Senior Substation Protection & Control Designer - Remote

Actalent; Roanoke (VA); Remote; USD 48,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Pre-tax and Roth post-tax options

Life Insurance & AD&D

Short and long-term disability

Health Spending Account (HSA)

Time Off / PTO

Job summary

Actalent in Roanoke, Virginia, seeks a Protection and Control Designer to develop electrical construction drawings for substations. You will create three-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and relay schematics using AutoCAD Electrical and manage design documentation in ProjectWise.

You will design protection schemes for breakers, line and bus relaying, and internal/external station communication, ensuring compliance with current standards.

Qualifications

• Create and modify three-line diagrams, AC & DC schematics, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, relay schematics, or other equipment schematics such as MOABs, circuit breakers, CCVTs, and panel front views using AutoCAD Electrical.
• Design protection schemes that deal with breaker controls, line relaying, bus relaying, and communication internal to the station as well as external to the station.
• Work with the latest standards to create drawings for a given project.
• Set up layouts for plotting using existing drawing templates or develop new templates as required.
• Work with part naming and numbering conventions, and file naming and management protocols.
• Use ProjectWise for project documentation to track all design modifications and new designs.

Responsibilities

• Create and modify three-line diagrams, AC & DC schematics, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, relay schematics, or other equipment schematics such as MOABs, circuit breakers, CCVTs, and panel front views using AutoCAD Electrical.
• Design protection schemes that deal with breaker controls, line relaying, bus relaying, and communication internal to the station as well as external to the station.
• Work with the latest standards to create drawings for a given project.
• Set up layouts for plotting using existing drawing templates or develop new templates as required.
• Work with part naming and numbering conventions, and file naming and management protocols.
• Use ProjectWise for project documentation to track all design modifications and new designs.

Skills

Protection system understanding

Electrical drawing interpretation

Standards compliance

Tools

AutoCAD Electrical

ProjectWise

Job description

Actalent in Roanoke, Virginia, seeks a Protection and Control Designer to develop electrical construction drawings for substations. You will create three-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and relay schematics using AutoCAD Electrical and manage design documentation in ProjectWise.

You will design protection schemes for breakers, line and bus relaying, and internal/external station communication, ensuring compliance with current standards.