Lead Electrical Engineer - Substation Design
The Opportunity
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Function as a technical lead substation design engineer . 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 5 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
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control of substation design projects
- Professional Engineering (PE) License
- Written Communications
- Drive For Results
- Priority Setting
- Planning
- Delegation
- Directing Others
- Conflict Management
- Informing
- Listening
- Dealing with Ambiguity and Building Effective Teams
- Intermediate knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Standards:
- Continues to learn, remains current and applies independent knowledge and interpretation about departmental design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Customer policies and procedures relative to assigned tasks
Quality/Continuous Improvement:
- Consistently and independently applies knowledge and complies with Customer quality program relative to assigned tasks
- May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Customer quality program
- Provides guidance and direction to others from the same project and discipline
- Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts
Engineering Production:
- Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables
- Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
- Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles
- Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements
- Plans and conducts independent evaluation, selection and adaptation of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria
- Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments
- Is responsible for one or more of the following: overseeing collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work; leading smaller production teams; and serving as the responsible charge for a project
Project Coordination:
- Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
Client Focus:
- Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on less complex projects
- Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on less complex projects
- May provide support to business development or pursuit activities
Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:
- Recognized as a technical specialist by the division having in-depth knowledge of an engineering process and/or of technical aspects of an industry
- Designs a complete project of moderately complex scope within an assigned practice area(s)
People Management - (supervision, career development, training, mentoring):
- Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring,