Northwest Substation Project Engineer | Power Delivery

HDR; Butte (MT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Disability (short and long-term)

Life insurance

Employee assistance program

Paid time away

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Retirement savings plan with employer

Employee referral bonus

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

HDR is seeking a Substation Project Engineer to join our Power Delivery team. Primary locations include Idaho, Washington, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska, with Montana-Butte among the expanding opportunities.

The role focuses on substation design and project execution within a collaborative employee-owned culture. Responsibilities cover scopes, budgets, grounding, protection, and coordination across civil, networks, and transmission teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering is required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license is required.
• Previous experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector.

Responsibilities

• Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and ensure that schedules and budgets are met.
• Understands physical substation design including yard layouts, plans, sections and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material.
• Understands protection and control design including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring.
• Prepare calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.).
• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing.
• Coordinate design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.).
• Effectively communicate and coordinate project activities with manager, clients, and others as needed.
• Works independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers.

Skills

Substation design

One Lines/Diagrams

Grounding

Protection & control design

Team mentoring / leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Tools

PLS CAD

AutoCAD

Plant 3D

AutoPipe

Revit

Job description

HDR is seeking a Substation Project Engineer to join our Power Delivery team. Primary locations include Idaho, Washington, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska, with Montana-Butte among the expanding opportunities.

The role focuses on substation design and project execution within a collaborative employee-owned culture. Responsibilities cover scopes, budgets, grounding, protection, and coordination across civil, networks, and transmission teams.