Substation Engineer / Texas, USA

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 Dallas, Texas.

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) years' experience in hands-on substation engineering design
• Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
• Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI