Substation Physical and Protection and Controls Staff Engineer
Ampirical · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$130k–$185k/yrInternship
Your Role
Substation Physical and Protection and Controls Staff Engineer
What You’ll Do
- Physical Design:
- Lead the development of substation electrical design packages including general arrangement, equipment layout, grounding, conduit, bus schemes, shielding, and lighting.
- Perform quality reviews of physical design packages to ensure compliance with industry and client standards.
- Prepare scopes of work, estimates, and construction drawing packages for bids.
- Support field teams during construction and review submittals for design alignment.
- Interface with clients, vendors, and internal teams to ensure project alignment and constructability.
- Protection & Control:
- Identify appropriate protection and control schemes for transmission and distribution substations (69kV–500kV).
- Select proper protection devices for substation equipment.
- Perform quality checks for relay protection drawing packages including wiring diagrams, schematics, protection panels, one-line, and three-line diagrams.
- Support and review load calculations for panels, battery systems, voltage drop, and other substation components.
- Assist substation field personnel and conduct field pre-inspections for turnkey projects involving protection panels, breakers, transformers, SCADA, and related equipment.
- Ensure adherence to customer standards and industry regulations related to relay protection.
- General & Leadership:
- Act as Engineer of Record and provide backup support for design supervisors as needed.
- Mentor junior engineers and deliver technical training sessions.
- May manage the development of project proposals, bid preparation, and project schedules for assigned substation projects.
- Represent Ampirical at technical conferences and industry committees (e.g., IEEE).
What You Bring
- Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited university (preferred emphasis in Power Systems)
- 10 years of experience - Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
- 12 + years of experience without a PE
- Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in substation design, including both physical and protection & control disciplines.
- Strong knowledge of SCADA, automation, settings, configuration, testing, commissioning, and protection & control engineering concepts.
- Familiarity with NERC/FERC, IEEE standards, and tools such as ETAP, WinIGS, IEEE 80/998.
- Experience with AutoCAD, Inventor, Bentley MicroStation/Substation software is a plus.
- Proven industry involvement (e.g., IEEE committees, conference presentations).
- Engineering supervisory experience preferred.
- Ability to travel to meet with clients and attend technical conferences.