Substation Design Engineer

Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Role Overview: As a technical lead substation design engineer, you will:

• Design substations for distribution, sub-transmission, and transmission voltage classes.
• Develop electrical design deliverables, including protection and control design and physical design.
• Participate in project management, scheduling, and resource planning meetings.
• Interface with clients, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Perform QA/QC on projects and mentor junior engineers.
• Hybrid role in-office three days/week

Key Responsibilities:

• Stay current with design guides, standards, systems, and engineering codes.
• Ensure compliance with quality programs and support continuous improvement.
• Prepare complex engineering deliverables and conduct equipment/materials research.
• Manage budgets, schedules, and quality requirements for projects.
• Coordinate with internal and external team members on projects.
• Assist with identifying client interests and communicate them to project teams.
• Support business development activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering from an accredited program.
• Minimum of 5 years of high voltage (34.5 kV+) experience.
• Ability to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements, including background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in substation design – Physical and/or Protection & Controls.
• Experience in QA/QC of substation design projects.
• Professional Engineering (PE) License or EIT in pursuit of obtaining a PE License.