Electrical Senior Project Engineer - Substation

Affiliated Engineers, Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Affiliated Engineers, Inc. seeks a Senior Electrical Project Engineer - Substation Power Systems to lead the power design for complex projects and maintain strong client relationships.

You will guide the overall design, coordinate with partners, and mentor junior engineers across markets including energy, manufacturing, and higher education. The ideal candidate holds a BSEE from an ABET-accredited program, a PE license, 10+ years of MV/HV experience, and proficiency with power engineering

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing MV/HV power distribution, and/or generation, and/or transmission systems.
• BSEE from an ABET accredited program.
• Professional engineering registration required; ability to obtain licensure in various states as needed.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to mentor and lead teams and communicate with clients and project partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with clients and project partners; oversee the overall power systems design process on assigned projects.
• Lead the team in implementing design solutions across power, mission critical, manufacturing, automotive, and institutional markets.
• Coordinate with utilities for interconnects, standards compliance, and demarcation as needed.

Skills

Power systems design

Client relationships

Team leadership

Communication skills

Mentoring

Project coordination

Education

BSEE (ABET accredited)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Power systems modeling

Job description

As a Senior Electrical Project Engineer - Substation Power Systems, you will help us empower our clients to achieve energy-efficient building solutions, save global environments, and create a better, greener future for all.

Here’s why we need you:

In this role, you will build and maintains relationships with clients and project partners and will be responsible for the overall power systems design process on assigned project. AEI projects may require experience in some or all of the following expertise: substation design, utility coordination, relaying and protection, switchgear automation, dynamic load analysis, SCADA design, Vdc distribution, DER and renewable energy generation, battery energy storage systems, microgrids, and campus distribution for medium and high voltage. You will develop innovative and unique design solutions to align with project, client and project partner needs and leads the team in implementing solutions in the power, mission critical, manufacturing, automotive, higher ed, pharmaceutical, federal, and institutional markets.

Expertise of our most successful Senior Electrical Project Engineer:

• BSEE from an ABET accredited program.
• Professional engineering registration required. Ability to obtain licensure in various states as needed.
• 10+ years of experience designing MV or HV power distribution, and/or generation, and/or transmission systems.
• Proficiency in computer operation for power engineering design programs (power systems modeling, SCCAF).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team environment, including carrying out appropriate follow-through with others, mentoring, delegating work, and giving and receiving constructive feedback. Communicates well with clients, project partners and with individuals at all levels in the organization.

Effective skills to help you flourish:

• Experience in medium and/or high voltage substation design.
• Expertise in relaying, protection, and metering design incorporating microprocessor-based devices. Familiarity with programming and testing practices in support of start-up and acceptance testing.
• Expertise in switchgear/substation automation sequence of operations.
• Expertise in facilitating SCADA implementation.
• Experience coordinating with Utility Companies for point of demarcation, interconnect agreements, design standards compliance, etc.
• Distributed Energy Resources (DER) and renewable energy generation.
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) technology.
• Grid scale Photovoltaic (PV) technology.