Substation Engineer 3 - Grid
$74,353–$113,595 year
HybridPortland, Oregon, United States
Job Summary
Conduct detailed electrical design and project management for high voltage substation projects, including conceptualization, work planning, and execution. Investigate and solve electrical engineering issues while preparing reports that meet client requirements and S&L formats. Review design drawings, develop single line diagrams, and perform calculations for grounding, shielding, and battery sizing. Manage multiple projects under budget and time constraints, tracking schedules and expenditures against budgets. This role supports a project team environment with opportunities for peer-learning and travel to client sites.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science Engineering degree
- 3 or more years experience in the design of Medium Voltage Power Systems
- Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple projects under budget and time constraints
- Experience tracking project information such as: schedules and expenditures against budgets, preparing status reports and client interface
- Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
- Experience in reviewing design drawings created by others
- Proficiency with MS Office applications
- You may have the opportunity to travel to client sites as needed
- This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, with the expectation of spending three days a week in the office, giving you the flexibility to work remotely for two days
- Dependent upon your location, this opportunity offers a generous relocation package
Desired Qualifications
- A BSEE degree is preferrable
- A degree from an ABET accredited engineering program
- 1 or more years experience designing substations at 138kV and above
- Ability to prepare substation grounding calculations, direct stroke shielding calculations, battery & charger sizing calculations, etc
- Physical layout and protection & controls experience
- Ability to work with Designer to develop substation single line diagrams, relaying & metering diagrams, DC schematic diagrams, substation plan & sections, grounding plans, etc
- Familiarity with ANSI/IEEE/NEMA standards as they relate to substation design. This includes the National Electrical Safety Code (ANSI - C2)
- PE license
- AutoCAD experience
- Programming or scripting (e.g., Python, MATLAB, advanced Excel) to automate calculations, design checks, reporting, or data transformation
- additional learning, such as a minor, certificate, or other training in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, or related fields that helps you apply automation or agentic AI to real engineering problems
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