Senior Substation Engineer
Location: Remote
Seeking several Senior and Principal Substation Engineers to work with a leading EPC offering challenging projects to keep you engaged, work/life balance, the ability to work with a talented team that loves what they do along with leadership that appreciates a job well done.
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Seeking an Electrical Engineer/Substation Engineer to provide engineering support for the design of substation facilities for voltages up to and including 765 kV. This includes new substations and switchyards, modifications, additions and upgrades to existing facilities.
Substation physical design including overall engineering and analysis for new switchyards and substations, additions and modifications
- Provide EPC engineering and design deliverables including preparation of engineering drawings, layout and general arrangement of general equipment and structures for high voltage (HV) switchyards or substation.
- Develop engineering specifications.
- Drawings include site plans, plan and elevation views, grounding, conduit, lighting, lightning protection and shielding, control building arrangements and details, AC station service, DC systems and Bills of Material.
- Perform auxiliary electrical power system studies including load flow, short circuit, voltage drop, protection and coordination, ampacity, and battery sizing studies.
- Perform substation grounding calculations and studies, lightning protection and insulation coordination, lighting, bus calculations, transformer and bus sizing calculations, fault calculations, and AC and DC auxiliary system sizing calculations.
- Perform proposal preparation, proposal estimates, and provide input to scope documents and client presentations
- Supervise/coordinate other engineers of equal and lesser experience to successfully deliver a project. Provides technical direction to subordinate team members.
- Perform the function of a team leader that is capable of solving complex issues and act as a lead engineer responsible for the quality of the deliverables
- Ability to travel to job sites to perform site walkdown
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering plu 8+ years of experience in substation engineering
- A sound knowledge of the fundamental requirements of the electrical engineering, and the basic requirements of other engineering fields
- A sound knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements
- Competent use of electrical engineering specific software
- Experience working in project leadership role
- Experience in estimating project costs and writing proposal content
