Engineering Manager, Relay SettingsLeidos
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 an Engineering Manager to join our diverse and fast-paced 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.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and manage a team of eight plus engineers to develop relay settings from 4.16kV through 500kV including relay set points, logic diagrams, configuration files and documentation.
- Review work provided by Client and assess requirements of scopes.
- Showcase expertise in dealing with customers and outside vendors, while collaborating effectively with field engineers.
- Comply with Leidos and Client Safety requirements as well as design and quality expectations.
- Solve challenging substation engineering problems for entire project cycle.
- Clearly communicate design and engineering requirements to both internal teams and external vendors on behalf of clients.
- Work with protection engineers and performing 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.
- Assignments will cover the full range of project planning through design and construction support.
What does Leidos need from me?
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) ten plus years of related experience.
- Experience managing and leading a team of engineers.
- Experience with creating relay settings, settings calculation templates and logic diagrams highly preferred.
- Experience working with EPC clients is preferred.
- Capable of using either Aspen OneLiner, ETAP, Power Tools SKM 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).
- Being familiar 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 creating & implementing protection and control schemes including interpreting schematics and wiring diagrams and implement relay logic.
- Ability to meet deadlines under pressure situations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required when interfacing with clients and staff.
Favorable if you have:
- Experience preparing technical reports.
- Demonstrating expertise in proposal development.
- Familiarity with PTC MathCAD software.
- Previous Quality Assurance/Quality Control experience.
- Relay testing and troubleshooting experience.
- Previous Power Consulting or Power utility business experience.
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Original Posting:
March 17, 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.
