Lead Principal Engineer- Substation Job Details | Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

Westinghouse Electric Company supports clean energy solutions through its WECTEC Staffing Services subsidiary. The Lead Principal Engineer will plan, monitor, and manage substation projects from early-stage development through construction and commissioning, overseeing engineering requirements, design compliance, project resources, schedules, and technical deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate, and complete large-scale or several medium, complex, or long-term projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines
• Secure required resources and use formal processes and tools to manage resources, budgets, risks, and changes
• Conduct project meetings and take responsibility for project tracking and analysis
• Identify issues, measure and validate results, and implement solutions to project challenges
• Provide information to internal and external clients on moderate to complex issues
• Provide technical oversight of external engineers of record (EORs) for all assigned substation projects to ensure compliance with required generation interconnection agreements, scope of work documents, project specifications, site-specific design requirements, IEEE, NESC, ASCE, and all other applicable industry codes and standards
• Coordinate with other project stakeholders to develop and secure a substation site and support the engineering updates, data, and permits necessary to design and build the substation
• Support Transmission Services during review of interconnection documentation, including system impact studies, facility studies, reactive and harmonic studies, and interconnection agreements
• Assist ISC with substation project scope of work creation, review, approval, and preparation of shopping carts for engineering services and materials in a timely manner
• Manage development of substation design documents, including physical drawings, electrical schematics, and civil drawings, through the 10%, 30%, 60%, 90%, and Issued for Construction (IFC) drawing sets
• Manage the review of substation design drawings and documents
• Work collaboratively with project engineering resources in various disciplines to determine project priorities, work plans, and lines of demarcation
• Support the project schedule from the engineering standpoint
• Support assigned project commissioning activities to meet corporate objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• 10+ years' experience in Substation design and engineering of High Voltage substation projects is highly helpful
• Project Engineering and/or Project Management experience with a strong bias for action
• Travel required within North America
• Master of Science or MBA Degree is helpful
• PMP and/or P.E. is helpful. Not required to stamp engineering drawings