Lead Electrical Engineer - Substation Design

The Opportunity

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Function as a technical lead substation design engineer. Substation design encompasses distribution, sub-transmission and transmission level voltage classes
• Develop electrical design deliverables, including protection and control design (protective relays) and/or physical design
• Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings
• Interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors
• QA/QC projects and mentor junior engineers
  
  Minimum Qualifications
  
  • Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
  • Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
  • All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
    
  Preferred Qualifications
  
  • Substation Design experience Physical and Protection & Controls (P&C)
  • Project Lead experience Leading teams as technical leader/SME and mentor. Supporting as point of contact for clients and coordinating with internal/external teams.
  • Quality Assurance and Quality Control of substation design projects (QA/QC)
  • Professional Engineering (PE) License
  • Written Communications
  • Drive For Results
  • Priority Setting
  • Planning
  • Delegation
  • Directing Others
  • Conflict Management
  • Informing
  • Listening
  • Dealing with Ambiguity and Building Effective Teams
  • Intermediate knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
    
  Key Responsibilities
  Engineering Standards:
  
  • Continues to learn, remains current and applies independent knowledge and interpretation about departmental design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Client policies and procedures relative to assigned tasks
    
  Quality/Continuous Improvement:
  
  • Consistently and independently applies knowledge and complies with Client quality program relative to assigned tasks
  • May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Client quality program
  • Provides guidance and direction to others from the same project and discipline
  • Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts
    
  Engineering Production:
  
  • Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables
  • Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
  • Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles
  • Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements
  • Plans and conducts independent evaluation, selection and adaptation of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria
  • Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments
  • Is responsible for one or more of the following: overseeing collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work; leading smaller production teams; and serving as the responsible charge for a project
    
  Project Coordination:
  
  • Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
    
  Client Focus:
  
  • Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on less complex projects
  • Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on less complex projects
  • May provide support to business development or pursuit activities
    
  Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:
  
  • Recognized as a technical specialist by the division having in-depth knowledge of an engineering process and/or of technical aspects of an industry
  • Designs a complete project of moderately complex scope within an assigned practice area(s)
    
  People Management - (supervision, career development, training, mentoring):
  
  • Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required