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
• Analyze systems including 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

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 (highly desirable)
• Prioritization of technical and commercial leadership in customer-focused engineering projects (preference given)
• Experience in mentoring others (preference given)
• Experience in customer-focused engineering projects in the technical areas above (preference given)

Skills

• Familiarity, experience, or expertise with substation grounding, corona and electric and magnetic fields, insulation coordination, transient (time domain) simulation, power quality, 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 including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• 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

Remote candidates will also be considered for Clarkston, WA, Portland, OR, San Diego, CA, Denver, CO, Salt Lake City, UT and Fort Worth, TX.