Design Studies Engineer - Technical Director

About the role

Be involved in projects with our Electrical Studies, SCADA, and Protection (ESSP) and be a part of a growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their challenges.

Responsibilities

• Successful completion of assigned projects and for maintaining and improving client relationships.
• Technical competence in primary production roles as well as leadership competence in working with clients and mentoring and supervising team members assigned to projects.
• Manage and coordinate electrical infrastructure design plans for mid-level and complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Exhibit responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years of relevant post education experience as an electrical engineer executing deliverables for Electrical Studies projects in power generation, transmission, and distribution at a utility, industrial, or commercial scale.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or equivalent (multi-state preferred).
• Advanced proficiency with electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.
• Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
• Moderate travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering.
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment is highly desirable.
• Preference will be given to applicants with a proven history of completing similar projects in a consulting environment.
• Preference is given to applicants with working knowledge and experience in more than one of the three technical disciplines listed and with experience using the applicable software packages for those disciplines.
• Preference is also given to applicants with experience in mentoring others and in providing technical and commercial leadership in customer-focused engineering projects.
• Preference is also given to applicants with experience in customer focused engineering projects in the technical areas above.

Skills

• Familiarity, experience, or possibly even expertise with substation grounding, corona and electric and magnetic fields, insulation coordination (lightning, switching surge, and contamination performance), transient (time domain) simulation, power quality (harmonics, voltage flicker, over/under voltage, etc.), electromagnetic frequency interference, motor starting, AC interference (transmission line interaction with railroads and pipelines).
• Advanced proficiency with applicable software such as CDEGS, ATP-EMTP, PSCAD, WinIGS, TFlash, COMSOL, CAFEP, Polaris.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
• Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life.
• Retirement savings.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid vacation (or other personal time).
• Paid parental leave.
• Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Pay

Expected Salary (all locations): $139,800yr - $267,700yr

Schedule

Flexible schedule to meet business needs.