Sr Electrical Engineer - Substation

Description

The Senior Engineer, Asset Management will develop engineering solutions to complex issues, serve as a subject matter expert on substation equipment issues to groups within and outside of Asset Management, and provide mentoring and guidance to other engineers.

Senior Engineer will lead and oversee critical Asset Management driven projects as well as resolving urgent issues that place customers out of service or posing a significant impact to system reliability.

• Asset Strategy: Develop replacement strategies for protective relay and control assets within Transmission and Distribution substations. Work closely with Protection Engineering to plan and scope upgrades of legacy relay and control panels and associated devices.
• Maintenance Planning: Manage maintenance and testing programs for protection system, automatic reclosing, and sudden pressure relay devices in compliance with NERC regulatory standards. Monitor, trend, prioritize, and provide technical support in the troubleshooting and corrective maintenance of substation protective devices. Prioritize work within projects and programs and work with Schedulers, Asset Management, and System Planning to coordinate job scopes. Identify opportunities for improving efficiencies in maintenance practices to reduce spend.
• Customer Excellence: Interface with industrial and commercial customers to plan, maintain, and upgrade equipment at customer substations.
• Storm Support: Support restoration activities associated with power outages due to storms. Other emergent work may require evening and overnight support throughout the length of the event.
• Work Management System: Update Work Management System (i.e., Maximo) accordingly as assets are installed, removed, replaced, including creation of work orders, assets, and job plans. Manage work order, requisition, and expense approvals within the Work Management System.
• Trouble Support: Lead the investigation, mitigation, repair, and communications throughout the duration of the restoration of urgent or emergent trouble events. Complete root cause analysis, as required, and recommend remediation action or actions working with Supply Chain, Workforce Development, and/or Engineering.
• Leadership: Mentor less experienced engineers in scope development, design, maintenance practice, and work management processes and decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university or college
• Experience with Doble RTS and Powerbase
• Experience working in electric utility substations
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience OR minimum of 7 years relevant work experience and Professional Engineer License
• Professional Engineer License (licensed in the state of PA preferred)
• Must possess strong technical writing and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE Standards
• Leadership experience

Benefits

Duquesne Light Holdings is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

Training + Development

Interview process

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