Role: Substation Physical Designer

Location: San Ramon, CA

Duration: Long Term

Job Summary:

The Substation Engineer works within a multi-discipline team to develop efficient and reliable design of electrical systems and components for Substation Facilities. This Engineer is accountable for developing substation electrical drawings in accordance with RFQ scope of work, ensuring constructability of design. This individual provides leadership, mentorship, and/or guidance to less experienced engineers within the department. This position is responsible for all phases of designing mid to high voltage electrical transmission, switching, and distribution substations (and stations) for the electric utility industry, permitting, and overseeing the construction of capital substation projects, and for establishing and maintaining substation material and construction standards.

Who You Are:

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited university

5+ years of experience engineering/designing substations

Experience with ETAP, WinIGS, IEEE 88/998

Experience using Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Bentley MicroStation and/or Bentley Substation software to develop 2D drawings or 3D models are a plus.

EIT Certification preferred (not required)

FE Certified

Duties and Responsibilities:

Deliver accurate designs of high voltage electrical substation components that meet industry and client standards and applicable codes.

Perform quality reviews of electrical engineering work for both peers/sub-contractors on assigned projects.

May act as lead Engineer and Engineer of Record for projects.

Design substation systems and components to include general arrangement, equipment, and electrical layout, grounding, bills of material, etc.

Prepare construction drawing packages for bids and review incoming submittals for alignment with design and constructability of methods.

May manage the development of project proposals, bid preparation, project schedules, etc. for assigned Substation projects.

Assist project team during construction on electrical substation issues.

Travel to client sites/field as necessary.

Substation Design: Perform duties associated with all phases of substation design work, including (but not limited to): station sighting, site preparation, physical and electrical facilities, electrical design, structural design, foundation design, and permitting, for station voltages through 138kV.