Lead Substation Project Engineer

Lead Substation Project Engineer

Location:

Chicago, IL – occasional client travel. Candidates must be located in the United States.

• Experience in executing both substation physical and P&/C projects
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with the internal team and clients to meet project needs.
• Performing quality control checks on substation physical and P&/C design projects.
• Expected to read and design substation design drawings such as one-line drawings, three-line drawings, schematics, wiring, plan-section drawings, conduit and grounding drawings.
• Create and check bill of materials for substation physical and P&/C
• Create and check estimates and schedules for various projects
• Complete project lifecycle support from scoping to final design and energization.
• Working with client standards to implement design.
• Working with a designer/drafter to create the required drawings for each project.
• Providing engineering support during construction.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or related degree with six (6+) or more years of related substation design experience.
• Demonstrate Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with the internal team and clients to meet project needs.
• Ability to meet deadlines under pressure situations.
• Collaborator and leader who can work effectively in team environment.
• Self-starter who works independently with minimal direction.
• Strong analytical skills and proven problem solver in both team and independent environments.
• Experience supervising a team of engineers, designers, or drafters.
• Experience collaborating with EPC firms or other project developers.

• Engineer Intern (EI or EIT) professional certification.
• Professional Engineer (PE) License.
• Experience with bus calculation.
• Experience with relay settings.
• Experience with grounding studies/lightning protection and lighting studies.
• Experience with AC and DC calculations.
• Experience with WinIGS or CDEGS.
• Experience working on CAD tools.
• Master’s degree in related field.
• Field testing/commissioning experience.

Pay and benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.