Job Description
The Electrical Engineer role focuses on designing and supporting power generation and delivery systems, including high-voltage electrical infrastructure, substations, and renewable energy facilities, while coordinating across multiple engineering disciplines and ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of high-voltage electrical systems, substations, transmission lines, and renewable energy facilities.
- Coordinate engineering and design activities across multiple disciplines, including protection, control, SCADA, civil, and structural engineering.
- Develop and review technical documents such as design drawings, reports, specifications, and cost estimates.
- Conduct electrical studies including load flow, short circuit, grounding, protection coordination, and arc flash analysis.
- Perform interdisciplinary reviews to ensure seamless integration of design packages across engineering teams.
- Support project management by assisting in proposal development, estimating, and tracking workload, schedule, and budget.
Requirements
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of power engineering principles, with expertise in high-voltage electrical systems and components involved in power generation, transmission, distribution, and substation design.
- Communicate effectively with all project stakeholders, actively coordinating engineering and design activities across multiple engineering disciplines, including substation physical, protection control, SCADA, civil, structural, transmission, distribution, collection system, studies, construction, procurement, and project management.
- Lead the engineering efforts on project design through the different project milestones from start to finish.
- Assist project managers in developing proposal documents and estimates for bidding or change orders.
- Work with drafters, designers, and other engineers on the preparation and checking of design drawings and design packages.
- Participate in occasional site visits, field walkdowns, or client meetings at the client location as required.
- Communicate with the Project Manager and Discipline Manager regarding workload status and complete assignments within scope, schedule, and budget with a high degree of accuracy to ensure the delivery of quality results.
- Draft, review, and finalize project technical documents including master deliverable list, design criteria, design drawings, engineering reports, specifications, bill of materials, technical proposals, cost estimates, feasibility studies, testing procedures, commissioning plans, construction staging, outage plans, and scope of work documents.
- Have a solid understanding of industry practices and standards such as NEC, NESC, NFPA, IEEE, ANSI, USDA, and other relevant technical standards.
- Conduct interdisciplinary reviews of design packages prepared by other engineering teams to ensure seamless coordination and integration across all engineering disciplines.
- Experience with interconnection PSCAD and PSSE load flow and dynamic analysis.
- Experience with dynamic modeling and tuning of renewable generators in PSSE using the WECC generic models.
- Experience with dynamic benchmarking of PSSE and PSCAD models.
- Strong understanding of latest industry standards related to modeling, including NERC PRC and MOD standards, IEEE 2800, IEEE 1547, and FERC orders.
- Familiarity with generation interconnection processes in ERCOT, MISO, SPP, and FERC pro-forma.
- Experience with model tuning to meet PRC-019, PRC-024, PRC-029 (preferred), and MOD-026, MOD-027 (preferred).
- Experience with injection studies, LGIP SGIP DER system impact studies, transmission capability analyses, LMP forecasting, and congestion analyses.
- High proficiency in using specialty software and tools such as PSSE, PSCAD, PSLF, ASPEN One-liner, ETAP, EMTP, SKM, CYME, TSAT, PowerWorld, and Windmill.
- Develop high-quality technical reports documenting electrical studies performed.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of electrical theory and concepts in performing studies such as load flow, reactive power, short circuit, grounding, cable ampacity, energy loss, harmonics, protection coordination, arc flash, insulation coordination, induced voltages, and TOV TRV.
- Review utility interconnection studies and ensure compliance with interconnection and PPA requirements.
- Possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
- Possession of Engineer-in-Training (EIT) Certification is desired for Level I through III.
- Possession of a Professional Engineer (PE) License is desired for Level IV and above.
Benefits & Perks
Competitive compensation packages including annual bonuses, spot bonuses, and peer recognition awards
Generous paid time off and paid parental leave
Flexible work schedules for some positions
Travel vouchers based on travel preferences
401K match up to 4% of compensation
Tuition assistance and student loan repayment up to $25,000
Paid licensing, certification fees, and renewals
Financial rewards for obtaining licensure
Employee referral bonuses up to $5,000
Annual wellness reimbursement up to $500 for wellness-related expenses
Gym memberships, fitness trackers, home gym equipment
Dependent care matching
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Pet insurance
Health savings account and flexible spending account options
Employer-paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
MetLife supplemental benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
Member Assistance Program with counseling, legal, financial, and work-life services
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