Substation Electrical Engineer

Ulteig is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Substation Engineer to support Renewables, Utility, and Power projects. The Substation Engineer will develop and review utility substation drawings and act as a technical leader, ensuring designs are complete, accurate, and in accordance with engineering practices and client standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and reviews utility substation drawings, including General Arrangements, Elevations, Cable and Conduit Plans, Grounding Plans, AC/DC Schematics, panel elevations, electrical equipment enclosure plans, wiring diagrams, specifications, and reports to ensure that they are complete, accurate, and in accordance with sound engineering practices and client standards
• Acts as a technical leader and applies standard engineering techniques and procedures on moderately complex projects
• Plans, schedules, conducts and/or coordinates detailed phases of assigned project work
• Makes design recommendations, adaptations and modifications for utility substations
• Performs calculations using engineering formulas and skills
• Involved in the resolution of design problems, which may include performing field investigation or observation, detailed design work and detailed quality control (QC) review of design calculations
• Coordinates specific design aspects of a project requiring the ability to plan, schedule, conduct, and communicate work with team members
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required. ABET accredited program or equivalent required
• PE License strongly preferred. Ability to obtain within 1 year required
• 4 years of engineering experience required
• Prior experience working with physical design or protection and control design of electrical power substations required
• Capable of reviewing and producing design drawings, including General Arrangements, Elevations, Cable and Conduit Plans, Grounding Plans, Physical Connection Details, AC/DC schematics, and wiring diagrams
• Ability to perform AC & DC substation studies
• Proven experience in Microsoft Software Applications (Word, Excel, Power Point)
• Demonstrates openness to innovation by embracing and applying evolving technology and AI tools to enhance workflows, solve problems, and drive continuous improvement
• Up to 15% travel required
• Must have permanent authorization to work in US
• PE License strongly preferred
• Experience using ground grid modeling software a plus
• Knowledge of substation protection and control schemes a plus
• Knowledge of basic relay settings a plus
• Knowledge of National Electric Code (NEC) a plus
• Knowledge of National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) a plus
• Knowledge of Rural Utilities Service (RUS) design guide a plus
• Valid driver's license preferred