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
• Maintain and improve client relationships
• Technical competence in primary production roles
• Leadership competence in working with clients and mentoring and supervising team members assigned to projects
• Electrical studies for utility and industrial/commercial clients
• Systems to be analyzed include conventional and renewable generation facilities, substations, and transmission and distribution systems
• Participate in the proposal writing process
• Enjoy customer contact to assist in developing new opportunities for WSP
• Manage with a strong conceptualization ability, strong interpersonal communication, and organizational skills including the capability to explain complex technical issues at a variety of levels to decision-makers and project teams

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
• Flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change
• Occasional 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 (preferred)
• Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a multi-project environment (preferred)
• Prioritizing experience in more than one of the three technical disciplines listed (preferred)
• Experience using the applicable software packages for those disciplines (preferred)
• Experience in mentoring others and in providing technical and commercial leadership in customer-focused engineering projects (preferred)
• Experience in customer focused engineering projects in the technical areas above (preferred)

Skills

• Familiarity, experience, or 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 electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues
• Advanced proficiency with applicable software packages such as CDEGS, ATP-EMTP, PSCAD, WinIGS, TFlash, COMSOL, CAFEP, Polaris

Benefits

• 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

N/A