Job Description

About INS Engineering

Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, INS Engineering is a privately held power systems engineering firm with offices in Houston and Albany, New York. We help utilities, developers, grid operators and data center teams connect new generation, energy storage and large loads to the grid, from studies through commissioning, across all major U.S. power markets.

Our work has supported projects like a 400 MW / 1 GWh battery storage facility in Texas and a 100 MW solar project in Ohio. We’re a growing, remote team that regularly gets together in person, guided by three values: Reliability, Innovation and Commitment. Our senior engineers mentor the next generation, and we stay with clients from kickoff to commissioning.

The Role Our protection and control projects need a lead engineer who personally develops and validates relay settings.

As our Lead Relay Settings Engineer, you'll own protective relay coordination, line and station protection settings, client discussions and technical QA/QC for utility and renewable energy projects, while coaching other engineers.

What You'll Do

Engineer and validate protection

• Personally develop, calculate and review relay settings, protection coordination plots, setting files and technical reports.
• Apply transmission line schemes including 87L, POTT, DCB, 21P/21G and 67N, and evaluate 87T, REF, 50/51 and station protection as applicable.
• Review one-lines, CT/PT circuits, protection schematics, relay logic, and bus, feeder and capacitor bank protection.

Execute and assure quality

• Configure and review protection platforms from SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB/Hitachi or comparable manufacturers.
• Verify fault models, coordination assumptions, client design standards and settings packages.
• Lead QA/QC, resolve technical issues and coordinate engineering inputs across concurrent projects.

Lead clients and team

• Present settings approaches and engineering decisions to utilities, renewable developers and clients.
• Mentor engineers and guide technical work while partnering with project managers on scope, schedule and risk.
• Support proposals, technical reviews and constructible solutions through project delivery.

What You Bring

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license.
• Recent, personal ownership of relay settings for utility and renewable (solar, wind or BESS) projects.
• Working command of line protection schemes (87L, POTT, DCB, 21/67) and transformer and station functions (87T, REF, 50/51 and backup protection).
• Hands-on experience with SEL, GE, Siemens or ABB/Hitachi protection relay platforms.
• Hands-on experience with coordination and fault analysis tools such as ASPEN OneLiner, CAPE, ETAP or SKM.
• Ability to review protection schematics, mentor engineers, perform QA/QC independently and lead client discussions.

Nice to have

• About 8+ years of relevant relay and protection engineering experience.
• Engineering consulting experience and utility interconnection work in ISO/RTO markets.
• Familiarity with IEEE, ANSI, NFPA, NEC and applicable NERC standards.

Tools you'll use SEL, GE, Siemens and ABB/Hitachi relays; ASPEN OneLiner, CAPE, ETAP, SKM or comparable.

Don't check every box? If you meet most of the requirements and this role excites you, we encourage you to apply.

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: You've learned INS's settings standards and QA/QC process, reviewed the active relay settings packages and coordination studies with the team, and gotten to know the utility and client design standards that apply to them.
• 60 days: You're personally developing and checking relay settings files and coordination plots on live utility and renewable projects, and you're the go-to reviewer for the schemes you've taken on.
• 90 days: You have technical command of active relay settings packages and the relevant relay schemes, and you're leading coordination reviews and presenting settings approaches to clients and utilities.
• 6 months: You own settings deliverables and lead independent reviews across multiple client projects.
• 12 months: You're a trusted settings expert, coaching a repeatable, high-quality team review process.

Where You'll Work This is a remote role based in the United States. You'll collaborate with INS engineering and client teams across locations, with occasional project- and client-dependent travel.

Life at INS We hire good people, give them the tools and support they need, and trust them to do great work, with no micromanagement. Your ideas are heard and your contributions are recognized. We work remotely and make time to reconnect in person at team gatherings, where families are welcome too. You'll work alongside experienced Ph.D. and P.E. engineers who invest in mentorship, training and knowledge-sharing, and as INS grows, there's real room to grow with the company.

Compensation Annual bonus opportunities may be available, subject to plan terms. The final offer will depend on your experience, skills and location.

Benefits

• Medical. Nationwide Core Value plan, administered by Allied Benefit Systems and HSA-eligible; INS pays 70% of your medical premium at every coverage level and you pay 30%.

• Care support. Pharmacy benefits, virtual urgent care and counseling, joint care, caregiver support and cancer coaching.

• Extra protection. Dental, vision, group life/AD&D, and short- and long-term disability through UnitedHealthcare.

• 401(k). Put in 5%, INS adds 4% (100% of the first 3% plus 50% of the next 2%). You’re automatically enrolled at 6% unless you choose otherwise; the safe-harbor match is 100% vested immediately, with pre-tax and Roth options.

• Time away. Paid time off, paid holidays and paid parental leave.

• Growth. Training and approved certification reimbursement may be available, depending on your role.

• Rewards & flexibility. Commission opportunity and remote work, by position and client needs.

Accommodations

INS Engineering is committed to an accessible, inclusive hiring process. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, for example because of a disability, religious belief or pregnancy, please contact talent@ins-engineering.com. We’ll work with you to find an arrangement that works.

Equal Opportunity

INS Engineering is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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