Senior Electrical Engineer - Substation Design

The Opportunity

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Function as a technical specialist or supervisory role for Substation Design.
• May supervise engineering staff on projects of medium to high complexity. Substation design encompasses distribution, sub-transmission and transmission level voltage classes.
• Develop electrical design deliverables, including protection and control design (protective relays) and/or physical design.
• Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings.
• Interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors.
• QA/QC projects and mentor junior engineers.

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 11 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.

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

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and company's policies
• Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards
• Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines

Quality/Continuous Improvement:

• Independently applies knowledge and ensures compliance with company quality program
• Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality
• Provides guidance and direction to others
• Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts

Engineering Production:

• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects
• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
• Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles
• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements
• Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects
• Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project

Project Coordination:

• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects
• Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines

Client Focus:

• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on moderately complex projects
• Focuses on client's current needs and situations
• May offer other services to the client
• Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

• Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area
• Typically supports multiple projects on the very complex technical challenges
• Actively advances knowledge management of the enterprise and provides mentoring
• As a subject matter expert, has additional expertise in a technical area, participates in professional societies by presenting papers, participates on technical committees, and assists with code/standard authoring Is externally recognized in industry as an expert which enhances the Company brand

People Management - (supervision, career development, training, mentoring):

• Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions

Resource Management - (budgets, tools, processes, project support):

• Implements resource management strategy
• Manages engineering resources for small groups of a single discipline
• Resolves resource conflicts and identifies training needs

Administrative:

• Administrative responsibilities may include office administration Ensures policies, procedures, and processes are effectively implemented and communicated for workgroup
• Ensures adherence to corporate and division programs
• May approve timesheets and expense reports