Senior Substation Engineering Leader - Hybrid HV Design

Stantec; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Technical Leader to provide overall technical direction for complex substation projects from pursuit through design, construction, and commissioning. The role emphasizes leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with project managers, and delivering safe, high-quality, constructible solutions aligned with client needs.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in high-voltage substation design, from general arrangement to grounding, protection

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex substation engineering and design projects.
• Strong technical expertise in high-voltage substation engineering and physical design including GA, elevations, equipment layout, grounding, and protection interfaces.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams across electrical, civil, and control disciplines.
• Experience developing engineering scopes, labor estimates, budgets, and schedules.
• Experience leading RFQ/RFP responses and competitive project pursuits.
• Knowledge of constructability, brownfield interfaces, outage constraints, and commissioning considerations.
• Strong client-facing, leadership, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the overall technical leader for assigned substation projects and pursuits.
• Lead physical design for AIS and GIS substations and associated expansions or brownfield mods.
• Lead designs for voltage classes from distribution to 765 kV as project requires.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams across electrical, civil, and control disciplines.
• Establish technical approach, design basis, interfaces, deliverable strategy, and execution plan.
• Lead design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and constructability reviews.
• Ensure designs are constructible, compliant, and meet client requirements.
• Provide technical leadership through planning, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning.
• Collaborate with project managers on scope, schedule, budget, and client expectations.
• Develop proposals and scopes of work; translate client needs into executable plans.
• Develop labor estimates, budgets, and risk assessments for projects.

Skills

Technical leadership

High-voltage substation

Multidisciplinary teams

Project budgeting

Proposal development

Client engagement

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

PE registration

Job description

Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Technical Leader to provide overall technical direction for complex substation projects from pursuit through design, construction, and commissioning. The role emphasizes leading multidisciplinary teams, coordinating with project managers, and delivering safe, high-quality, constructible solutions aligned with client needs.

The ideal candidate will have deep experience in high-voltage substation design, from general arrangement to grounding, protection