Electrical Systems Engineer

Overview

MPR Associates, Inc. (MPR), a thriving multi-discipline, specialty engineering services and consulting firm, is actively seeking a capable and motivated Electrical Systems Engineers to join our team. If you are seeking a unique, challenging, and rewarding career opportunity, MPR may be the right company for you.

 

Founded in 1964, MPR has a wide and growing client base in the fields of power and energy, federal services, and health and life sciences. We work throughout the United States as well as internationally. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, we also have offices in East Lyme, Connecticut, Burlington, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah. MPR makes challenging projects successful, delivering safe and reliable technical solutions across the entire project or product life-cycle to benefit our clients and society as a whole. We hire the best and brightest, which results in a high-performance culture built on trust and respect, making MPR an exceptional place to work.

General Job Description

MPR is seeking an Electrical Systems Engineers for full-time positions at our Alexandria, Virginia, East Lyme, Connecticut, Burlington, Massachusetts, and Salt Lake City, Utah Offices. MPR engineers bring their energy, passion, and natural curiosity to help solve unique and challenging problems for clients spanning the utility, commercial power, and federal services industries. Successful candidates will contribute to and lead projects involving design, specification, test, modification, and failure investigation of power systems and equipment. MPR engineers engage on a variety of projects associated with a diverse set of industries to include distributed energy resources, renewable energy sources, commercial nuclear, new nuclear (fusion/ fission), grid modernization, transmission and distribution facilities, and transmission system substations. 

 

MPR is an adaptive technical organization that identifies and responds to our clients’ needs while helping them frame their problems into workable technical and managerial solutions. For more than 60 years, MPR has been the organization to which our clients turn for specialty engineering solutions developed with integrity and technical excellence.

Duties/Responsibilities

The Electrical Systems Engineers will:

• Develop electrical designs for power systems including:
  • Technology selection of inverter-based resources to satisfy PCC/POI interconnection requirements.
  • Select and specify power systems equipment including breakers, power transformers, metal clad switchgear, circuit switchers, instrument transformers, and protective relays.
  • Create single line diagrams, interconnection diagrams, detailed drawings, specifications, and layouts of equipment.
• Validate designs that satisfy applicable codes and standards NFPA 70, IEEE, NERC, ISO, Local Utility and other applicable electrical safety and performance regulations.
• Perform electrical power system analysis, including load flow, short circuit, protective device coordination, and transient stability studies for power systems.
• Investigate electrical system problems, perform failure investigation and analyses, and evaluate alternatives to improve system performance and reliability and availability.
• Develop equipment procurement specifications for major capital equipment.
• Supervise design verification testing, equipment installation, and commissioning activities to ensure compliance with design requirements.
• Author detailed technical documents, including design reports, qualification documents, and submittals such as technical manuals, drawings, and design review evaluations.
• Work closely with the instrumentation and controls teams to deliver integrated project communication and protection systems consistent with current industry practices.
• Support and mentor junior engineers, fostering their development in electrical design and power systems.
• Communicate directly with clients, including engineering, management, and maintenance teams, to understand requirements and provide technical recommendations.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from an ABET-accredited university required.
• Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (MSEE) degree a plus.

Experience

• At least three (3) years of work experience in the field of electrical power systems.
• Strong analytical skills with a fundamental understanding of the underlying first principles of engineering.
• Familiarity with, or the ability to quickly become familiar with, industrial design standards, codes and regulations including but not limited to IEEE standards and NERC regulations.
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