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Switchgear Magazine

Substation Design Electrical Engineer

Switchgear Magazine, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215

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Engineers, Lead Engineers, and Supervisors (Dallas, Houston, Austin TEXAS, Chicago Illinois, Lake Charles Louisiana, Wisconsin)

Duties & Responsibilities

Work within a project team to create all design documents and drawings for a project, including creating wiring diagrams from schematics, generating bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups of project as-built drawings with minimal supervision

Perform Engineering support tasks such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit calculations with minimal supervision

Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and load flow and short circuit studies with minimal supervision

Review project Schedules and work with a project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule

Apply engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI

Properly use the document management system

Apply corporate standard engineering practices

Communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineer, customer representatives, and others as needed

Spend time at job sites to gain hands‑on knowledge and additional training in substation construction and design

Take personal responsibility for the quality and accuracy of his/her work

Bring potential project‑related problems and possible solutions to the attention of the responsible party

Travel out of town for short periods of time as required by projects and assignments

Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications / Experience

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degrees, from an accredited university.

Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 3 years experience in substation engineering design with more senior level positions requiring 7 years or more in hands on engineering design. Senior applicants (10-15 years) must be a licensed professional engineer with ability to become licensed in multiple states or must be able to gain license within one year of hire.

Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry

Experience in application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above

Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems

Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling

Relay coordination experience is a plus

Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals

Knowledge and understanding of three phase power systems

Knowledge and understanding of per‑unit mathematics and symmetrical components

Knowledge and understanding of substation components and their functions

Knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a projects

Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI

Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and e‑mail software

Communicating effectively with co‑workers, vendors, clients, etc.

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