Lead Substation Protection & Control Engineer

Lead Substation Protection & Control Engineer

GAI is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Substation Protection & Control Engineer to oversee the design, development, and implementation of protection and control systems for high-voltage substations. This role will serve as a technical leader within the engineering team, ensuring that all protection and control designs meet regulatory standards, project requirements, and industry best practices. We value work-life balance and offer flexibility – this position can be performed in a hybrid capacity in these locations:
Overland Park, KS, Pittsburgh, PA, Lisle, IL, Orlando, FL, or in a fully remote capacity.

Job duties include:

• Leading the engineering design and review of protection and control systems for transmission and distribution substations (typically 69kV to 500kV).
• Developing and approving protection schemes including one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, control schematics, and wiring diagrams.
• Integrating protection and control drawings to interface with the physical layout and design of substations.
• Developing control and relay panel layouts including assembling the specifications.
• Developing design specifications including the overall bill of materials.
• Designing and sizing of auxiliary systems including AC/DC load centers as well as batteries and chargers.
• Designing and sizing of conduit, cable, and backup generators.
• Traveling to other offices and meeting with clients and attending project-specific meetings.
• Traveling to substations for scoping site visits.
• Reviewing junior engineer's designs, verifying they meet client standards and specifications, and identifying gaps in client's protection.
• Documenting QA/QC reviews, maintaining record documents, and communicating information to the team.
• Leading tasks on multiple projects in accordance with GAI's high standards of project management.

General characteristics include:

• Applies broad knowledge of principles and practices in a specific practice area.
• Independently evaluates, selects, and adapts standard techniques, procedures, and criteria.
• Leads tasks and projects of moderately complex scopes.
• Develops plans, specifications, and other project documents.
• Selects appropriate principles of engineering economics, and probability and statistics to analyze risk in a complex engineering problem.

Minimum years of experience:

• 6+ years of experience

Education:

• B.S. or M.S. Engineering

Certification/Licensure:

• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License

Benefits to working at GAI include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, dental, company paid Long Term Disability, and Short-Term Disability
• New paid Maternity/Paternity/Adoption program
• Generous Paid Time Off and 7 paid holidays
• 401k company match
• Tuition Reimbursement