Principal Substation and Protection Control Engineer
Posted
You will develop and review substation physical, protection and control, metering, SCADA, grounding, relay-setting, testing, and commissioning engineering. You will coordinate disciplines and external partners, review vendor work, support procurement and field activities, resolve technical issues, and maintain project documentation.
Responsibilities
- Develop and review substation, protection and control, metering, SCADA, grounding, and relay-setting engineering
- Prepare and review design criteria, calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, estimates, schedules, and scopes of work
- Coordinate interfaces across engineering, permitting, operations, construction, and commissioning disciplines
- Review EPC, consultant, OEM, and vendor work products
- Perform technical studies, equipment selection, design optimization, constructability, and value-engineering evaluations
- Support procurement, vendor-document review, inspections, and factory testing
- Provide field engineering support and review installations
- Investigate and resolve design, construction, software, and commissioning issues
- Support testing, energization, commissioning, startup, and turnover
- Maintain technical baselines, test records, and as-built documentation
- Travel to engineering offices, vendor facilities, and project sites in Texas as required
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 10 or more years of substation, switchyard, transmission, high-voltage construction, or protection and control engineering experience
- Knowledge of protective relaying, SCADA, metering, power-system studies, and substation commissioning
- Familiarity with ERCOT generator and large-load interconnection requirements
- Familiarity with live-tank circuit breakers and current-limiting reactors
- Familiarity with BESS, CCGT, RICE, fuel-cell, and microgrid systems
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and resolve complex technical issues
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- Professional licensure or certification is preferred
- Ability to travel as required