Senior Engineer - Protection & Control
Avangrid
Kirkwood, NYJob$96–121K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today
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The Senior Engineer - Protection & Control designs and configures automation, data collection, protection, and control equipment subsystems for electric delivery infrastructure. The role supports project delivery through relay settings and coordination analysis, contractor leadership, disturbance-event analysis, NERC compliance, and review of customer and distributed energy resource interconnections. It also represents the company on regional and national committees.
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Senior Engineer - Protection & Control Reports to: Supervisor - Protection & Control Location: In Office, (5 Days) Kirkwood NY The base salary range for this position is dependent upon experience and location, ranging from:
- $96,400 - $120,500
What We Offer:
- Competitive benefits and growth opportunities
- Generous performance‑based bonuses
- 12% 401(k) match
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Professional development and clear career‑advancement pathways
For more information, please visit: Benefits - Avangrid
Job Summary
As part of AVANGRID's engineering team, you will be responsible for the design and configuration of automation, data collection, protection, and control equipment subsystems. You will work on our extensive electric delivery infrastructure, ensuring safe, timely, and cost-effective completion of projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform relay settings design and relay coordination analysis for electric transmission and substation protection systems in support of capital construction programs.
- Lead engineering contractors and consultants performing protection system settings for capital projects.
- Analyze disturbance event operations, ensuring protection schemes perform flawlessly. Develop and deliver clear, impactful fault analysis reports to management, highlighting corrective actions and valuable lessons learned.
- Lead NERC compliance programs applicable to substation assets and act as a subject matter expert during audits.
- Review of large customer interconnections and distributed energy resource interconnections to substations, transmission circuits and distribution circuits
- Represent AVANGRID on regional and national committees.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or technology.
- Registered Professional Engineer or eligibility for certification.
- Experience with ASPEN OneLiner, SEL & GE Relay Programming, IEC61850 Standard, and protection coordination analysis.
- Familiar with FERC, NERC, NPCC, and state regulations.
- Strong knowledge of power system analysis, protection fundamentals, and compliance standards.
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Company: NY STATE ELECTRIC & GAS CORP Mobility Information Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.
At Avangrid we provide fair and equal employment and advancement opportunities for all employees and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran who is unable to use our online tool to search for or to apply for jobs, you may request a reasonable accommodation by contacting our People and Organization department at [email protected].
Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.
Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee’s management.
Job Posting End Date: November-30-2026
How this job compares
Set against the 1,316 open Senior Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$96–121K/yr
- New York median$116–202K/yr68 salary ranges
- US median$110–200K/yr993 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $108K, is 32% below the New York median midpoint ($158K) — in the lowest quarter of Senior Engineer salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Senior Engineer jobs in New York and 1,316 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Senior Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,232 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 862 of the 1,316 open Senior Engineer jobs (66%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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