Protection and Control Substation Technical Lead
About The Position
Join Stantec's Substation Engineering team as a senior technical leader for complex substation projects, guiding work from pursuit through design, construction, and commissioning. This senior seller-doer role is for an experienced substation protection and control engineer who leads people, solves technical challenges, works directly with clients, and develops successful project approaches. The role leads multidisciplinary design teams in partnership with Project Managers to deliver safe, high-quality, constructible solutions that meet client expectations. It also leads technical development of proposals, scopes of work, engineering estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and project budgets. The position primarily involves an office or hybrid work environment, with collaboration across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed project teams. Field assignments may include visits to substations, construction sites, and other utility facilities. Periodic travel is required to support client meetings, pursuits, project development, site investigations, design reviews, construction, and commissioning.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
- Professional Engineer (PE) registration is required or must be obtainable as appropriate for the position.
- Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible substation engineering experience, including experience leading complex projects and design teams.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex substation engineering and design projects.
- Strong high-voltage substation engineering expertise and significant protection and control design experience, including P&C one-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, elementary and three-line diagrams, relay functional diagrams, trip and close circuits, breaker and disconnect switch control circuits, annunciator/alarm diagrams, panel layouts and elevations, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, input/output lists, SCADA point assignment lists, relay application and settings coordination, and bills of materials.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Experience developing engineering scopes of work, deliverable plans, labor estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and project budgets.
- Experience leading or making significant contributions to RFQ, RFP, and other competitive project pursuits.
- Strong understanding of substation constructability, brownfield interfaces, outage constraints, construction sequencing, and commissioning considerations.
- Knowledge of applicable substation codes, standards, and utility design requirements.
- Ability to identify technical and project risks, make sound engineering decisions, and communicate decisions effectively.
- Strong client-facing, leadership, presentation, and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to mentoring and developing engineers and designers.
- Ability to travel as needed to support clients, projects, site investigations, construction, and commissioning.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with new substations, expansions, retrofits, or brownfield modifications.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the overall technical leader for assigned substation projects and pursuits.
- Lead protection and control designs for AIS and GIS substations, including greenfield installations, relay replacements, expansions, and brownfield modifications, across applicable voltage classes through 765 kV.
- Lead multidisciplinary design teams across protection and control, substation physical, civil, structural, geotechnical, SCADA/telecom, and other disciplines.
- Establish project technical approaches, design bases, discipline interfaces, deliverable strategies, and execution plans.
- Lead design coordination meetings, technical workshops, interdisciplinary and constructability reviews, and resolution of complex technical issues.
- Ensure designs are coordinated, constructible, technically sound, and compliant with client requirements, codes, and industry standards.
- Provide technical leadership through planning, detailed design, procurement support, construction, testing, energization, and commissioning.
- Partner with Project Managers to align technical execution with scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and client expectations.
- Lead technical development of proposals and pursuits for new and existing clients.
- Translate client requirements into scopes of work, deliverable lists, work plans, schedules, and staffing strategies.
- Develop and validate engineering labor estimates and project budgets, including assumptions, exclusions, dependencies, and technical risks.
- Coordinate proposal inputs across disciplines and identify scope gaps and pursuit risks; develop assumptions and qualifications as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Project Managers, account leaders, and technical teams on proposal strategy, client presentations, and interviews.
- Support transition from pursuit to project execution so the delivery team understands commitments, assumptions, budgets, and client expectations.
- Represent the technical team in client meetings, design workshops, proposal interviews, and project reviews; build trusted client relationships.
- Mentor and develop engineers and designers, including emerging discipline and technical leaders.
- Support resource planning, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and development of the broader substation team.
- Promote a collaborative culture focused on safety, accountability, technical excellence, and client service.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
