# Senior Substation Engineer, Power Delivery

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $60.20 – $79.80
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As a Senior Substation Engineer, you'll play a key role in delivering substation design solutions for high-voltage utility and renewable energy projects across Canada.

You will perform detailed design of medium- and high-voltage utility substations as an experienced senior engineer in accordance with applicable industry standards, including IEEE and ANSI standards.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing one-line diagrams, general arrangements, elevation views, conduit and cable routing plans, substation physical layouts, grounding layouts, and equipment details.

- Performing engineering calculations, including lightning protection, battery sizing, AC station service sizing, cable ampacities and conduit and cable tray sizing.

- Developing protection and control designs for transmission and distribution substations.

- Preparing protection philosophies, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, logic diagrams, and panel layouts.

- Supporting the development of design basis documents, technical specifications, engineering calculations, reports, and construction packages.

- Collaborating with clients, utilities, equipment suppliers, and project stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

- Providing technical support during procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning.

- Participating in multidisciplinary project teams delivering renewable energy, utility, and industrial power projects.

- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and sharing technical knowledge across the team.

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.

- A Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility for registration in Canada.

- At least 10 to 15 years' experience in substation design engineering within utility, consulting, or industrial environments.

- Demonstrated experience serving as a substation design engineer on multiple concurrent brownfield and greenfield projects.

- Working knowledge of transmission and distribution protection philosophies and industry standards.

- Experience in substation design at 500 kV voltage level is considered an asset.

- Knowledge of IEC 61850 communication protocols and digital substations is considered an asset.

- Strong technical writing, problem-solving, and client-facing communication skills.

- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced project environment.

- Willingness to travel occasionally to client facilities, substations, or project sites.

In terms of compensation, the salary range varies by location:

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $60.20 – $79.80

- MB & ON: $54.90 – $75.70

- NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $54.40 – $72.20

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
- substation design engineering
- transmission and distribution protection philosophies
- IEEE and ANSI standards

### Nice to have
- Experience in substation design at 500 kV voltage level
- Knowledge of IEC 61850 communication protocols and digital substations

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