Protection & Controls Engineer - Memphis
xAI, Memphis, TN
What you will do
- Develop protection philosophy, one-line and three-line diagrams, DC control schematics, wiring diagrams, and relay panel layouts for the electrical system from the utility interconnection to facility buses
- Calculate, implement, and maintain protective relay settings and logic for transmission lines, buses, power transformers, distribution feeders, generators, and battery energy storage / inverter-based resources
- Specify relays, current and voltage transformers, trip circuits, lockout schemes, breaker-failure protection, and communications-assisted schemes (permissive, blocking, transfer trip)
- Perform short-circuit, protective-device coordination, and arc-flash studies; keep settings aligned with the study of record as the system changes
- Commission protection systems: functional checks, primary and secondary injection, end-to-end scheme tests, and in-service timing checks by using industry test sets (e.g. Doble, Omicron)