Engineer 3 - Physical Substation

About the role

Provide substation physical engineering, technical support, and supervision to a Transmission Substation engineering and design team for the purpose of delivering safe, cost-effective, and quality engineering and design services.

Responsibilities

• Engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis, and resolution of problems.
• Effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities.
• Thorough, timely, and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations, and sketches.
• Continuous improvement of job-related engineering, technical and professional knowledge, skills, and performance.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Support the company's goals and represent the company positively and professionally.
• Interact with customer’s internal engineers and technical personnel on a day-to-day basis.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with customers.
• Monitor deliverables, schedules, and present solutions to the client.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or University in Engineering (preferably Electrical Engineering).
• Required Engineering Degree awarded from a College of University that is accredited by ABET.
• Experience 5-7 Year(s) Experience as an Engineer with the electrical industry in the field of power delivery.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license or the ability to be licensed within a year.
• On-the-job Training As needed for the job and employee development.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, operational procedures, etc.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or the business community.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret spreadsheets.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Understanding of basic engineering theories and principles.
• Understanding of basic practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations.
• Ability to work alone or with limited supervision.
• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.

Complexity of Work

Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

Relationship Outside Work

Group Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact. Supervisory Responsibilities No direct reports, but mentors and provides leadership to junior engineers, designers, and engineers outside the discipline.