Lead Principal Engineer- Substation

About the role

This is a remote position reporting to Juno Beach once bimonthly. We are looking for a Lead Principal Engineer- Substation on behalf of our client. This is a 1-year contract assignment (W-2).

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and complete large-scale or several medium, complex, or long-term projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks, and changes.
• Conduct project meetings and take responsibility for project tracking and analysis. Identify issues, measure and validate results, and implement solutions to project challenges.
• Provide information to internal and external clients on moderate to complex issues.
• Provide technical oversight of external engineers of record (EORs) for all assigned substation projects to ensure compliance with required generation interconnection agreements, scope of work documents, project specifications, site-specific design requirements, IEEE, NESC, ASCE, and all other applicable industry codes and standards.
• Coordinate with other project stakeholders to develop and secure a substation site and support the engineering updates, data, and permits necessary to design and build the substation.
• Support Transmission Services during review of interconnection documentation, including system impact studies, facility studies, reactive and harmonic studies, and interconnection agreements.
• Assist ISC with substation project scope of work creation, review, approval, and preparation of shopping carts for engineering services and materials in a timely manner.
• Manage development of substation design documents, including physical drawings, electrical schematics, and civil drawings, through the 10%, 30%, 60%, 90%, and Issued for Construction (IFC) drawing sets.
• Manage the review of substation design drawings and documents.
• Work collaboratively with project engineering resources in various disciplines to determine project priorities, work plans, and lines of demarcation.
• Support the project schedule from the engineering standpoint.
• Support assigned project commissioning activities to meet corporate objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Master of Science or MBA Degree is helpful.
• 10+ years' experience in Substation design and engineering of High Voltage substation projects is highly helpful.
• Project Engineering and/or Project Management experience with a strong bias for action.
• PMP and/or P.E. is helpful. Not required to stamp engineering drawings.
• Travel required within North America.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Paid Vacations for Qualifying Positions

Pay

The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be $70.00/hr to $94.00/hr.