Substation Engineer - Transportation Market
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Our transportation and utility services professionals offer practical, forward-thinking expertise in a wide range of practice areas, including active transportation, bridge design, roadway design and traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems, utility and broadband services, grant writing, program management and so much more! From interstates and intersections to bridges and bike paths, we invite you to join us in designing transportation systems that connect us to the people and places we care about most.
Responsibilities:
Plans, organizes and supervises the work of a staff of engineering professionals and technicians.
Detailed design of high voltage substations, including but not limited to:
General Arrangement and Equipment layout
Elevations and Sections
Bus and Cable layout and calculations
Grounding design and analysis
Shielding design and analysis
Facility lighting
Single and Three-Line diagrams
Protection and control schematics
Wiring and connection diagrams
Foundation layout and design
Secondary Containment design and calculations
Protective relay settings
Preparation of the following:
Calculations for faults, grounding, lightning protection, rigid bus bracing and support
Transformer sizing
AC and DC auxiliary system sizing
Arrester and insulator coordination and selection
Project Specifications for materials, equipment and construction requirements.
Other Electrical Design: Substation Design, Studies (Arc Flash, System, Capacitor, Grounding, etc.), Design support for electrical power supply elements in Street Lighting and Traffic Signal designs.
Point selection of substation IEDs and interfacing SCADA, Communications and Security
Minimum Qualifications:
Detailed knowledge of the following is required:
NEC and NESC code requirements
Power utilization equipment including: switchgear, protective relays, breakers, transformers, motors and generators
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Mechanical Engineering (BSME), or other related degree from an accredited four year college or university.
5-10 Years of experience in High Voltage Electric Substation Design.
Registered Professional Engineer. Willingness to acquire licenses in other states.
Good written and oral communication skills
Experience in the utility industry
Gresham Smith is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Gresham Smith provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender, national origin, status as a protected veteran, disability or any other classification protected by law.
Gresham Smith will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, headhunters, contract recruiters, search firms, or employment agencies. An executed GRESHAM PLACEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (PSA) is required prior to any payment obligation for either a referral or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously executed PSA, GRESHAM SMITH explicitly reserves the right to recruit and hire those candidate(s) at its discretion, and without any financial obligation whatsoever to the recruiter or agency. Any such unsolicited resume or candidate contact information, including those submitted directly to GRESHAM SMITHS hiring managers or any other employee, shall become the property of GRESHAM SMITH upon receipt.
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Our transportation and utility services professionals offer practical, forward-thinking expertise in a wide range of practice areas, including active transportation, bridge design, roadway design and traffic engineering, intelligent transportation systems, utility and broadband services, grant writing, program management and so much more! From interstates and intersections to bridges and bike paths, we invite you to join us in designing transportation systems that connect us to the people and places we care about most.
Responsibilities:
Plans, organizes and supervises the work of a staff of engineering professionals and technicians.
Detailed design of high voltage substations, including but not limited to:
General Arrangement and Equipment layout
Elevations and Sections
Bus and Cable layout and calculations
Grounding design and analysis
Shielding design and analysis
Facility lighting
Single and Three-Line diagrams
Protection and control schematics
Wiring and connection diagrams
Foundation layout and design
Secondary Containment design and calculations
Protective relay settings
Preparation of the following:
Calculations for faults, grounding, lightning protection, rigid bus bracing and support
Transformer sizing
AC and DC auxiliary system sizing
Arrester and insulator coordination and selection
Project Specifications for materials, equipment and construction requirements.
Other Electrical Design: Substation Design, Studies (Arc Flash, System, Capacitor, Grounding, etc.), Design support for electrical power supply elements in Street Lighting and Traffic Signal designs.
Point selection of substation IEDs and interfacing SCADA, Communications and Security
Minimum Qualifications:
Detailed knowledge of the following is required:
NEC and NESC code requirements
Power utilization equipment including: switchgear, protective relays, breakers, transformers, motors and generators
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE), Mechanical Engineering (BSME), or other related degree from an accredited four year college or university.
5-10 Years of experience in High Voltage Electric Substation Design.
Registered Professional Engineer. Willingness to acquire licenses in other states.
Good written and oral communication skills
Experience in the utility industry
Gresham Smith is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Gresham Smith provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender, national origin, status as a protected veteran, disability or any other classification protected by law.
Gresham Smith will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, headhunters, contract recruiters, search firms, or employment agencies. An executed GRESHAM PLACEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT (PSA) is required prior to any payment obligation for either a referral or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously executed PSA, GRESHAM SMITH explicitly reserves the right to recruit and hire those candidate(s) at its discretion, and without any financial obligation whatsoever to the recruiter or agency. Any such unsolicited resume or candidate contact information, including those submitted directly to GRESHAM SMITHS hiring managers or any other employee, shall become the property of GRESHAM SMITH upon receipt.
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