Substation Engineer 3 - Grid
$74,353–$113,595 year
HybridReading, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Lead project conceptualization, work planning, and execution for high voltage substation projects while investigating and troubleshooting electrical engineering issues. Prepare technical reports meeting client requirements and S&L formats, review design drawings, and develop single line, relaying, and grounding diagrams. Collaborate with experienced engineers through peer-learning communities and apply modern tools, including automation and AI, to solve problems and improve workflows. You may travel to client sites as needed. This hybrid role requires three days in the office and offers a relocation package.
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
- We do not sponsor employees for work authorization in the U.S. for this position
Desired Qualifications
- A Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering 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 is valued but not required
- We also value 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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