Senior Project Engineer

Senior Lead Project Engineer

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You'll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:
Electrical Engineering Manager

Your role and responsibilities

ABB is seeking a Senior Lead Project Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and oversee the successful execution of multidisciplinary electrical engineering projects from concept through commissioning. As the Lead Electrical Engineer on assigned projects, you will coordinate engineering activities across multiple disciplines, ensure technical excellence, manage engineering scope and deliverables, and serve as the primary technical interface for customers, project managers, and internal stakeholders.

The work model for the role is:
Hybrid

This role is contributing to the Automation Energy Industries division in Houston, TX.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Lead and support engineering projects, ensuring successful delivery through effective technical leadership, coordination, and adherence to project scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
• Develop, review, and approve electrical engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with project requirements, applicable codes, industry standards, and ABB engineering practices.
• Lead customer technical meetings, design reviews, and interdisciplinary engineering coordination meetings.
• Manage engineering scope, technical risks, engineering schedules, and change management activities in collaboration with Project Management.
• Support factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, and startup activities as required.
• Coordinate and provide technical oversight of multi-discipline vendors and subcontractors, ensuring alignment with project requirements, engineering standards, schedules, and overall project objectives.
• Support proposal development, engineering estimates, technical risk assessments, and engineering execution planning.

Additional tasks with varying scope depending on experience level:

• Perform and review power system studies (e.g., short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, load flow) to support protection design and validate system performance.
• Create and review substation and electrical building integration design packages and follow those projects from the conceptual stage to construction completion.
• Develop and review protection and control system designs, including relay selection, protection philosophies, settings development, configuration, and coordination.
• Design/review/implementation of power management systems (PMS).

Our team dynamics

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Extensive experience in at least two of the following technical areas:
• Power system studies and associated software (ETAP, SKM, PSCAD, Easy Power)
• Substation and electrical building design.
• Protection and control system design, including relay applications, settings, and integration.
• Industrial automation systems, including power management systems (PMS), SCADA, or distributed control systems (DCS).
• Strong understanding of relevant industry standards and codes (IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ANSI, IEC, or equivalent as applicable).
• Demonstrated experience serving as the Lead Electrical Engineer or Engineering Lead on complex engineering projects.
• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical execution across multiple concurrent projects.
• Excellent technical problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance within the team.
• Profe…