High Voltage Substation Engineer - Supervisor

High Voltage Substation Engineer in Philadelphia Area - SupervisorSummary

Has complete responsibility for profitability, quality and schedule performance for the local engineering team.  Perform engineering duties as necessary to ensure completion of projects goals.  Pparticipate in customer meetings as needed and work on business development plans to increase presence in Northeastern Region.

 

 Education / Experience

Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.  Must be a licensed professional engineer with over 10 years experience in the industry.  If registered in a state other than where the engineer will practice, the employee must be able to obtain a license within one year of date of hire. Extensive knowledge and demonstrated experience in both substation engineering and design, along with the ability to oversee multiple projects, are required.

 Qualifications

Possess skills in the following areas:

?  Experience in managing the efforts of a design team that includes multiple discipline engineers, designers and drafters.

?  Extensive knowledge and understanding of high voltage electrical substation components and their functions, 138kV and above

?  Extensive knowledge and understanding of AC/DC fundamentals, three phase power systems, and symmetrical components

?  Strong knowledge of common engineering application software

?  Extensive knowledge and understanding of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI

?  Extensive knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a project

?  Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and e-mail software

?  Effective oral and written communication skills

 

Duties & Responsibilities

Employee may be called upon to perform any or all of the following functions:

?  Insure that projects are managed to meet project quality, schedule and profitability objectives.

?  Supervise the efforts of several project teams to ensure on time completion of multiple projects.

?  Ensure project teams are using project specific standards and that design efforts are progressing efficiently

?  Communicate and coordinate project activities with customer representatives, project teams, and management, and others as needed

?  Prepare and track project schedules and budgets and work with project team leaders to ensure projects remain on schedule and within budget.

?  Apply engineering application software to complete tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and short circuit and load flow studies

?  Perform project engineering and design functions when necessary to meet project schedules

?  Properly use the document management system

?  Ensure project team members are working in a responsible manner and taking ?ownership? for their work

?  Travel out of town for short periods of time as required by projects and assignments

?  Develop presence in Northeastern region of the United States

?  Other duties as required