Sr Substation Engineer (Physical Design)

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Overview

TRC Companies is hiring now for a Senior Substation Engineer with 7 years of relevant experience to work from our office in Hyderabad, India. The successful candidate will be responsible for work related to substation engineering and consulting services for clients across the US, will also have other responsibilities including creating electrical protection & control and/or physical layout design deliverables. Projects range in size, complexity, and voltage class from small distribution equipment upgrades to large transmission projects

Responsibilities

• Perform quality reviews for other engineers and designers
• Other areas of involvement may include relay settings, 3D modelling/design, or industry/professional technical committee involvement
• Conceptual designs and execution plans
• Engineering/project cost estimates and schedules
• Physical substation design including yard layouts, plans, sections and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material
• Protection and control design including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC schematics, DC elementaries, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring
• Calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.)
• Equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing
• Coordination of design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.)
• Develop and improve processes, tools and/or technology implementations
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 7 + years of relevant experience with Substation design.
• Prior experience with AutoCAD is mandatory. Experience with MicroStation and Bluebeam is good to have.
• Prior experience with Physical design.
• Proficiency with National Electrical Safety Code and IEEE / ANSI Standard
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Capability of solving difficult problems that require adaptation and modification of standard approaches, techniques, procedures, and criteria
  
  

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The complete job description and application are available on TRC’s career site.

TRC accepts applications for this position on an ongoing, rolling basis and reserves the right to cancel this posting at any time.