# Substation Control Design Engineer/Designer

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Forest Park, GA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Substation Design Control Engineer/Designer position is required to design protective relay & control schemes utilizing microprocessor-based relay systems in both green and brown field projects.

Responsibilities:

- Make safety the top priority using a 'Safety First' mentality and leading by example

- Enforce Quality Assurance guidelines for the preparation of high-quality design packages needed to construct substations

- Provide guidance on Southern Company Design Standards, procedures, and processes

- Design protective relay & control schemes utilizing microprocessor-based relay systems

- Assist in the specification and ordering of material for substation design packages

- Coordinate and communicate with other departments associated with Substation Design

- Interact with manufacturers, vendors, and Southern Company committee members to resolve equipment and material issues

- Provide support to Substation Construction, Field Services, Project Management, and Substation Maintenance

- Perform site visits for projects, including pre-engineering meetings and post-job evaluation meetings

- Support Southern Company's design criteria and standardization effort

- Handle multiple tasks simultaneously and use effective time management and organizational skills

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Electrical preferred) with 5 years minimum relevant experience

- Experience using Autodesk Suite (including AutoCAD Electrical) or higher is preferred

- Substation protective relay testing experience along with control scheme testing and commissioning experience a strong plus

- Understanding of substation protection & control scheme operation is preferred

Travel & Work Location:

- This position will require some travel (approximately 25%) and be in Metro Atlanta (Forest Park, GA)

- Relocation assistance may be provided if the successful candidate does not currently live within a reasonable commute distance

## Skills

### Required
- Autodesk Suite
- AutoCAD Electrical
- Microsoft Office
- electrical engineering

### Nice to have
- substation protective relay testing
- control scheme testing and commissioning
- Transmission &/or Distribution Substation Operations

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