Senior Substation Engineer
Job in
Oakbrook Terrace, DuPage County, Illinois, USA
Listed on 2026-04-30
Listing for:
K&A Engineering
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-04-30
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Senior Substation Engineer
Role OverviewIn this role, you will work on challenging projects that impact the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people‑focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions are valued.
Responsibilities- Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti‑islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. The goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place.
- Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with client standards.
- Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects.
- Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes.
- Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings.
- Review/provide input to Customer’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects.
- Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items.
- Provide feedback to Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices.
- Ensure all as‑built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer.
- Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects.
- Review/design SCADA point indexes.
- Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects.
- Review/design protection settings and settings basis.
- Review/design IED Data Maps.
- Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation.
- Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.).
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background in utilities engineering disciplines.
- 6+ years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Proven experience in Substation Design, including general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, equipment cable trays, cable design, conduit fill calculations and rigid bus calculations.
- Professional level skills in Micro Station and AutoCAD.
- PE license requested.
$100,000–$130,000 annually
Benefits- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account
- 401(k) (Traditional and Roth with company match)
- Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
- Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO
- Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance
- Long‑Term and Short‑Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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