# Senior Substation Physical Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Orlando, FL
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Substation Physical Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Substation Physical Engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on projects for electric utilities at voltages from 12kV up to 500kV. This is an exciting and growing field in the power systems industry and allows you to get exposure to how power generation, such as renewable energy, ties into the electric system.

You will be expected to use knowledge of digital logic design, AC and DC circuits to design substation electrical projects. Successful candidates must comply with quality control and safe work practices and maintain compliance with project scope, schedule, and budget.

**Responsibilities:**

- Experience in executing substation physical projects

- Excellent communication skills and ability to interact with the internal team and clients to meet project needs

- Performing quality control checks on substation physical design projects

- Expected to read and design substation physical drawings such as one-line drawings, three-line drawings, plan-section drawings, foundation, grounding drawings

- Create and check bill of materials for substation physical

- Expected to attend site visits at customer locations

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, or related degree with four (4+) or more years of related substation physical design experience

- Experience with grounding studies/lightning protection and lighting studies

- Demonstrate excellent communication skills and ability to interact with the internal team and clients to meet project needs

- Ability to meet deadlines under pressure situations

- Collaborator and leader who can work effectively in a team environment

- Self-starter who works independently with minimal direction

- Strong analytical skills and proven problem solver in both team and independent environments

- High level of computer competency

- Willingness to travel to project and/or client sites

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Engineer's Intern ("EI" or "EIT") professional certification

- Professional Engineer ("PE") License

- Working knowledge of protection and control design

- Experience with bus calculation

- Experience with WinIGS or CDEGS

- Master's degree in a related field

**Benefits:**

- Engineer in Training Certificate (EIT)

- Professional Engineer License (PE)

- Project Management Professional (PMP)

- Technical & Non-Technical Training Opportunities

- Leadership Opportunities

- Mentorship & Training Opportunities

- Opportunity to Lead, Grow, and Inspire a Dynamic Team

## Skills

### Required
- digital logic design
- AC and DC circuits
- substation electrical projects
- quality control
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- grounding studies
- lightning protection
- lighting studies
- protection and control design
- bus calculation
- WinIGS
- CDEGS

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