Protection & Control Engineer

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This Position reports to:
Senior Engineering Manager

Your role and responsibilities:

As the Sr. Protection & Control Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and executing the protection and control engineering components of projects and ensure that all related activities are performed in accordance with ABB policy, contractual agreements, quality standards, HSE requirements, financial targets, and schedule commitments. Also, you will be responsible for engineering analysis and troubleshooting for automation, control, and protection in power systems.

Approach customers with integrity and respect for long lasting relationships. You will utilize your experience and expertise to solve problems, develop and execute objectives per business metric.

For this position, we are open to candidates being full remote or working out of our Houston, TX or Lake Mary, FL offices.

This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions group in the United States.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Engineering & Technical Execution: Lead protection and control engineering design for MV/LV systems, including relay selection, logic implementation, IEC61850 configuration, documentation, and testing support (FAT/SAT).
• Customer & Sales Engagement: Provide presales technical support, develop proof-of-concept demos, and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure customer requirements are met.
• Process Improvement & Risk Management: Drive continuous improvement initiatives, manage change processes, and assess project risks to ensure timely and quality delivery of engineering solutions.
• Communication & Collaboration: Effectively communicate technical concepts across teams and levels, coordinate engineering tasks, and contribute to planning and control of protection and control architectures.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelors Degree and of 12 years of relevant experience strongly preferred. Masters Degree preferred. Candidates with no degree and commensurate experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in power systems design / testing / commissioning regarding protection and control.
• Must possess a strong technical background and knowledge of protection and control systems for LV / MV and HV power systems.
• Must be familiar with power system architectures, troubleshooting tools for protection systems and power systems analysis.
• Proven experience with IEC 61850 based substation automation schemes.
• Experience with other protective relay communication protocols including DNP & Modbus is highly desirable.
• Customer focused. Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 40%

More about us:

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Why ABB?

What's in it for you:

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays . Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

While base salary is determined by things such as the successful applicant's qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $98,700 and $157,920 annually.

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