Substation Project Engineer

Overview

Design and manage high-voltage substation projects, covering physical layouts and protection/control systems.

Key Responsibilities

• project coordination
• design coordination
• protection design
• electrical calculations
• equipment specifications
• qa/qc

Tasks

-Effectively communicate and coordinate project activities with manager, clients, and others as needed -Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and ensure that schedules and budgets are met -Coordinate design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.) -Conduct QA/QC on the work of other Engineers, Project Coordinators or Designers, or BIM Technicians as needed -Works independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers. -Understanding, developing, and delivering protection and control designs including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring -Prepare electrical calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.) -Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing

Requirements

• 3+ years
• pe license
• electrical eng
• substation design
• autocad
• revit

What You Bring

-A minimum of 3 years experience in project execution within the Power Delivery, Substation Sector -Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license -Previous experience with an engineering consulting firm -Previous experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector. -Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering -Understanding, developing, and delivering physical substation designs 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 -Bachelor's degree in Engineering -Foundational expertise in high voltage substation design, including both physical and protection & controls design -Computer skills in Microsoft Office as well as standard Power Market Sector design software. (examples include PLS CAD, AutoCAD, Plant 3D, AutoPipe, and Revit)

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