Electrical Relay Testing Technician
Job Posting for Electrical Relay Testing Technician at ECHO Power Engineering
Job Summary: Echo Power has an opportunity for an Electrical Relay Testing Technician looking for career growth and new opportunities. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with a strong background in relay testing, inspection, and maintenance procedures. The Relay Testing Technician takes part in all aspects of a substation or power generation plant design or redesign, from conception to in-service.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for assessment, retrofit design and implementation of protective relay work for medium/high voltage substations and power plants, including:
- Protective settings, testing commissioning, development of commissioning documents, and performing field commissioning.
- Perform testing and maintenance of protective relays and associated equipment.
- Perform functional testing of relays and relay systems.
- Perform troubleshooting and repair of relays and associated equipment.
- Assist in development and execution of commissioning work plans required for projects.
- Prepare and maintain accurate records of testing and maintenance activities.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and company policies.
Skills and Abilities Required:
- Good working knowledge of all power generation and transmission (G&T) equipment, metering and controls, instrument transformer circuits, relays and relay settings/logic, generator excitation systems, transformers, G&T protective principles and functionality, and testing procedures for G&T equipment are required.
- Good working knowledge with instrumentation, process control, and transmitters, (pressure, flow, temperature).
- Experience with HART based transmitters, programmable logic controllers (PLC’s) fundamentals, wiring, and troubleshooting is desired.
- Experience with basic 480V motor controls.
- Experience installing and commissioning equipment in power plants and substations is preferred.
- Ability to complete as-builts for completed projects in AutoCAD.
- Must be a self-motivated technician who is equally comfortable in the field or at a computer.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interact with customers in a variety of settings
- Strong computer skills in all Microsoft platforms, and AutoCAD.
- Experience with various testing platform hardware and software is required.
- Strong work ethic.
- Must live in California and be willing to travel for design data gathering and on-site installation and testing (must be able to be onsite at least 50-75% of the time).
Education and Experience Requirements:
- High school diploma required
- 5 years recent and relevant experience with electrical testing, installation, and commissioning
- NICET certification preferred
Job Location: Northern California; preferably in the counties of Sonoma, Lake, or Napa.
Echo Power is a professional Engineering and Project Services company that operates in accordance with our core values of integrity, commitment to team, customer-focus, technical excellence, and optimism. We are a work-from-home company that has created a family-friendly culture that strives to serve our customers with excellence while creating opportunities for our people.
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