Lead Substation Electrical Engineer

About This Role

Provide engineering support for the design of 69kV and above substation facilities within the Power Networks team. This role involves comprehensive design, analysis, and quality assurance for new and modified switchyards and substations.

Responsibilities

• Perform substation physical design including overall engineering and analysis for new switchyards and substations, additions and modifications.
• Prepare specifications and provide procurement support.
• Prepare engineering drawings including layout and general arrangements for major equipment and structures.
• Perform auxiliary electrical power system studies including load flow, short circuit, voltage drop, protection and coordination, ampacity, and battery sizing studies.
• Perform substation grounding calculations and studies, lightning protection, insulation coordination, lighting, bus calculations, transformer and bus sizing calculations, fault calculations, and AC and DC auxiliary system sizing calculations.
• Perform proposal preparation, proposal estimates, and provide input to scope documents and client presentations.
• Supervise/coordinate other engineers of equal and lesser experience to successfully deliver a project.
• Responsible for the quality assurance of the documents to applicable Worley and client standards.
• Perform independent audits and reviews of technical work.
• Interface with other departmental staff, project management, and with outside customers.

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in substation design
• Supervisory experience
• Professional Engineer (PE) license in the United States
• Experience with power system modeling and analysis tools (e.g., ETAP, CYME, SKM)
• Sound knowledge of fundamental electrical engineering requirements
• Knowledge of applicable local and international standards and regulatory requirements
• Competent use of electrical engineering specific software
• Competent use of MS Office Suite
• Experience working in a project leadership role
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
• 12 or more years of experience in substation design including supervisory experience.

Skills

* Required skills