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Principal Substation P&C Engineer

ENTRUST Solutions Group
Albany, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 11/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/16/2025
Join Our Team as a P&C Engineer!

Are you passionate about power systems and looking to make a significant impact in the field of protective relaying and control systems? We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team!

What You'll Do

  • Stay Ahead: Keep up to date with NERC and NPCC protection and control standards.
  • Innovate: Engineer protective relay and control systems, calculate relay settings, create relay control logic, and analyze relay operations for transmission/distribution substations.
  • Communicate: Apply your knowledge of relay communications theory, testing practices, and maintain relay communications network infrastructure.
  • Simulate: Model primary and secondary systems in power system simulation software platforms like CAPE or ASPEN.
  • Automate: Utilize your experience with IEC 61850 substation automation architecture, logic, and protocols.
  • Specify: Prepare specifications for purchasing protection, communication equipment, and instrument transformers, and evaluate bid proposals to provide technical recommendations.
  • Analyze: Perform system disturbance analysis and recommend protective relaying system modifications and/or additions.
  • Review: Ensure proper relay coordination margin by reviewing existing protective relay settings and recommending changes if required. Document and recommend protection system improvements.
  • Collaborate: Interface with manufacturers, professional organizations, regulatory and standardizing bodies (e.g., NPCC, IEEE) to stay conversant with power system protection and control requirements.
  • Develop: Utilize communication systems including power line carrier, leased telephone circuits, microwave links, and fiber optic technology to develop protective relaying systems.
  • Monitor: Use state-of-the-art microprocessor-based digital transient recorders and integrated sequence-of-event recorders in complex monitoring and logging systems for system performance analysis.
  • Calculate: Perform special short circuit studies and other complex calculations to establish relay settings using sophisticated software analysis programs.

Required Qualifications

  • P&C substation engineer with at least ten years of experience.
  • Senior level electrical engineer with the ability to interact with clients to accurately interpret technical requirements based on the information provided.
  • Must have experience with protective relaying system modifications and/or additions.
  • Must have a PE.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

  • Innovative Environment: Work with cutting-edge technology and be at the forefront of power system protection.
  • Collaborative Team: Join a team of experts who are passionate about what they do and eager to share their knowledge.
  • Professional Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Impactful Work: Make a real difference in the reliability and safety of power systems.

Not quite right for you? For a full listing of all our openings, please visit us at:

https://entrustsol.com/careers/

Who We Are

ENTRUST Solutions Group, an ENR Top 100 company, is a community of people, 3,000 strong, who are committed to our clients and each other. We provide comprehensive and dependable engineering, consulting, and automation services to gas and electric utilities, telecommunication service providers, pipeline operators, and industrial companies.

In Return For Top Talent, ENTRUST Solutions Group Offers

  • Generous paid time off and benefits
  • 401(k) retirement program with a company match
  • Career development programs
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible work schedule

To learn more about ENTRUST Benefits and Culture, please visit our company LinkedIn page and follow us at:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/entrustsolutionsgroup

ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. ENTRUST Solutions Group does not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with ENTRUST Solutions Group.

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