Physical Substation Engineer 3

SUMMARY:

Provide substation physical engineering, technical support, and supervision to a Transmission Substation engineering and design team for the purpose of delivering safe, cost-effective, and quality engineering and design services. Provide technical competency and direction on complex engineering and technical problems for projects including a wide range of utility substation projects, battery energy storage systems and solar collector substations. This role includes both direct billable client work (project work) and project management support for projects. The incumbent is expected to lead discipline work for projects, perform responsible charge engineering duties, and manage project schedules and budgets. The incumbent will also support proposal development, project cost estimating as well as supporting business development efforts. 

 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under minimum supervision in the area of power delivery and grid analysis, the incumbent will provide:

 

 Engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis, and resolution of problems.

 

 Effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities.

 

 Thorough, timely, and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations, and sketches.

 

 Continuous improvement of job-related engineering, technical and professional knowledge, skills, and performance.

 

 Effective oral and written communication skills.

 

 Should be able to understand and create substation physical arrangement drawing packages for construction.

 

 Support the company's goals and represent the company positively and professionally.

 

 Interact with customer’s internal engineers and technical personnel on a day-to-day basis.

 

 Develop and maintain professional relationships with customers.

 

 Monitor deliverables, schedules, and present solutions to the client.

 

 Perform otherduties as assigned by management.

 

 

 

COMPLEXITY OF WORK: 

Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

 

RELATIONSHIP OUTSIDE WORK GROUP:

Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact.

 

 

 

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

No direct reports, but mentors and provides leadership to junior engineers, designers, and engineers outside the discipline.

 

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listedbelow are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enableindividuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

 

REGULAR ATTENDANCE is required.

 

 

EDUCATION and/orEXPERIENCE 

 

Required A Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or University in Engineering (preferably Electrical Engineering).

 

Required Engineering Degree awarded from a College of University that is accredited by ABET.

 

 

Experience

 

5-7  Year(s) Experience as an Engineer with the electrical industry in the field of power delivery.

 

 

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

Professional Engineering (PE) license or the ability to be licensed within a year.

 

 

ON-THE-JOB TRAINING: 

As needed for the job and employee development.

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS: 

 

A. Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, operational procedures, etc.

 

B. Ability to write simple correspondence.

 

C. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or the business community

 

 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: 

 

A. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret spread sheets.

 

B. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.

 

C. Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent and to draw and interpret spreadsheets

 

 

REASONING ABILITY:

A. Ab