Relay Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering – electrical preferred
• 3-5 years of hands-on protection & controls or relaying engineering experience
• Ability to travel to Solar + BESS work sites as need
• Strong communication skills

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Relay Engineer to support a large power generation company’s portfolio of utility-scale solar and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) projects. This individual will serve on the owner’s representative side, providing Protection & Controls (P&C) engineering support for substations associated with renewable generation facilities. During the first few months, the Relay Engineer will spend significant time traveling to project sites to understand the facilities firsthand and establish strong working relationships with site personnel, engineering teams, construction teams, commissioning personnel, and external partners. This onsite exposure is intended to give the engineer a strong understanding of each facility and the people supporting it, allowing them to effectively provide engineering support remotely once those relationships and site familiarity are established. Following the initial field period, the position will transition to a primarily remote role supporting substation P&C engineering activities across multiple sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Protection & Controls engineering support for substations associated with utility-scale solar and BESS facilities.
• Initially travel to project sites to become familiar with the substations, generating facilities, equipment, site layouts, and operating environments.
• Build strong working relationships with onsite operations, construction, commissioning, engineering, and maintenance personnel so engineering issues can be efficiently resolved remotely.
• Providing technical review and oversight of P&C engineering performed by EPCs, Engineers of Record (EORs), consultants, vendors, and other external engineering partners.
• Review P&C engineering drawings and packages, including protection schematics, control schematics, wiring diagrams, relay settings, logic diagrams, and related substation documentation.
• Develop, review, and validate relay settings and protection schemes for substation equipment and systems.
• Perform or review short-circuit, protection coordination, and relay-setting studies as required.
• Support protection schemes associated with transmission lines, transformers, buses, breakers, breaker failure, and other substation equipment.
• Review engineering designs to identify protection deficiencies, design conflicts, constructability concerns, or potential operational issues before they impact the project.
• Support relay installation, testing, commissioning, energization, and troubleshooting activities in partnership with field and commissioning teams.
• Review test plans, relay test results, end-to-end testing, functional testing, and other commissioning documentation.
• Investigate relay operations, system events, and protection-related issues and provide technical recommendations and corrective actions.
• Provide remote engineering support to field personnel when P&C issues arise during construction, commissioning, startup, or operation.
• Work closely with project engineering, commissioning, operations, construction, and external engineering teams to resolve technical issues and keep projects moving forward.
• Ensure P&C designs and engineering deliverables align with owner requirements, project specifications, interconnection requirements, and applicable industry standards.
• Participate in project meetings, design reviews, site walkdowns, and technical discussions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain accurate engineering documentation and incorporate lessons learned from the field into future designs and engineering decisions.

$55-$60/HR