Principal Substation Engineering

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The Principal Substation Engineer will serve as a senior technical leader within EPE’s growing utility Substation Engineering practice. This role will help establish and advance EPE’s physical substation engineering capabilities while providing technical leadership and hands‑on engineering support for complex utility substation projects.

A primary focus of this role will be establishing and maintaining a high standard of engineering quality. The Principal Engineer will help define EPE’s engineering standards, design practices, technical procedures, and QA/QC processes while providing senior technical review and oversight of project deliverables. As the practice grows, this individual will help make sure technical capabilities, processes, and quality controls scale with the organization.

The Principal Substation Engineer will lead and review physical substation engineering from conceptual engineering through detailed design, IFC packages, and construction support. This position requires deep electric utility substation experience and the ability to serve as a technical authority, develop engineers and designers, solve complex engineering challenges, and collaborate across EPE’s Protection & Control (P&C), transmission, distribution, civil/structural, and other technical capabilities.

• Serve as a senior technical authority for physical substation engineering and design.
• Lead the technical development and review of utility substation projects from conceptual engineering through detailed design, IFC packages, and construction support.
• Provide technical leadership for greenfield substations, brownfield modifications and expansions, transformer additions and replacements, equipment upgrades, and other utility capital projects.
• Lead and review engineering associated with general arrangements, equipment layouts, plans and elevations, bus design, grounding, lightning protection, station service, conduit and cable systems, equipment specifications, and associated calculations.
• Provide technical guidance for complex brownfield projects, including existing conditions, constructability, outages, sequencing, equipment interfaces, and operational constraints.
• Interpret and apply utility standards, engineering practices, and applicable NESC, IEEE, ANSI, NEC, and other relevant industry codes and standards.
• Resolve complex technical issues and provide sound engineering judgment to project teams and clients.

• Champion engineering quality across the Substation Engineering practice and establish clear expectations for technical rigor and accountability.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve engineering standards, design criteria, calculation methodologies, technical procedures, templates, checklists, and other tools supporting consistent project delivery.
• Establish and maintain scalable QA/QC processes with appropriate technical reviews throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define technical review requirements and approval processes for engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, and design packages.
• Perform and oversee senior‑level technical reviews of complex and high‑risk engineering deliverables.
• Identify technical and quality risks early and work with project teams to address issues before they impact project delivery.
• Evaluate quality issues and lessons learned to identify root causes and incorporate improvements into engineering processes, tools, standards, and training.
• Support development and implementation of utility‑specific standards and design requirements for key clients.

• Serve as Lead Engineer or Technical Lead for complex utility…