We have a Substation Engineer position at an established national engineering firm that offers technical solutions to various sectors, including electric utility, power generation, industrial, renewable, and energy industries.
Primary Function:
As a Career Substation Physical Engineer, candidates will have the opportunity to work on projects for electric utilities at voltages from 12kV up to 500kV. Candidates will be expected to use knowledge of digital logic design, and AC and DC circuits to design substation electrical projects.
Duties & Responsibilities
Collaborate with the team to design and draw project documents, create wiring diagrams, generate bills of materials, and mark up as-built drawings with minimal supervision.
Perform Engineering support tasks such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit calculations with minimal supervision.
Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and load flow and short circuit studies.
Communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineers, customer representatives, and others as needed.
What Sets You Apart
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degrees, from an accredited university.
Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 2 years of experience in substation engineering design.
Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry
Experience in the application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above
Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems
Relay coordination experience is a plus
Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI