Sr Substation Engineer

Fort Point; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Fort Point is seeking a Senior Substation Electrical Engineer to lead design and analysis for HV substations and switchyards, including grounding and protection schemes.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of substation experience and a PE license, along with hands-on use of power-system analysis tools such as ETAP, CYME or SKM. On-site collaboration with project teams and clients is expected.

Qualifications

• Degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years in substation design.
• Professional Engineer (PE) licensure is required.
• Experience with power-system modelling tools such as ETAP, CYME or SKM.

Responsibilities

• Lead substation and HV switchyard design, including layouts and grounding.
• Prepare specifications and provide procurement support.
• Develop engineering drawings, site plans, grounding, lightning protection and insulation coordination.
• Perform grounding calculations, insulation coordination and bus/transformer sizing studies.
• Prepare proposals, estimates and client presentations.

Skills

High Voltage Experience

Substation Design

Power System Modeling

Proposal & Cost Estimation

PE Licensure

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

ETAP

CYME

SKM

Job description

SENIOR SUBSTATION ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Seeking Sr. Substation Electrical Engineer with High Voltage (69KV or higher) experience. The Sr. Substation Electrical Engineer will provide engineering support for the design of substation facilities.

Responsible for:

• Substation physical design including overall engineering and analysis for new switchyards and substations, additions and modifications.


• Prepare specifications and provide procurement support


• Prepare engineering drawings including layout of general arrangements for HV switchyards or substation. Develop site plans, plan and elevation views, grounding, conduit, lighting, lightning protection and shielding, control building arrangements and details, AC station service, DC systems and bill of materials.


• Develop substation grounding calculations and studies, lightning protection and insulation coordination, lighting, bus calculations, transformer and bus sizing calculations, fault calculations, and AC and DC auxiliary system sizing calculations.


• Proposal preparation, estimates and input to scope documents and client presentations.

Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor\'s degree in Electrical engineering and 8 more years of experience in substation design


• Professional Engineer (PE)


• Experience power system modeling and analysis tools (e.g. ETAP, CYME, SKM)


• Technical and practical engineering skills and ability to deliver quality, accurate and timely work.


• Experience estimating project costs and writing proposal content.