Senior Substation Protection & Control Lead

®; Portland (ME); 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.

You’ll lead protection and control designs for AIS/GIS, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and partner with Project Managers to align scope, schedule, and budgets. This role emphasizes client engagement, mentoring, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex substation engineering and design projects.
• Strong expertise in high-voltage substation engineering, with protection and control design experience.
• Ability to lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience developing engineering scopes of work, deliverable plans, labor estimates, schedules, and budgets.
• Experience leading or contributing to RFQ, RFP, and competitive pursuits.
• Willingness to travel to support clients and projects.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the overall technical leader for assigned substation projects and pursuits.
• Lead protection and control designs for AIS and GIS substations, including greenfield installations, relay replacements, expansions, and brownfield modifications.
• Lead protection and control designs for voltage classes from distribution through 230 kV, 345 kV, 500 kV, and 765 kV.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams across protection, physical, civil, structural, geotechnical, SCADA/telecom, and other disciplines.
• Establish the project's technical approach, design basis, interfaces, deliverable strategy, and execution plan.
• Lead design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and constructability reviews; resolve complex issues.
• Ensure designs are coordinated, constructible, and compliant with client requirements and standards.
• Provide technical leadership through planning, detailed design, procurement support, construction, testing, energization, and commissioning.
• Partner with Project Managers to align technical execution with scope, schedule, budget, and client expectations.
• Lead the technical development of proposals and pursuits for new and existing clients.
• Translate client requirements into executable scopes of work, deliverable lists, and staffing plans.
• Develop and validate engineering labor estimates and project budgets; document assumptions and risks.
• Coordinate inputs across disciplines to align scope, execution, schedule, staffing, and fee.
• Identify scope gaps and risks and develop qualifications for pursuits.
• Collaborate with account leaders on proposal strategy, client presentations, and interviews.
• Support transition from pursuit to project execution; ensure delivery team understands commitments and budgets.
• Serve as a senior technical representative in client meetings, workshops, and reviews.
• Build trusted client relationships through technical judgment and responsiveness.
• Mentor and develop engineers and designers; support broader substation team development.

Skills

Technical leadership

Protection & control design

Substation engineering

Client engagement

Project budgeting

Staffing planning

RFQ/RFP leadership

Mentoring engineers

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) registration

15+ years substation experience

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.

You’ll lead protection and control designs for AIS/GIS, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and partner with Project Managers to align scope, schedule, and budgets. This role emphasizes client engagement, mentoring, and technical excellence.