Senior Engineer, Substations - Protection & Control

Senior Engineer, Substations - Protection & Control

#498

United States

Forge ahead with WSB. WSB was founded on the understanding that culture drives results, and we've dedicated ourselves to the value of strong relationships, collaboration, and forward-thinking ideas. We've inspired each other to discover thoughtful and creative solutions that look beyond the needs of today to the opportunities of tomorrow.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Substation Protection & Control Engineer with a strong background in utility substation protection, control, automation, and SCADA design. This individual will execute, lead, and provide technical oversight for substation engineering and consulting services across the United States while coordinating with project managers, discipline leads, engineers, designers, and drafters. The role is responsible for successful delivery from conceptual design through IFC, construction support, testing, commissioning, and record drawings.

The Senior Substation Protection & Control Engineer will develop and review protection and control designs including one-line and three-line diagrams, AC and DC schematics, protection logic, panel and control enclosure arrangements, equipment and relay wiring, communications and SCADA interfaces, cable schedules, calculations, settings coordination inputs, equipment specifications, and construction packages. The role also supports scope development, proposals, estimates, schedules, execution planning, quality reviews, client coordination, and technical mentoring.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership, improve engineering standards and processes, communicate directly with clients and external stakeholders, and maintain a strong focus on safety, quality, constructability, schedule, and budget. This position is primarily remote, and the candidate may be located anywhere within the United States. We invite you to forge ahead with us.

What you will do:

• Execute, lead, and oversee protection and control design for greenfield, brownfield, expansion, retrofit, and equipment replacement substation projects.
• Develop and review one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, AC and DC schematics, protection logic diagrams, tripping and closing circuits, interlocking, annunciation, and auxiliary control circuits.
• Develop and review relay and control panel layouts, control building arrangements, equipment wiring diagrams, elementary diagrams, termination drawings, cable schedules, and bills of material.
• Develop protection philosophies and design criteria for transmission, distribution, transformer, bus, breaker failure, capacitor bank, reactor, and other substation protection applications.
• Coordinate relay application, settings requirements, logic, communications, and interfaces with protection studies and relay settings engineers.
• Develop and review SCADA, RTU, HMI, communications, metering, sequence-of-events, and station automation design requirements.
• Develop and review station service AC and DC systems, including battery, battery charger, DC distribution, panel board, and control power loading requirements.
• Prepare and review equipment specifications and technical procurement packages for relays, control panels, control enclosures, batteries, chargers, RTUs, communications equipment, and related systems.
• Review vendor drawings and incorporate approved equipment, panel, and wiring information into the design.
• Coordinate P&C requirements with Physical, Civil/Structural, Telecommunications, Transmission Line, Distribution, and other supporting disciplines.
• Support project scope development, engineering estimates, schedules, budgets, proposals, and execution plans.
• Provide technical leadership through conceptual, 30%,…