# Senior Electrical Engineer **Company**: WSP **Location**: Pasig City, National Capital Region (NCR) **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96977?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_495f648b-2d0 ## Description As a Senior Electrical Engineer at WSP, you will have the opportunity to work on landmark projects around the world and make a significant impact in the communities you care about. The main activities and responsibilities of this role include: - Complying with all role-specific SHEQ, quality, governance, ethics, and risk-management obligations, and actively applying Safety in Design principles throughout the project lifecycle. - Collaborating with Manila and Australian Power & Energy teams, clients, utilities and network service providers, OEMs, contractors, and other engineering disciplines. - Developing electrical network concepts and design solutions for EHV, HV, and MV systems supplying infrastructure, transport facilities, industrial sites, water assets, data centres, and other critical facilities. - Defining the electrical supply philosophy, connection arrangement, network topology, voltage levels, redundancy, resilience, maintainability, and staged development requirements for new and upgraded facilities. - Preparing and reviewing single-line diagrams, key line diagrams, substation layouts, equipment arrangements, cable route drawings, schematics, design reports, specifications, datasheets, schedules, and technical calculations. - Undertaking or coordinating load assessments, demand forecasts, equipment sizing, voltage-drop and cable-rating calculations, short-circuit assessments, insulation coordination, reactive power considerations, and network performance checks to support Design Decisions. - Designing and specifying EHV/HV/MV substations, including AIS and GIS solutions, power transformers, reactors, switchgear, instrument transformers, surge arresters, busbars, neutral earthing equipment, and associated primary plant. - Designing and specifying underground cable systems, including conductor sizing, ampacity and derating, bonding and earthing, sheath voltage and losses, cable routing, trench and duct-bank requirements, joints, terminations, pulling considerations, and interfaces with civil works. - Developing earthing and lightning protection design inputs, including fault-current allocation, touch and step voltage requirements, equipment bonding, lightning risk considerations, and coordination with specialist studies. - Coordinating interfaces with protection, control, SCADA, telecommunications, metering, secondary systems, building services, civil, structural, mechanical, fire, security, and architectural teams. - Contributing to proposals, scopes of work, fee estimates, programmes, and resource planning, and supporting client engagement and technical presentations. - Mentoring junior engineers and designers, promoting consistent engineering practices, and sharing lessons learned across the team. The qualifications for this role include: - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline from a recognised institution; postgraduate study in electrical engineering is desirable. - Typically 7+ years of relevant experience in the design and delivery of HV/MV electrical networks, substations, or major infrastructure power systems. - Strong practical knowledge of EHV, HV, and MV network design, substation primary systems, and the interfaces between primary plant, secondary systems, and facility distribution. - Demonstrated experience developing power-supply solutions from utility connection through substations and distribution networks to infrastructure or facility loads. - Experience designing AIS and/or GIS substations and specifying transformers, switchgear, instrument transformers, surge arresters, busbars, neutral earthing equipment, and associated primary plant. - Experience with underground HV/MV cable systems, including cable sizing and derating, bonding and earthing, route and installation requirements, joints and terminations, and civil interfaces. - Ability to prepare and review single-line diagrams, layouts, specifications, datasheets, equipment schedules, cable schedules, design reports, and calculation packages. - Sound understanding of load flow, voltage drop, fault levels, equipment ratings, protection coordination, insulation coordination, earthing, and lightning protection as they affect physical design and equipment selection. - Experience with critical infrastructure or data-centre power systems, including high-availability configurations, redundant supplies, staged expansion, maintainable isolation, and continuity-of-service considerations, is highly regarded. - Working knowledge of relevant Australian, IEC, and project-specific standards and utility requirements. - Experience coordinating with utilities, clients, OEMs, contractors, and multidisciplinary design teams across concept, detailed design, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning phases. - Strong technical writing and spoken English, with the ability to communicate complex electrical concepts clearly across countries, cultures, and time zones. ## Skills ### Required - Electrical Engineering - EHV/HV/MV network design - Substation primary systems - Power transformers - Switchgear - Instrument transformers - Surge arresters - Busbars - Neutral earthing equipment - Underground HV/MV cable systems - Cable sizing and derating - Bonding and earthing - Load flow - Voltage drop - Fault levels - Equipment ratings - Protection coordination - Insulation coordination - Earthing and lightning protection ### Nice to have - Critical infrastructure or data-centre power systems - High-availability configurations - Redundant supplies - Staged expansion - Maintainable isolation - Continuity-of-service considerations --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/96977?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)