# Lead Substation Project Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Austin, TX
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Lead Substation Project Engineer for its Austin, TX; Ft Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Overland Park, KS office. The successful candidate will be involved in projects with the Power Delivery Substation Team, supporting complex substation design projects, managing project execution, and mentoring junior staff.

This position offers the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects, including transmission and distribution substations, power distribution, power regulation, renewable energy, and protection and control systems. The Lead Substation Project Engineer will provide high-level technical assistance and guidance for multi-site/phase due diligence, investigation, remediation, impact assessment, permitting, design, development, and construction of utility, industrial, and commercial scale projects.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and managing project schedules, budgets, and quality for assigned projects

- Supporting the Area Lead/Department Manager with the management of relationships with alliance clients

- Performing QA/QC for deliverables to clients

- Supporting project reporting and proposal development

- Contributing to substation equipment specifications

- Occasional travel and site visits

The Lead Substation Project Engineer will also be responsible for performing and directing others in the detailed design of medium to extra-high-voltage substations, including one-line, schematic, and wiring diagrams, SCADA and Communications, station physical layouts, and cable and conduit plans.

Additionally, the successful candidate will:

- Perform substation studies and calculations

- Specify and select substation equipment

- Provide construction support and inter-disciplinary coordination

- Support the mentorship and training of other team members

- Understand and adhere to client standards and processes

- Demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

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

- Engineer license required

- Proficiency with electrical engineering principles, practices, and design/build

- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure design

- Demonstrated competence and comprehensive knowledge concerning adjacent disciplines

- Experience with electrical infrastructure 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

- Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, and discipline-specific design software

- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, retirement savings, paid sick leave, paid vacation, and paid parental leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Infrastructure Design
- Power Distribution
- Renewable Energy
- SCADA
- Telecom
- AutoCAD
- MicroStation

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Engineering
- Experience in 230kV through 765kV substation design
- IEEE/ANSI standards
- Experience managing people on a multi-disciplinary project team

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