Electrical Project Engineer - Substation QA/QC

About the role

As an Electrical Project Engineer, you may have the opportunity to function as a quality control/quality assurance engineer within the substation quality management group (QMG), performing QA/QC of substation design packages, including physical design, protective relaying/control with an emphasis on continuous improvement. You will collaborate with the substation design team.

Responsibilities

• Continues developing knowledge and may provide guidance and direction on design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and B&Veatch policies.
• Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines.
• Independently applies knowledge and complies with B&Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks.
• Maintains compliance with B&Veatch quality program.
• Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts.
• Prepares a variety of engineering deliverables for larger or multiple projects.
• Performs research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
• May oversee collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
• Prepares engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
• Prepares and manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Independently applies advanced engineering techniques and analysis problems and methods.
• Actively delegates appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff.
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
• Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for a project.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects.
• Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on high voltage substation projects.
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on high voltage substation projects.
• Provides support to business development or pursuit activities and may offer other services to clients.
• Recognized as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area.
• May design a complete project or support multiple projects on the complex technical challenges.
• Actively fosters knowledge management and provides mentoring.
• May develop and apply advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems.
• Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required.
• May participate in career planning, and learning and development.
• Actively mentors lower level professionals and identifies successors to train in the specifics of their role.
• May assist with resource management strategy.
• May have responsibility of engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline.
• May be accountable for some administrative responsibilities that include but aren't limited to: ensuring policies, procedures and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for work group; ensuring adherence to corporate and division programs; approving timesheets and expense reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Substation QA/QC Reviews – Quality Assurance/Quality Checks
• Substation design experience – Physical and/or Protection & Controls
• Experience coordinating and communicating with Clients, Multidisciplinary Leads and Project Managers
• Professional Engineer (PE) License
• Proficient with Bluebeam Revu and Microsoft Office Programs (such as Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)

Benefits

To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time. A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.