Consulting Application Engineer

**Job Description Summary**:
**Essential Responsibilities**
- Execute engineering studies and analysis across the transmission, distribution, and industrial segments.
- Design and testing of customized P&C solutions (both in house and at customer installations) to meet user specifications & requirements
- Programing protection relays and RTUs
- Develop test setups, test plans, and test case (including wiring diagrams and configurations of relays and controllers)
- Perform in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)
- Prepare test reports, project reports, and project deliverables
- Analyze and troubleshoot field cases involving GE or third-party relays
- Participate in business development activities
- May require travel up to 10 - 30% of the time depending on projects

**Required Qualifications**:

- Understanding of power systems phenomena in transmission & distribution systems
- Understanding of power system protection relays, automation, control and communication protocols.
- Ethical and professional business manner in interaction with team members and customers.
- Customer focused; open to accept new challenges and share ideas
- Technical skills to execute projects and write SOW proposals.
- Strong learning skills.
- Willingness and ability to work across time zones to support global customers if required

**Desired Characteristics**:

- Experienced in study software and power system tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB, PSSE, Power Factory, ASPEN, CAPE for automating the power system study process.
- Understand of communication system protocols and architectures in electric power industry (DNP3, MODBUS, IEC61850, OpenFMB, etc.).
- Experience with RTDS or Opal Simulation Platforms
- Flexibility to work in a multi-customer environment and to adapt to requests/comments made in the course of execution.
- Experience with transmission, distribution, and smart grid standards;
- Strong communication skills including technical writing and presentations
- Knowledge or field experience with system commissioning and testing

Additional Job Description (for Internal Job Posting Only)

**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No