Remote Lead Substation Engineer & Project Delivery

Westinghouse Electric Company; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company seeks a Lead Principal Engineer- Substation for a 1-year contract. You will plan, monitor, and manage internal substation projects from initiation through completion, including engineering oversight and interconnection compliance. Location is remote with bi-monthly reporting to Juno Beach.

Must have extensive HV substation experience and strong project engineering/management skills, coordinating with EORs and stakeholders to meet industry codes and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years’ experience in Substation design and engineering of High Voltage substation projects is highly helpful.
• Project Engineering and/or Project Management experience with a strong bias for action. PMP and/or P.E. is helpful. Not required to stamp engineering drawings.
• Travel required within North America.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and complete large-scale or several medium, complex, or long-term projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks, and changes.
• Conduct project meetings and take responsibility for project tracking and analysis.
• Identify issues, measure and validate results, and implement solutions to project challenges.
• Provide information to internal and external clients on moderate to complex issues.
• Provide technical oversight of external engineers of record (EORs) for all assigned substation projects to ensure compliance with required generation interconnection agreements, scope of work documents, project specifications, site-specific design requirements, IEEE, NESC, ASCE, and all other applicable industry codes and standards.
• Coordinate with other project stakeholders to develop and secure a substation site and support the engineering updates, data, and permits necessary to design and build the substation.
• Support Transmission Services during review of interconnection documentation, including system impact studies, facility studies, reactive and harmonic studies, and interconnection agreements.
• Assist ISC with substation project scope of work creation, review, approval, and preparation of shopping carts for engineering services and materials in a timely manner.
• Manage development of substation design documents, including physical drawings, electrical schematics, and civil drawings, through the 10%, 30%, 60%, 90%, and Issued for Construction (IFC) drawing sets.
• Manage the review of substation design drawings and documents.
• Work collaboratively with project engineering resources in various disciplines to determine project priorities, work plans, and lines of demarcation.
• Support the project schedule from the engineering standpoint.
• Support assigned project commissioning activities to meet corporate objectives.

Skills

Substation design

Project management

Electrical engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Master of Science or MBA

PMP certification

Job description

Westinghouse Electric Company seeks a Lead Principal Engineer- Substation for a 1-year contract. You will plan, monitor, and manage internal substation projects from initiation through completion, including engineering oversight and interconnection compliance. Location is remote with bi-monthly reporting to Juno Beach.

Must have extensive HV substation experience and strong project engineering/management skills, coordinating with EORs and stakeholders to meet industry codes and standards.