Senior Principal Substation Engineer
Location
Reading, PA | United States
Job description
Edoxx Technical Services LLC is a US Company based in Houston, Texas, with access to +350 highly experienced and advanced Engineers and Technicians delivering know-how and expertise in Civil, Mechanical, Piping, Electrical, and Instrumentation engineering. Other related fields such as Projects Control, QA/QC Inspection, 3D Geometrical and Intelligent Modeling, and Drafting are also available.
Our client is looking for a Senior Principal Substation Engineer to work on-site at their Reading, PA office. Our ideal candidate will provide engineering support for the design of substation facilities for voltages up to and including 765 kV for our client and its Customers as an integral part of the Power Networks team. This includes new substations and switchyards, modifications, additions and upgrades to existing facilities.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Independently perform tasks that typically include:
- Substation physical design including overall engineering and analysis for new switchyards and substations, additions and modifications
- Preparation of specifications and provide procurement support
- Preparation of engineering drawings including layout and general arrangements for all major equipment and structures required for high voltage switchyards or substation. Drawings include site plans, plan and elevation views, grounding, conduit, lighting, lightning protection and shielding, control building arrangements and details, AC station service, DC systems and Bills of Material.
- Perform auxiliary electrical power system studies including load flow, short circuit, voltage drop, protection and coordination, ampacity, and battery sizing studies.
- Perform substation grounding calculations and studies, lightning protection and insulation coordination, lighting, bus calculations, transformer and bus sizing calculations, fault calculations, and AC and DC auxiliary system sizing calculations.
- Perform proposal preparation, proposal estimates, and provide input to scope documents and client presentations
- Supervise/coordinate other engineers of equal and lesser experience to successfully deliver a project. Provides technical direction to subordinate team members.
- Perform independent audits and reviews of technical work
- Ability to travel to job sites to perform site walkdown
Qualifications:
- 4 or 5 year Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) in the United States is preferred
- Highly effective technical and practical engineering skills and ability to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work to our client and its Customers
- A sound knowledge of the fundamental requirements of the electrical engineering, and the basic requirements of other engineering fields
- A sound knowledge of applicable local and international standards and statutory and regulatory requirements
- Competent use of electrical engineering specific software
- Substantial technical land practical experience in electrical engineering in the same or similar industry including experience in working in multi-disciplinary projects and teams
- Experience working in project leadership role
- Experience in estimating project costs and writing proposal content
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