Substation Project Engineer

$80,000 - $130,000/Yr

Henningson Durham & Richardson Pc - Billings, MT

Full-time - Mid Level

Billings, MT

Waste Management and Remediation Services

About the position

The Substation Project Engineer at HDR is responsible for physical substation, protection, and control engineering for High Voltage Electric Utility projects ranging from 12 kV to 500 kV. This role involves managing project scopes, schedules, and budgets while ensuring effective communication and coordination with various departments and stakeholders. The engineer will work independently and may mentor less-experienced team members, contributing to a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Responsibilities

• Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and ensure that schedules and budgets are met
• Understand physical substation design including yard layouts, plans, sections and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material
• Understand protection and control design including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring
• Prepare calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.)
• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing
• Coordinate design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.)
• Effectively communicate and coordinate project activities with manager, clients, and others as needed
• Work independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers
• Perform other duties as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering
• Professional Engineer (PE) license
• Previous experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector
• Computer skills in Microsoft Office as well as standard Power Market Sector design software (examples include PLS CAD, AutoCAD, Plant 3D, AutoPipe, and Revit)
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

Nice-to-haves

• Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• A minimum of 3 years experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector
• Previous experience with an engineering consulting firm

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short and long-term disability
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time away
• Parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Employee referral bonus
• Tuition reimbursement