Senior Electrical Engineer – Protection & Control / Substation Engineer
Location: Remote – must have P.E. Licensure, Regrets, no NY or CA applicants please
Salary: up to $180k if all qualifiers are met
We provide full-service electrical, civil, and structural engineering services to support electric and gas utilities nationwide. We’re also fortunate to support wind farms and renewables; data centers; transmission systems; and university and industrial facilities.
Who You Are
- BS – Electrical Engineering
- Required professional engineer (PE) license
- 8+ years of experience in protection and control (P&C) engineering design, particularly in substation projects
- You have knowledge of the industry standards, codes, and best practices in protection and control (P&C) engineering.
- You have the ability to manage and execute complex projects with minimal supervision.
- You have a strong understanding of substation design principles, power systems, and protection relays and schemes (e.g., bus, transmission line, transformer protection).
- You’re proficient with business and engineering applications. Microsoft Office and AutoCAD or Microstation proficiency is a must.
- You’re a people person with the ability to collaborate with various disciplines and team members while also being able to develop effective protection strategies, ensuring that all designs adhere to industry standards, client specifications, and regulatory requirements.
What You’ll Do
- You’ll collaborate with a project team to develop design documents and drawings for substation protection and control (P&C) systems, including one-line diagrams, single line relay & metering diagrams, AC & DC schematic diagrams, bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups of project as-built drawings.
- You’ll apply extensive knowledge of protection relaying schemes, including bus, transmission line, and transformer protection, to design solutions for complex substation projects.
- You’ll design and implement protection schemes and controls, ensuring compliance with industry standards, regulations, and safety protocols. You’ll also perform detailed analysis of system configurations and relay settings.
- You’ll perform quality assurance (QA) design reviews for all protection and control (P&C) documents.
- You’ll support the commissioning and testing phases of protection and control systems to ensure proper functionality and performance.
- You’ll connect with people. You’ll communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineers, designers, and customer representatives.
- You’ll enjoy what you do. You’ll work with great people, learn, grow and have a good time doing it.
What we offer
- An excellent benefits package including 401K match and employee stock ownership, gym and transit subsidies, paid volunteer time off, parental leave, continuing education reimbursement, and much more.
- Flexible work scheduling in a fast-growing company.
- Colleagues that appreciate differences in people, perspectives, cultures, and ideas.
- The fruits of our employee-led committees focused on offering engaging social, wellness, and community service activities all year long.
- Starting salary is between $90,000 – $180,000 based on skills and qualifications, with the high end of the range limited to applicants based on relevant years of experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Our practices and employment decisions, including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, and compensation, shall not be based on any person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, disability, physical handicap, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship status or other protected group as defined by law.