Engineering Associate I

LCRA is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Transmission Protection team. Your work will include developing new and revised protective relay settings, ensuring compliance with NERC PRC-027 and other regulatory standards, performing technical studies for generator interconnections, large loads, and distribution systems, and providing technical support for field personnel. You will join a team of engineers working to grow and strengthen LCRA’s transmission system, collaborating with other teams in a friendly and helpful environment to ensure LCRA successfully executes its capital plan and supports day-to-day operations and maintenance activities. How You’ll Contribute:

With support and mentorship from experienced Engineers, you will:

• Develop new and revised protective relay settings for transmission lines, substation buses, power transformers, autotransformers, capacitor banks, and reactors
• Perform PRC-027 wide-area coordination studies, coordinating with other TSPs to ensure protective relay settings are coordinated in the transmission system
• Review short-circuit reports for new generation and large load projects seeking to interconnect to LCRA’s transmission system
• Develop and coordinate transformer protective relay settings with distribution feeder settings
• Develop protective relay settings for temporary off-normal switching configurations
• Collaborate with other Engineers to update and improve Transmission Protection standards and procedures

• Bachelors degree in engineering, engineering technology, engineering physics, biosystems engineering, mathematical science, physical science or related science.
• Driver’s license

How You’ll Stand Out:

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a background in power systems
• Knowledge of symmetrical components used to analyze unbalanced three-phase power systems
• Experience interpreting electrical design prints (e.g. relay one-line diagrams, DC schematics, etc.)
• Experience with relay coordination software (e.g. ASPEN OneLiner, CAPE, etc.)
• Software programming (e.g. Python, VBA, LiveCode, etc.)
• A passion for solving interesting and complex engineering problems in a collaborative environment, and a desire to learn, grow, and strive for continuous process improvement

Knowledge of ERCOT protocols and NERC reliability standards is a plus How We’ll Support You