Design Engineer

Position: Substation Engineer

 Level: Graduate, mid-level, and senior roles

Focus: Engineering design for substations, including physical and protection & control practices. Requires knowledge of substation systems from 34.5kV to 500kV and basic principles of high-voltage substation engineering design.

Location: Lewisville, TX - Hybrid 3 days in office

 

Duties & Responsibilities

Employees may perform any or all of the following:

• Create design documents and drawings: Work within a project team to develop all project deliverables, including wiring diagrams from schematics, bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups to as-built drawings with minimal supervision.

• Perform engineering support tasks: Conduct calculations such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit with minimal supervision.

• Apply engineering software: Use tools for tasks like ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, load flow, and short circuit studies with minimal supervision.

• Review schedules: Monitor project timelines and collaborate with project engineers to keep projects on track.

• Apply standards: Adhere to NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI standards.

• Use document management: Properly utilize systems for project documentation.

• Apply corporate practices: Follow Primoris standard engineering procedures.

• Communicate and coordinate: Coordinate with project engineers, customer representatives, and others.

• Gain hands-on experience: Spend time at job sites for training in substation construction and design.

• Ensure quality: Take ownership of work accuracy and quality.

• Identify issues: Report potential problems and solutions to supervisors.

• Travel: Occasional short-term out-of-town travel for projects.

• Other duties: As assigned by management.

 

Minimum Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited university.

Required Experience

• Senior applicants must be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with ability to obtain licensure in multiple states or gain it within one year of hire.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Relays and Metering: Familiarity with electrical relays in the electric power utility industry; experience applying relays and metering in substations at 138kV and above.

• P&C Design Experience: Designing electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems; designing connection drawings and cabling.

• Physical Design Experience: Performing physical design for stations of varying voltage classes. Apply industry standards to produce and a safe and functional substation while value engineering for efficient and cost-effective construction.

• Studies: Interpret and apply the results of studies including grounding, lighting, lightning, short circuit, reactive power, TOV, harmonics and relay coordination. Ability to perform these studies is a plus.

• Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of AC/DC principles; three-phase power systems; per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components.

• Substation Knowledge: Understanding of substation components and functions; design documents and drawings needed for projects.

• Standards: Knowledge of NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI.

• Software: Proficiency in common word processing, spreadsheets, and email tools.

Soft Skills

• Effective communication with co-workers, vendors, and clients.

• Ability to work in a team environment.