Senior Electrical Engineer (Substations)

About the role

Your Job As a Senior Electrical Engineer (Substations) at DEPCOM Power, you will support the engineering design and development of substation physical layout and design packages as part of utility-scale Solar and Battery Energy Storage Solution projects. You will be responsible for all aspects of physical substation engineering-including layout optimization, bus design, grounding, lightning protection, and associated studies and calculations.

Responsibilities

• Develop physical layout drawings, including plan, elevation, section, and detail views for high-voltage substations.
• Develop physical design criteria and specifications for substation structures, equipment foundations, bus work, conductor sizing, and cable trenching.
• Perform calculations: bus and cable ampacity, ground grid sizing, lightning protection layout, lighting, rigid bus, conduit/cable fill, conductor tensioning/sag, and clearance studies, harmonic resonance analysis, insulation coordination, transient over voltage studies, and emt studies.
• Assist in designing protection schemes for high-voltage substations including line, transformer, bus, breaker failure, and overcurrent protection.
• Develop one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and relay logic.
• Assist in specifying and programming protection relays (e.g., SEL, GE, ABB) in coordination with system studies.
• Assist in developing substation control systems including breaker control, status indication, alarms, and interlocking.
• Produce complete drawing packages from 30% conceptual design to Issued for Construction (IFC).
• Collaborate with civil, protection & controls, and SCADA teams for integrated substation design.
• Conduct lightning protection studies for substation environments.
• Support procurement by developing technical equipment specifications for transformers, breakers, and steel structures.
• Provide technical support to construction teams and respond to RFIs and field issues related to substation physical design.
• Participate in substation equipment factory acceptance testing (FAT) and field commissioning support as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
• Ability to travel up to 15% for site visits, design reviews, or FATs.

Qualifications

• Experience in Power Infrastructure Design.

Skills

• Working knowledge of SCADA and protection/control integration impacts on physical layout.
• Familiarity with grounding and lightning protection design tools (e.g., CDEGS, or WinIGS, or XGSLab).
• Experience in design-build or self-perform EPC substation projects.
• Knowledge of IEEE, NEC, and NESC standards related to substations.
• Experience with insulation coordination, load flow, short circuit, harmonic resonance, and transient overvoltage studies using either ETAP or SKM.
• Lightning protection design.
• Rigid bus calculations.
• Ledding design.
• Cable fill/conduit calculations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Pay

$110,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Schedule

N/A