Principal Protection & Control Engineer

Job overview

The Principal Protection & Control Engineer role is in-office for a candidate local to New York; the listing location is Rochester, NY, while the description identifies Binghamton, NY. The posting lists an annual pay range of $120,000–$135,000. K&A Power Group provides engineering, design, project management, and support services to power utility and industrial clients. The engineer leads protection, automation, and integration design reviews for capital projects, supporting safe and reliable utility systems through design oversight, commissioning support, and refinement of customer standards.

What you'll do

• Lead protection design for capital projects
• review existing protection schemes, relay settings, logic diagrams, and operational descriptions
• assess relay coordination
• review temporary-build settings and customer model changes
• support implementation, testing, and commissioning
• provide feedback on design standards
• oversee as-built documentation
• lead automation and integration design
• review or design SCADA point indexes, HMI settings, protection settings, IED data maps, and operational descriptions
• track project deliverables
• conduct constructability reviews.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

principal protection & control engineer

rochester ny

k&a engineering

$120,000–$135,000/year

power utilities

protection design

relay settings

substation design

automation and integration

scada

iec 61850

goose

professional engineer required

15+ years’ experience

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• FSA, HSA, and dependent care accounts
• 401(k) with company match
• paid parental leave
• paid holidays and flexible PTO
• tuition, parking, and transit reimbursement
• pet insurance
• disability and life insurance
• EAP
• relocation assistance.

Why this role

Requires a Professional Engineer license, IEC 61850/Goose experience, and 15 or more years of relay/protection settings engineering experience.

About the employer

K&A Engineering is hiring for this role. Industry: Engineering Services. Sector: 54.