Senior Relay Settings EngineerLeidos
Description
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The Leidos Energy, Infrastructure, and Automation operation helps solve utilities’ complex challenges through our full life-cycle, performance-based solutions. Our services include engineering, planning, project management, construction management, and commissioning for electric power substations and transmission and distribution lines; protection and controls design; and electrification programs. Utilities consistently come to Leidos for reliable power expertise, as reflected through our work with more than 75 investor-owned utilities and more than 100 municipals/cooperatives across the country as well as a growing number of private developers.
Your greatest work is ahead!
We are in search of a Senior Relay Settings Engineer to join our diverse and fast-paced Framingham, MA organization. As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in leading and designing utility substation and renewable energy projects.
Hybrid or Remote:
*Fully remote available.
*Hybrid: Two to four days a week in the Framingham, MA office.
*Must be willing to travel to customer sites and in-office / testing lab as needed.
Career development and growth including:
- Professional Engineer License (PE)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Technical & non-technical training opportunities
- Mentorship Program
What you’ll be doing:
- Work with protection engineers and perform quality reviews on relay setting packages.
- Create logic diagrams for IEC61850 substations.
- Work directly with clients as well as other staff in remote office locations.
- Support a full range of project planning activities through design and construction support.
- Prepare relay settings from 4.16kV through 500kV including relay set points, logic diagrams, configuration files and documentation.
- Solve challenging substation engineering problems.
What does Leidos need from me?
- Senior Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and four plus years of related experience.
- Lead Level: Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) and eight plus years of related experience.
- Experience creating relay settings and logic diagrams.
- Capable of using Aspen OneLiner and/or Siemen’s CAPE for coordination studies and fault study analysis.
- Preparation of protective relay coordination studies
- Experience with development of relay settings for microprocessor relays including: SEL, Alstom, GE, ABB and others for both transmission line relays (Line Differential, Step Distance and Pilot Schemes) and substation relays (Capacitors, Transformers and buses).
- Familiarity with Schweitzer AcSELerator QuickSet, General Electric EnerVista and Schneider Electric MiCOM software is a plus.
- Strong engineering and interpersonal skills and high attention to detail with a passion for quality.
- Experience implementing control and protection schemes including interpreting schematics and wiring diagrams and preparing relay logic to complete the schemes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required when interfacing with clients and staff.
Favorable if you have:
- Experience preparing technical reports.
- Familiarity with PTC Mathcad software.
- Previous Quality Assurance/Quality Control experience.
- Periodic travel may be required.
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Original Posting:
January 13, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
