Substation Design Engineer (Multiple Levels)

**The Team**

Our Energy & Process business is committed to addressing the evolving infrastructure demands in power generation, storage, transmission, and distribution. We focus on ensuring the secure and dependable supply of electricity. We are dedicated to investing in renewable energy sources to contribute to a more sustainable future. Join our team, and you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative energy solutions to our clients.

**The Opportunity**

In this position, you will have the chance to:

- Serve as a technical specialist or assume a supervisory role in Substation Design.

- Oversee engineering personnel on projects with medium to high levels of complexity, covering distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission voltage classes.

- Develop electrical design deliverables, encompassing protection and control design (including protective relays) and/or physical design.

- Actively engage in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings.

- Interface directly with clients, suppliers, and subcontractors.

- Ensure quality assurance and quality control for projects and provide guidance to junior engineers.

This is a HYBRID position. Candidates must be willing to commute to one of our U.S. Regional Offices. For any candidates outside of a 50 mile radius from a regional office, remote work will be available. Exceptions can be made for more Senior hires.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Offer guidance and direction on department design guidelines, standards, systems, relevant engineering codes, and company policies proactively.

- Assist in the development, maintenance, and updates of engineering standards.

- Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines.

- Independently apply knowledge and ensure compliance with the company's quality program.

- Establish related processes and promote a culture that fosters quality.

- Provide guidance and direction to others.

- Support continuous improvement and change management efforts.

- Prepare a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or large-scale projects.

- Conduct complex research and provide recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.

- Oversee the collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering tasks.

- Prepare complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.

- Manage allocated budgets, schedules, and quality requirements.

- Develop and implement advanced engineering solutions for intricate problems.

- Review lower-level engineering work or assignments.

- Assume responsibility for leading production teams, coordinating multiple discipline activities, and serving as the responsible charge for projects.

- Establish work plans for specific projects.

- Actively coordinate with all internal and external team members on complex projects.

- Typically responsible for defining project schedules for a single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.

- Determine the identification of key client interests and drivers on projects.

- Communicate client interests and drivers to project team members and develop approaches to accommodate these concerns for moderately complex projects.

- Concentrate on current client needs and situations.

- May offer additional services to the client.

- Typically provide support to business development or pursuit activities.

- Serve as a technical specialist and possess the knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a specific practice area.

- Typically support multiple projects dealing with highly complex technical challenges.

- Actively promote knowledge management within the organization and provide mentoring.

- As a subject matter expert, possess additional expertise in a technical area, participate in professional societies by presenting papers, engage on technical committees, and assist with code/standard authoring.

- Be externally recognized in the industry as an expert, enhancing the company's brand.

- Oversee performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions typically.

- Manage engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline.

- Resolve resource conflicts and identify training needs.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Substation Design experience - Physical and/or Protection & Controls

- Professional Engineer (PE) License

- Quality Assurance and Quality Control of substation design projects

- Team/Project Lead Experience

- Written Communications

- Drive For Results

- Priority Setting

- Planning

- Delegation

- Directing Others

- Conflict Management

- Informing

- Listening

- Dealing with Ambiguity

- Building Effective Teams

- Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's Degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.

- Minimum of 10 years related work experience.

- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

**Certifications**

Most positions - depending on the nature of work performed as defined by the division - will typically require incumbents to have professional registration or licensure in their designated home office country, or be in active pursuit* of such registration

**Work Environment/Physical Demands**

- Typical office environment.

- May be subject to extreme cold (temperatures below 30 degrees for periods of more than one hour), extreme heat (temperatures above 90 degrees for periods of more than one hour), hazards (electrical currents, working on scaffold

**Competencies**

- Collaborates

- Communicates effectively

- Courage

- Directs work

- Instills trust

- Interpersonal savvy

- Organizational savvy

- Customer focus

- Decision quality