Power Engineer, Physical Electrical

DLB Associates is a premier engineering and consulting firm specializing in innovative, mission-critical solutions across hyperscale data centers, advanced infrastructure, and high-performance building systems. With over four decades of expertise, we partner with some of the world’s most influential companies to design and optimize environments that demand precision, scalability, and resilience.

Power Engineer – Physical Electrical

Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States

DLB recognizes salary ranges from jobboardsdo not necessarily reflect our pay  many instances we out-compete those ranges for well-qualified candidates.

DLB is expanding its physical electrical engineering services and is seeking a Power Engineer – Physical Electrical to support this practice. This role is responsible for the physical electrical design of medium- and high-voltage substations, switching stations, and utility-scale grid integration facilities across utility, renewable, data center, and industrial markets, from concept through construction and commissioning.

The Power Engineer – Physical Electrical will provide detailed design execution, technical quality, and client-facing support. This position is hands-on, focused on physical substation design including equipment layouts, general arrangements, grounding systems, cable and ductbank design, and construction drawing production.

The Power Engineer – Physical Electrical works with a high degree of independence on day-to-day work and receives general direction on new projects, tasks, or assignments. Will execute projects, tasks, or assignments of complex scope.

May coordinate activities of other personnel.

The Power Engineer – Physical Electrical will communicate and operate in line with organizational goals and values, as well as departmental objectives.

• Serve as an engineering contributor for substation and grid integration physical design, performing advanced engineering work with general oversight. Perform detailed physical electrical design for AIS and GIS substations, switching stations, BESS facilities, and customer-owned substation projects, ensuring compliance with customer requirements, utility requirements, industry standards, codes, and regulations
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (civil/structural, protection & control, project management) to integrate physical electrical designs into complete substation design packages
• Support technical scoping and design for BESS, microgrid, and I  interconnection physical facilities at the medium- and high-voltage level
• Contribute to engineering approaches, design standards, and technical risk management.
• Support project delivery as engineer of record (or in support of EOR), contributing to technical accuracy, constructability, and code compliance.
• Apply and help maintain engineering standards, design criteria, and quality expectations for physical electrical work.

Independently perform detailed physical electrical design for:

• Substation general arrangement plans, plan views, elevations, and equipment layout drawings for AIS and GIS facilities.
• Bus configurations, including ring bus, breaker-and-a-half, and double bus, and associated bus structure design.
• Grounding grid design and grounding calculations in accordance with IEEE 80.
• Lightning shielding design in accordance with IEEE 998.
• Below-grade design, including cable routing, conduit and ductbank design, pull tension calculations, and cable schedules.
• Above-grade design, including…