Senior Electrical Engineer - Substation Design - 99860
Substation Design Engineer:
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.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Standards:
- Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and 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 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 assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required
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 responsibili