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Substation Engineer / Illinois, USA
Added: | 2022-04-07 |
Location: | Illinois, USA |
Salary: | 85000 |
Duration: | Permanent |
Apjid | 3 |
Substation Engineer
Do you have experience with Substation Engineering Design? Are you experienced with Protection & Control? You may be a great fit for a fast-growing engineering firm in search of a Substation Engineer.
The position is based in Chicago, Illinois.
Salary- Based on Experience and Qualifications
Primary Function:
The Substation Engineer performs engineering work with a focus on substation engineering design including both physical and protection & control practices. Requires knowledge of substation systems from 34.5kV to 500kV with familiarity with basic principles related to the engineering design or high voltage substations.
Responsibilities:
Employee may be called upon to perform any or all of the following 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 engineer, 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
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree, from an accredited university
- A minimum of three (3) year's experience in hands-on substation engineering design
- Must be eligible for professional licensing
- Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
- Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI