# Lead Substation Project Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Lead Substation Project Engineer for their Houston, TX office, with consideration for Austin, TX. The role involves providing high-level technical assistance and guidance for multi-site projects, focusing on substation design, development, and construction.

Responsibilities:

- Provide guidance on collecting, compiling, and analysing data for substation projects

- Coordinate, review, and approve electrical infrastructure design plans

- Apply high-level electrical engineering techniques to identify improvements for infrastructure projects

- Perform complex electrical engineering work, including substation layout and bus arrangement design

- Plan and incorporate future-ready techniques and design requirements

- Review electrical calculations and develop plans, specifications, and cost estimates

- Oversee cross-functional teams and manage design and construction projects

- Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations

- Analyse, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during field investigations

- Prepare and implement site Health and Safety Plans

- Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients

- Collaborate with professionals on improvement and development projects

- Remain current in latest electrical engineering techniques and practices

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

- 7-10 years of relevant post-education experience as an electrical engineer

- Professional Engineer License

- Proficient with electrical engineering principles, practices, and processes

- Extensive knowledge of substation design

- Demonstrates competence in adjacent disciplines such as electrical engineering, P&C, physical, civil, structural, SCADA, and telecom

- Experience with electrical substation planning, design, and construction management

- Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant engineering and electrical construction laws, codes, regulations, and compliance practices

- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills

- Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities

- Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members

- Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools

- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills

- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP's health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Substation Design
- Power Generation
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Project Management
- Health and Safety Plans

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Engineering
- Inspection and Investigation

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