Substation Engineer
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DESCRIPTION
Performs engineering work with a focus on substation engineering design including both physical and protection & and control practices. Requires knowledge of substation systems from 34.5kV to 500kV with familiarity with basic principles related to the engineering design of high-voltage substations.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Work within a project team to create all design documents and drawings for a project, including creating wiring diagrams from schematics, generating bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups of project 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 with minimal supervision.
- Review project Schedules and work with a project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule.
- Apply engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI
- Properly use the document management system
- Apply corporate standard engineering practices.
- Supervise project activities.
- Communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineers, customer representatives, and others as needed.
- Spend time at job sites to gain hands-on knowledge and additional training in substation construction and design.
- Take personal responsibility for the quality and accuracy of his/her work.
- Bring potential project-related problems and possible solutions to the attention of the responsible party.\
- Travel out of town for short periods of time as required by projects and assignments.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or equivalent degrees, from an accredited university. Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 3 years’ experience in substation engineering design with more senior level positions requiring 7 years or more in hands-on engineering design. Senior applicants must be licensed professional engineers with the ability to become licensed in multiple states or must be able to gain a license within one year of hire.
- 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
- Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling
- Relay coordination experience is a plus.
- Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
- Knowledge and understanding of three-phase power systems.
- Knowledge and understanding of per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components.
- Knowledge and understanding of substation components and their functions.
- Knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a project.
- Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI
- Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and e-mail software
- Communicating effectively with co-workers, vendors, clients, etc.
- Ability to work in a team environment.