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As a Senior Product Engineer, you will lead the application and integration of Beckwith Electric’s protection, automation, and control solutions across generation, transmission, distribution, substations, DER interconnections, and industrial facilities. Collaborating closely with engineering, sales, business development and customer support, you will help deploy products and solutions that solve customer’s challenges by providing tailored solutions – covering from opportunity stage to post sale applications. In addition to applications, you will act as the subject matter expert on protection relays, controls, and provide thought leadership and play a vital role in product development.
Job Responsibility:
Lead the application and integration of Beckwith Electric’s protection, automation, and control solutions across generation, transmission, distribution, substations, DER interconnections, and industrial facilities
Collaborate closely with engineering, sales, business development and customer support to deploy products and solutions that solve customer’s challenges by providing tailored solutions – covering from opportunity stage to post sale applications
Act as the subject matter expert on protection relays, controls, and provide thought leadership and play a vital role in product development
Comply with all work rules, including but not limited to, the Company's safety and attendance policies
Work closely with the sales & commercial organization, engineering, R&D, and business development teams to develop and refine customer solutions utilizing Beckwith/Hubbell Protection & Control products and services
Be the voice of customer internally for product and solutions development
Provide thought leadership by participating in industry conferences, tradeshows, demos, customer visits, and publishing technical papers either as marketing collateral or for industry publications
Provide support in developing product roadmap, writing market/product requirements, and generating technical marketing content
Investigate / troubleshoot specific customer or product problems and propose solutions and changes that may be required for satisfactory resolution on an as needed basis
Review customer specifications, drawings, and other customer documents to assure proper application and operation of the company's products and systems
Provide pre-sales application assistance for quotations and bids
As required, act as a product expert in providing remote or on-site application support for new product installations, approvals, homologation, or pilot projects
Assist with planning and execution of product launches, seminars, webinars, and promotional activities
Willingness to travel up to 30%
Requirements:
University degree in Electrical Engineering (Bachelors minimum, preferably Masters) or equivalent with a focus on power systems protection & control
Minimum 10 years of experience in the field of utility or industrial power systems
Minimum 5 years of experience working in or with utilities’ substation, transmission, distribution, grid automation, grid modernization, operations, or standards group
Proven technical experience with protection & control IEDs
Understanding of basic electrical safety and 3-phase power theory
Protection & Control IED settings development (Protection, Control, Automation, Logic, Communications, Monitoring, Metering, Reporting)
Working knowledge of major IED configuration tools from vendors such as GE, SEL, ABB, Siemens, Hitachi, and Schneider Electric
Understanding of IED testing tools from vendors such as Omicron, Doble, Megger
Application knowledge of IEC 61850, Sampled Values, Digital Substation, Merging Units, Centralized Protection, and Virtual Protection
Understanding of communication, time synchronization, and redundancy protocols used within protection and control devices (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, IEC103/104, PTP, PRP) and familiarity with substation networking architecture
Advanced knowledge of protection functions, ANSI function numbers, and their applications (overcurrent, voltage, frequency, distance, power, directional, differential, impedance, distribution automation)
Understanding of the IEEE/ANSI/IEC/NERC standards as it relates to the protection functions
Ability to comprehend, review, and create single line diagrams for substations, transmission, and distribution systems
Ability to troubleshoot power system events based on settings files, sequence of events, reports, and oscillography data
Basic understanding of firmware/software development, product certifications, compliance testing, safety testing and standards-based product testing
Mandatory fluency in English (Ability to write technical content and effectively present to an audience)
Nice to have:
Fluency in other languages such as Spanish/Portuguese is a plus