Senior Protection Engineer

Senior Protection Engineer

The Opportunity:

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) seeks a professional, innovative and detailed individual for our Senior Protection Engineer position located in Alpharetta, GA. If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your technical expertise in power protection and assist our industrial and utility customers with solutions on projects and on time delivery, then this position is for you!

There are several Senior Protection Engineer positions for the Atlanta Branch of Engineering Services. Join our SEL team if you want the opportunity to apply your expert knowledge and share this expertise in Transmission, Distribution, Generation and Plant System Protection. This division provides high quality, innovative and high value systems and services using SEL technology.

Alpharetta, GA is located 20 miles southeast of Atlanta. It is known as a bedroom community of the larger city but is gaining in popularity with its wide variety of restaurants and hosts art festivals and country fairs. In addition, this city offers a school district ranking high in the GA educational system.

Senior Protection Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a high level of technical expertise in electric power system protection.
• Maintain a high level of knowledge of SEL equipment and solutions to electric power system.
• Lead in performing event report analysis, product test schemes, protection scheme design and relay coordination services.
• Prepare and present successful proposals for SEL equipment, services and systems.
• Act as a primary customer contact on technical matters.
• Lead project teams to resolve customer concerns and foster customer satisfaction.
• Complete assigned work within agreed upon schedule and budget at the highest level of quality.
• Lead in training and assisting customers with the installation, commissioning and operation of protection systems, both on-site and from SEL offices.
• Assume Project Management role on assigned projects.
• Follow and improve applicable processes.
• Provide support for other SEL marketing, sales, application engineering and development activities.

Qualifications:

• B.S. and/or M.S. in Electrical Engineering from an accredited college or university
• Over 15 years working knowledge of electrical power systems, protection practices and philosophies
• Detailed knowledge of protective relay or automation applications
• Excellent technical training, speaking and writing skills
• Willing to travel up to 25% both nationally and internationally
• Professional Engineer in any state or territory in the US
• Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment
• Background check results satisfactory to SEL
• Negative drug test result(s)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience being a part of project teams
• Electrical utility, consulting or system integrator experience
• Extensive experience in power system modeling and stability studies
• Enjoy mentoring and teaching junior engineers

An Award Winning Company

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.

In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven performance categories including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of numerous awards, including one of the “100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State” (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 – 2003, 2010, and 2011), Association of Washington Businesses Manufacturing, Workplace, and Community Service awards (1998-2010), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).

Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards.

Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 2700 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.

Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.

Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the company’s growth.

In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.

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Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for all regular full-time employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.

To Apply For This Position:

We ask all candidates to submit their resume through our website at If your qualifications and experience match any of our current openings, please submit your resume for that position so that you may be considered immediately.

SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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