System Protection Technician (East Richmond)

Job Summary

This role performs maintenance, installation commissioning, corrective and cyber security activities on system protection devices, control circuits, metering, data communication, and carrier blocking equipment within Dominion Energy's Transmission, Distribution and Generating network. This position requires the successful completion of the Electric Transmission System Protection Technician Development Program.
This position ensures that appropriate compliance maintenance activities, applications, policies and associated documentation are managed and maintained in support of ETFO's Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and Protective Relay and Control (PRC) programs.
This position aids in the development of new technicians through a formal training program. Maintains substation control print files, relay test records, test procedures, methods, and service advisories.
Maintenance activities include routine calibration and functional testing of electro-mechanical and microprocessor relay protection and power line carrier blocking protection applications. This position is required to perform periodic compliance reviews, equipment vulnerability assessments, and the testing and implementation of security patches for ETFO System Protection equipment. These maintenance activities require a comprehensive knowledge of the protective relay schemes and associated data communication equipment interfaces necessary to provide Operating Centers with critical station Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) telemetry over a variety of protocols, using mediums such as Serial, TCP/IP and/or Fiber Optics. These activities ensure that substation protection, auxiliaries, and primary equipment continue to operate in accordance with Dominion Engineering design.
Installation commissioning activities include the review of engineering designs for protective relay and control applications drawings, logic diagrams, protection set points, and SCADA data communication interfaces. Assists Lead/Senior technicians in the coordination of commissioning activities and functional testing of primary and secondary equipment to ensure installation per Dominion and/or its manufacturer's design. Assists Lead/Senior technicians in developing in-service verification and final commissioning procedures. These procedures establish, with Operating Center, the energizing sequence of new field equipment required to perform final commissioning checks.
Corrective activities require utilizing the existing alarm network to: assist in analyzing alarms, identify potential problems, assist Lead/Senior technicians in developing corrective action risk evaluations, and extract information necessary to develop a safe and effective corrective action investigation plan for moderately complex protection and control applications. Activities regarding potential cyber issues related to protection and control devices require security assessments to be performed to verify the integrity of cyber security control at substation locations.
 

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

• 2+ years directly related experience;
• Successful completion of the Electric Transmission System Protection Technician Development Program;
• Knowledge of operation and maintenance of control circuits, protective relay applications and substation equipment;
• Knowledge of testing electro-mechanical based relays;
• Knowledge of microprocessor-based relay technology, including logic diagrams, variable equations, and communication interfaces;
• Knowledge of SCADA data communication equipment interfaces necessary to provide Operating Centers with critical station telemetry;
• Knowledge of a variety of protocols, using mediums such as Serial, TCP/IP and/or Fiber Optics;
• Skills: good verbal and written communication; computer knowledge; leadership and training;
• Abilities: test moderately complex protective relays, remote terminal units, power line carrier and metering applications; direct/advise technicians in major control installations; work under tight deadlines and pressure situations; carry heavy test equipment; work independently; plan and organize moderately complex substation construction projects;
• Due to equipment weight limits, individuals in this role have a weight restriction of 290 pounds.

Education Requirements

Minimum education required is either an Associate’s degree, Advanced Post Secondary diploma, or the required military experience outlined below.  

Associate’s degree or Advanced Post Secondary diploma by Winter 2025, in one of the following preferred disciplines: 

• Electrical & Electronic Engineering Technology 
• Electromechanical Technology 
• Electronics Technology 
• Instrumentation Technology 
• Mechatronic Technology 
• Other comparable disciplines may be substituted for the disciplines listed above; 

As an alternative to the above education requirements, the company is actively seeking United States military veterans and service members who meet the qualifications outline below: 

• Total of 5 years of military experience that includes at least 1 year of military technical training/education components in electrical theory, AC/DC circuits, basic electrical principals and calculations, Ohms Law, Fault isolations, and multimeter applications.

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

Due to equipment weight limits, individuals in this role have a weight restriction of 290 pounds.

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