
- Maintain customer database for customer application and quality information.
- Continuously identify, measure, follow, and improve marketing, sales, and engineering quality procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, equivalent degree, or equivalent work experience
- 3 years experience in power systems, industry practices, and system protection, protective relays and their applications, settings, and testing
- Completion of SEL Engineering Development Program or equivalent work experience
- Proven technical training, speaking, writing, and customer service skills
- Ability to direct daily work activities with general supervision
- Ability to travel
- Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills
- Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
- Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
- Background check results satisfactory to SEL

Preferred Qualifications:
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, with emphasis in protection
- Published application guides
- Experience using SEL products

Physical Requirements:
- None

About the Company

SEL introduced the world’s first digital relay in 1984, revolutionizing the power protection industry by offering fault locating and other features for a fraction of the cost of earlier systems. In the years since, we have grown and developed a complete line of products and services for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of electric power systems.

Creativity, extensive research, attention to customer needs, and a wealth of power system, automation, communications, and cybersecurity expertise drive our research and development processes. Our multidisciplinary teams of power, communications, automation, software, mechanical, and electronic design engineers develop products that meet or exceed customer needs for features, functionality, and robustness.