Lead Protection and Controls Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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Monterra

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1 - 10 employees

🤝 B2B

🏗️ Construction

B2B • Software • Construction

Monterra is an all-in-one design and sales platform that enhances the efficiency of electrical project management. By streamlining the pre-construction process, Monterra allows builders and contractors to quickly design, estimate, and generate proposals with customizable catalogs. The platform accelerates field data collection, site surveys, and project estimations, enabling construction teams to work faster and smarter.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical authority and in-house subject matter expert on microgrid controls and protection • Work closely with the electrical engineering team and own controls and protection design across the firm • Write control philosophies and sequences of operation for data center and industrial sites combining utility service, BESS, gas turbines, reciprocating generators, solar, and critical loads • Define operating modes and transitions including grid-connected operation, islanding, resynchronization, black start, load shedding, generator dispatch, and ride-through • Specify microgrid controllers and BESS plant controllers • Integrate grid-forming and grid-following inverters with rotating generation • Define controls and communications architectures linking controllers, relays, generators, BESS, site SCADA/EPMS/BMS, and integrators • Coordinate controls interfaces with equipment vendors and integrators • Own protection philosophy, relay coordination, and relay settings for MV systems, generators, BESS, and PV • Specify relays, instrument transformers, transfer-trip schemes, and interlocks • Produce protection and control one-lines, three-lines, DC control schematics, and relay panel layouts • Define interconnection protection to IEEE 1547 and utility requirements and take designs through utility interconnection review • Respond to utility and AHJ comments and support construction RFIs and submittals • Hand off design packages and settings to commissioning integrators and support them remotely • Establish and improve controls and protection standards, design practices, templates, standard schemes, details libraries, and QC checklists • Define technical rules for AI agents, review and validate their engineering output, and collaborate with the AI platform team to improve workflows

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in power system protection and controls, including significant microgrid controls work for generation, BESS, or MV systems • Hands-on experience writing sequences of operation and implementing microgrid operating modes: islanding, resynchronization, black start, load shedding, and transitions between them • Experience with utility interconnection protection, including IEEE 1547 and direct transfer trip • Experience with protection relay settings and coordination for MV, generator, and BESS applications (SEL or similar), including protection for low fault current in inverter-dominated islanded systems • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including explaining engineering decisions to non-specialists and working closely with clients and teammates • Hands-on configuration of SEL RTAC or comparable automation controllers preferred but not required • Field commissioning experience with distributed energy resources, turbine systems, or BESS preferred but not required • Gas turbine or reciprocating generator controls experience preferred but not required • Grid-forming BESS integration experience preferred but not required • Working knowledge of IEC 61850 GOOSE, DNP3, and Modbus preferred but not required • Data center power and controls experience preferred but not required • Experience with fully off-grid or prime-power microgrids preferred but not required • Hands-on relay coordination studies in ETAP, SKM, ASPEN, or similar preferred but not required • Comfort with AI tools preferred but not required • PE licensure is required, as evidenced by the required application question asking which states the candidate is licensed in as a PE • Must indicate whether sponsorship will be required to work in the US

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful early-stage equity • Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Unlimited PTO • Remote-first work arrangement • Occasional travel for site visits, customer meetings, conferences, and team gatherings

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