Senior Substation Engineer

K&A Engineering; Oakbrook Terrace (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO

Job summary

K&A Engineering is looking for a Senior Substation Engineer based in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. In this role, you will manage the protection design for capital projects, ensuring that existing protections remain intact. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, over 6 years of experience in relay/protection settings engineering, and proficiency in design tools like MicroStation and AutoCAD. A competitive annual salary between $100,000 and $130,000 is offered, along with comprehensive benefits including health insurance and a 401(k) plan.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in relay/protection settings engineering.
• Proven experience in Substation Design including electrical equipment plans and cable design.
• PE license is requested.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed review of existing protection schemes for new design.
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects.
• Provide design support during implementation/testing of projects.

Skills

Relay/protection settings engineering

Substation Design

Microsoft Project

MicroStation

AutoCAD

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Senior Substation Engineer

Role Overview

In this role, you will work on challenging projects that impact the energy and utility sectors. You’ll be part of a dynamic, people‑focused team where your expertise, ideas, and contributions are valued.

Responsibilities

• Perform detailed review of all existing protection schemes present in the subject area to incorporate into new design. Special areas of focus are anti‑islanding schemes, generator intertie settings, SPS schemes, etc. The goal is to ensure that we don’t remove required protections already in place.
• Lead overall protection design for all capital projects and define relay protection functionality/scheme in accordance with client standards.
• Review contractor provided relay settings, logic diagrams (including Goose messaging diagrams), and operational descriptions for all capital projects.
• Review/perform area relay coordination and determine what level of area coordination is required based on changes in fault duty and overall system performance due to the project changes.
• Review contractor provided relay settings for all temporary builds and construction sequence steps including mobile settings.
• Review/provide input to Customer’s Aspen model changes as required for individual capital projects.
• Provide design support during implementation/testing and commissioning of the above items.
• Provide feedback to Customer on existing TM standards and help refine the Customer’s design practices.
• Ensure all as‑built documentation gets filed appropriately in the plant filing location at Customer.
• Lead overall automation and integration design for all capital projects.
• Review/design SCADA point indexes.
• Review contractor provided HMI screens/settings for all capital projects.
• Review/design protection settings and settings basis.
• Review/design IED Data Maps.
• Track all required licenses/firewalls and key automation and integration deliverables needed for project implementation.
• Perform constructability review and ensure adequate automation and integration coverage is available for each outage step (SCADA etc.).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) with a strong background in utilities engineering disciplines.
• 6+ years or more of relay/protection settings engineering experience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Proven experience in Substation Design, including general arrangement, electrical equipment plans, elevation and section views, equipment cable trays, cable design, conduit fill calculations and rigid bus calculations.
• Professional level skills in MicroStation and AutoCAD.
• PE license requested.

Pay Range

$100,000–$130,000 annually

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• FSA, HSA, and Dependent Care Spending Account
• 401(k) (Traditional and Roth with company match)
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA)
• Paid Holidays and Flexible PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement, Parking and Transit Reimbursement, and Pet Insurance
• Long‑Term and Short‑Term Disability and Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)