Substation Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Substation Engineer to join our Power Delivery team. This role involves physical substation, protection, and control engineering for high voltage electric utility projects ranging from small distribution equipment upgrades to large transmission substation projects globally.

Responsibilities

• Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, ensuring they are met
• Understand physical substation design including yard layouts, plans, sections, and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material
• Understand protection and control design including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring, and relay panel wiring
• Prepare calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.)
• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing
• Cook up design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.)
• Communicate and coordinate project activities with manager, clients, and others as needed
• Work independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers
• Perform other duties as needed

Requirements

• Preference given to local candidates
• Previous experience working for an A/E/C consulting firm
• Physical Design Experience or P&C experience with Substations
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Requires professional engineering license recognized by the licensing board for the location of the position offered

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office as well as standard Power Market Sector design software (examples include PLS CAD, AutoCAD, Plant 3D, AutoPipe, and Revit)
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus, and tuition reimbursement.