Lead Substation Physical Engineer
About The Position
Are you ready for your next career challenge? We are in search of a Lead Substation Physical Engineer to join our diverse and fast-paced Atlanta, GA organization. As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in leading and designing high voltage utility substation projects. O ur recognition as an industry leader is confirmed by the latest national rankings by Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranking Leidos within the Top 10 T&D Firms, and Top 10 Power Firms. REMOTE and HYBRID SUPPORT AVAILABLE! Candidates are able to support remotely but must be able relocate to or live within the United States. Must be willing to attend staff meetings and site visits in the Atlanta, GA metro area. If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading! Are you ready to make an impact? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career; share your resume with us today!
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Mechanical, civil or related degree with eight (8+) plus years of Substation physical design experience.
- Leadership experience in executing substation projects
- Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with the internal team and clients to meet project needs.
- Ability to lead bids and proposal effort for utility clients
- Ability to perform quality control checks on substation design projects.
- Act as a supervisor for one to six direct reports
- Ability to read and design substation physical drawings such as one line drawings, three line drawings, plan-section drawings, foundation, grounding drawings.
- Ability to read and design substation protection and control drawings such as one-line drawings, three line drawings, AC/DC schematic drawings and wiring design
- Ability to create and check bill of materials for substation physical
- Act as a key contributor to the develop substation physical application documents to define design scope, philosophies, methodologies, and criteria for medium and high-voltage substation projects.
- Experience with grounding studies/lightning protection and lighting studies.
- Ability to attend site visit at customer location
Nice To Haves
- Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) License
- Master’s degree in related field
- Experience with QA/QC
- Working knowledge of protection and control design
- Experience with BUS calculations.
- Experience with WinIGS or CDEGS
- Experience with SDS AutoCAD Electrical software.
Responsibilities
- Perform conceptual and detailed HV and MV Substation Physical/Electrical design for medium to large scale utilities/substations (including basic layout, electrical arrangement, one line, three line drawings, plan-section, grounding, AC and DC system drawings)
- Perform advanced engineering studies and calculations
- Perform Quality Control reviews on medium to large substation physical design projects
- Create and review bill of materials for substation physical projects
- Develop and review proposals, and scopes of work for substation physical projects
- Develop and provide advanced technical presentations to the team to assist with staff technical development
- Be involved in client interaction (including site visits) with a drive for customer satisfaction
- Provide leadership and mentorship to junior engineers
- Possess excellent communication skills and the ability to interact with the internal teams and clients to meet project objectives
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
