What are the responsibilities and job description for the Substation Design Engineer position at Spencer Ogden?
Position: Substation Engineer
Level: Graduate, mid-level, and senior roles
Focus: Engineering design for substations, including physical and protection & control practices. Requires knowledge of substation systems from 34.5kV to 500kV and basic principles of high-voltage substation engineering design.
Location: Lewisville, TX - Hybrid 3 days in office
Duties & Responsibilities
Employees may perform any or all of the following:
• Create design documents and drawings: Work within a project team to develop all project deliverables, including wiring diagrams from schematics, bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups to as-built drawings with minimal supervision.
• Perform engineering support tasks: Conduct calculations such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit with minimal supervision.
• Apply engineering software: Use tools for tasks like ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, load flow, and short circuit studies with minimal supervision.
• Review schedules: Monitor project timelines and collaborate with project engineers to keep projects on track.
• Apply standards: Adhere to NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI standards.
• Use document management: Properly utilize systems for project documentation.
• Apply corporate practices: Follow Primoris standard engineering procedures.
• Communicate and coordinate: Coordinate with project engineers, customer representatives, and others.
• Gain hands-on experience: Spend time at job sites for training in substation construction and design.
• Ensure quality: Take ownership of work accuracy and quality.
• Identify issues: Report potential problems and solutions to supervisors.
• Travel: Occasional short-term out-of-town travel for projects.
• Other duties: As assigned by management.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) from an accredited university.
Required Experience
• Senior applicants must be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) with ability to obtain licensure in multiple states or gain it within one year of hire.
Technical Skills & Knowledge
• Relays and Metering: Familiarity with electrical relays in the electric power utility industry; experience applying relays and metering in substations at 138kV and above.
• P&C Design Experience: Designing electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems; designing connection drawings and cabling.
• Physical Design Experience: Performing physical design for stations of varying voltage classes. Apply industry standards to produce and a safe and functional substation while value engineering for efficient and cost-effective construction.
• Studies: Interpret and apply the results of studies including grounding, lighting, lightning, short circuit, reactive power, TOV, harmonics and relay coordination. Ability to perform these studies is a plus.
• Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of AC/DC principles; three-phase power systems; per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components.
• Substation Knowledge: Understanding of substation components and functions; design documents and drawings needed for projects.
• Standards: Knowledge of NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI.
• Software: Proficiency in common word processing, spreadsheets, and email tools.
Soft Skills
• Effective communication with co-workers, vendors, and clients.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
