About this role
Ampirical is a company focused on shaping the future of the power grid with innovation and quality solutions. The Senior/Associate Staff Substation Civil Engineer is responsible for the design and procurement of site and foundation equipment for substation facilities, ensuring compliance with industry standards and client expectations while providing field support during construction activities.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares scopes of work and estimates for evaluating and designing substations
- Interfaces with other company functions, clients, and vendors
- Identifies foundation type best used for a given location
- Performs detail foundation analysis-based site-specific loading and soil conditions
- Performs structural analysis based on load and site conditions as needed
- Performs detail site analysis for clearing, grading and drainage requirements
- Creates site and civil design packages including grading, drainage, site, foundation plans and details
- Mentors new engineers
- Performs quality checks for substation site and foundation design packages to ensure industry and customer standards and requirements are met
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET‑accredited university
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required
- In lieu of PE: +2 years of additional experience
- Senior Engineer: 7+ years in civil design within utilities or the energy sector
- Associate Staff Engineer: 12+ years in civil design within utilities or the energy sector
- Experience with ETAP, WinIGS, and IEEE 80/998
- Experience with structural/foundation loading analysis
- Experience with site design concepts including water flow calculations
- Experience with industry standards