Substation Engineer; Entry Senior, or Principal

Position: Substation Engineer (Entry, Staff, Senior, or Principal)
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The job summary below and responsibilities reflect the entry engineer level role. The successfully chosen candidate will be placed at a level that is commensurate with their skills and experience as different skills and/or experience will be required at the staff, and senior engineer levels.

A Substation Design Engineer is responsible for the planning, design, and delivery of electric transmission and distribution substation projects, developing safe, reliable, and cost-effective engineering solutions while ensuring compliance with company standards, industry codes, and regulatory requirements. This role includes creating physical and/or protection and control designs for new substations and modifications to existing facilities, performing engineering analyses to validate design assumptions, and applying established design criteria to maintain consistency and safety.

The engineer collaborates closely with cross-functional teams-including civil, structural, protection and control, construction, and operations-to integrate complete and constructable solutions, while reviewing and approving drawings, specifications, and material requirements to support project execution. Additionally, the role involves managing project deliverables, schedules, and technical scope, supporting construction by resolving field issues and design conflicts, and evaluating trade-offs to deliver practical, cost-effective solutions that balance engineering standards, risk, and constructability.

Position Summary

This is an entry level position designed to develop technical expertise in a particular area of specialty. Performs work that involves conventional types of plans, investigations, surveys, structures or equipment with relatively few complex features for which there are precedents. Activities are of limited scope requiring knowledge of principles and techniques commonly employed in the specific narrow area of assignments. May lead small-medium, non-critical projects and/or provide field oversight of critical projects under direction of higher level engineer or supervisor.

Work is reviewed for soundness of technical judgment, overall adequacy and accuracy. As proficiency is gained, may work on portions of larger projects. Works under supervision and follows established procedures. May supervise or coordinate the work of interns, drafters, craft personnel, technicians and/or others.

Essential Responsibilities

* Uses and applies technical standards, principles, theories, concepts, and techniques to perform activities/assignments of limited scope.

* Supports the development of technical documentation (including but not limited to designs, testing, calculations, reports, standards, etc.) Utilizes and may assist with the development of procedures.

* Provides ongoing technical support for project activities within areas such as Operations, Maintenance, Testing/diagnostics, Regulatory, etc. May provide field engineering oversight for activities such as commissioning, testing, inspections etc. under direct supervision.

* Coordinates/leads projects or portions of projects (including phases such as research, design, equipment selection, procurement support, installation and commissioning), under the direction of a higher level engineer or supervisor.

* Under the direction of a higher level engineer/supervisor, supports bid/evaluation processes by performing basic analysis and calculations on existing documentation and materials that support the preparation of bid documents. In completing segments of technical evaluations for proposals may need to effectively communicate with other business areas of the company following appropriate processes.

* Effectively exchanges information in all formats, on matters having a wide range of importance and complexity both inter-organizationally and with outside customer/vendors.

* May coordinate the work of…