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Substation Engineer
Direct Hire: Chicago, Illinois, US span>
Salary Range: 80000.00 - 89998.00 | Per Annum
Job Code: 365851
End Date: 2025-12-12
Job Status: Expired
This Job is no longer accepting applications
Title: Substation Engineer
Duration: Full-Time
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary Range: 80k/yr - 90k/yr
Responsibilities:
- Perform Engineering support tasks such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit calculations with minimal supervision
- Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and load flow and short circuit studies with minimal supervision
- Review project Schedules and work with a project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule
- Apply engineering standards, including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE, and ANSI
- Communicate and coordinate project activities with the project engineer, customer representatives, and others as needed
- Spend time at job sites to gain hands-on knowledge and additional training in substation construction and design
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree, from an accredited university. Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry
- Experience in the application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above
- Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems
- Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling
Relay coordination experience is a plus - Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually – as applicable.
Job Requirement
- High Voltage
- AC/DC
- Substation
- Designing
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Sanchej Waghmare
- sanchej.waghmare@collabera.com