Senior Substation Protection & Control Lead (Hybrid)

®; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Technical Leader to guide complex substation projects from pursuit through design, construction, and commissioning. You will lead multisdiscipline teams, work closely with clients, and drive technical excellence across all project phases.

The role emphasizes leading the technical development of proposals, crafts scopes of work, budgets, and staffing plans, and ensures safe, constructible solutions meet client expectations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading complex substation engineering and design projects.
• Strong client-facing, leadership, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Experience developing engineering scopes of work, deliverable plans, labor estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and project budgets.
• Experience leading or contributing to RFQ/RFP and other competitive project pursuits.
• Knowledge of substation codes, standards, and utility design requirements.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the overall technical leader for assigned substation projects and pursuits.
• Lead protection and control designs for AIS and GIS substations across multiple voltage classes.
• Lead multidisciplinary design teams including protection, civil, structural, SCADA/telecom, and other disciplines.
• Establish technical approach, design basis, interfaces, deliverable strategy, and execution plan.
• Coordinate design coordination meetings, technical workshops, and constructability reviews.
• Ensure designs are constructible, compliant with client requirements and industry standards.
• Provide technical leadership through planning, detailed design, procurement support, construction, testing, energization, and commissioning.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and account leaders on proposal strategy and client presentations.

Skills

Leadership

Client-facing

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) registration

15 years of substation engineering experience

Job description

Stantec is seeking a Senior Project Technical Leader to guide complex substation projects from pursuit through design, construction, and commissioning. You will lead multisdiscipline teams, work closely with clients, and drive technical excellence across all project phases.

The role emphasizes leading the technical development of proposals, crafts scopes of work, budgets, and staffing plans, and ensures safe, constructible solutions meet client expectations.