System Protection Engineer
Alexandria, VA 
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Job Description

Who We Are:

Headquartered in Washington, DC, Versar Global Solutions provides full mission lifecycle solutions for challenges faced by our government and commercial Customers in the natural, built, and digital environments. With nearly 2,000 team members around the world, and a rich legacy spanning more than 70 years, Versar Global Solutions delivers a broad array of planning, analysis and risk management solutions, project and program management, operations and maintenance services, and information technology applications for environmental management and remediation projects, mission critical facilities and installations, and in support of readiness and contingency operations.

What You'll Do:

The Power System Protection Engineer will support Army OEI by providing insight into protection equipment of an electrical power generation and power distribution system and equipment to minimize interruption to service and danger to lives and equipment from abnormalities, such as overload, no load, black-start and short circuits. The engineer will study drawings of power system and makes calculations to determine type, number, location and correlation of protectors, such as relays, circuit breakers, fuses and grounding devices. The engineer will perform quality assurance design reviews for all protection and control documents and will assist in providing recommendations on how to make electrical system more resilient, including assessment of black start exercises and tabletop exercise.

What You'll Bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Mechanical Engineering from an ABET accredited university or any engineering degree from an ABET accredited university along with demonstrated engineering experience in power, energy or water fields.
  • Must have at least 10 years experience in the following:
    1. Protection relaying scheme (e.g., bus protection, transmission line protection, transformer protection), design and engineering.
    2. Engineering tasks, such as load flow and short circuit studies.
    3. Managing large-scale construction projects or experience in project management.
  • Strong interpersonal skills to provide leadership to collaborate and work with diverse teams. Strong communication skills to provide clearly and succinctly recurring and ad hoc project updates and synthesizing information for key decision briefs.
  • DoD Secret clearance is required.
  • Army experience strongly preferred.
  • Possess a Professional Engineering license preferred.

Location Requirements

The position will primarily work remotely.

Compensation

Expected Salary: $175,000 - $185,000

Versar Global Solutions is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the Company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. The Company reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's status protected by local, state, or federal law.

EEO

Versar Global Solutions is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Versar Global Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Versar Global Solutions expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran. Improper interference with the ability of Versar Global Solutions employees to perform their job duties is not tolerated.


Versar, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and employment selection decisions are based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Versar does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of: race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by country, regional or local law

 

Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Salary and Benefits
175000.00 To 185000.00 (USD) Annually
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
10+ years
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