Company:
WIVERSE
Location: Overland Park
Closing Date: 16/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Electrical Engineer 5 - Substation Design- PE License Required
Contract to Hire
Candidate must be located within 50 miles of the Client's office locations:
Key Responsibilities
Skills
Education
Contract to Hire
Candidate must be located within 50 miles of the Client's office locations:
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Bloomington, MN
- Cary (Raleigh), NC
- Austin, TX
- College Station, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Houston TX
- Denver, CO
- Irvine, CA
- Walnut Creek CA
- Kansas City, MO/KS
- Orlando, FL
- Phoenix, AZ
- Tualatin, OR
- Chattanooga, TN
- Chicago, IL
- Coral Springs, FL
- Arlington, VA (potentially)
- Wilmington, DE (potentially)
Key Responsibilities
- May develop and maintain budgets and schedules for multiple substation design projects
- Perform high voltage substation (34.5kV-500kV) design, including physical design, protective relaying/control with an emphasis on continuous improvement
- Assists in developing, maintaining and updating engineering standards
- Provides technical guidance to others regarding projects and disciplines
- Support continuous improvement and change management efforts
- Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for larger or multiple 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
- Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments
- Responsible for one or more of the following: leading larger production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for a project
- Actively coordinates with other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
- Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings
- Interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors
- Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on moderately complex projects and may determine the key clients in some instances
- 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
- Serves as a technical specialist and has knowledge and skill set to provide consultation and guidance to project teams in a particular practice area
- Implements resource management strategy
Skills
- Must Have minimum 8 yrs' High Voltage Substation Design Experience; Preferably P&C Design but may consider candidates with Physical Design experience.
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control of high voltage substation design projects
- Technical experience preferred
- Research and recommendation development for equipment and/or materials selection.
- Preparation of one-lines, connection diagrams, panel elevations and protection & control schematics for power substation equipment.
- Preparation of auxiliary power equipment sizing calculations.
- Design wiring diagrams for protective relaying panels.
- Demonstrated experience with complex engineering calculations/studies related to substation projects such as: lightning protection, conduit fill, AC/DC station service loading, surge arrester sizing and voltage drop.
- Creating RTU control, status and analog point lists, raceway/cable schedules along with maintenance/signage and nameplates
- Prepararation of equipment arrangement, elevation drawings, grounding drawings and conduit plans for high voltage substations.
- Reviewing shop drawings, vendor quotes and perform bid evaluations.
- Developing construction release documents.
- Specific experience with 500KV - 13.8KV substations, varying voltage classes
- Experience with open air and/or GIS
- Experience with designing different types of bus configurations
- Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
Education
- PE License Required
- Requires a 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 8 years of high voltage substation design 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.
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