Lead Electrical Engineer - Substation Design

About the position

As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference. This is a HYBRID opportunity located in Walnut Creek, CA. Flexible hybrid expectations allow three in-office days and two flex/remote days per week.

Responsibilities

• Function as a technical lead substation design engineer.
• Develop electrical design deliverables, including protection and control design (protective relays) and/or physical design.
• Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings.
• Interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors.
• QA/QC projects and mentor junior engineers.
• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables.
• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Plans and conducts independent evaluation, selection and adaptation of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria.
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects.
• Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on less complex projects.
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on less complex projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Substation Design experience - Physical and/or Protection & Controls.
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control of substation design projects.
• Professional Engineering (PE) License; or EIT (Engineer in Training) in pursuit of obtaining PE License.
• Intermediate knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• 401K match and benefits that start day 1.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Paid vacation and holiday time.
• Sick time and dependent sick time.
• Company matched 401k plan.
• Adoption reimbursement.
• Vendor discounts.
• Employment referral program.
• AD&D insurance.
• Pre-taxed accounts.
• Voluntary legal plan.
• Performance-based bonus program.