at Black & Veatch in Burr Ridge, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Lead Electrical Engineer – Substation Design (US Hybrid)
Date: Jun 20, 2024
Location:
US
Company: Black & Veatch Family of Companies
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Company : Black & Veatch Corporation
Req Id : 103740
Opportunity Type : Staff
Relocation eligible : No
Full time/Part time : Full-Time
Project Only Hire : No
Visa Sponsorship Available: Yes
Why Black and Veatch
Recognized by Glassdoor as a 2023 Top 100 place to work, Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day 1. Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.
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The Opportunity
This is a HYBRID opportunity. Hybrid flexibility allows three days in office and two days remote/flex per week. Candidates located or willing to relocate to ANY Black & Veatch U.S. Regional Office may be considered . Here is a link to our current U.S. Regional Office Locations -
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
+ Function as a technical lead substation design engineer . Substation design encompasses distribution, sub-transmission and transmission level voltage classes
+ 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
The Team
BV’s Energy & Process business is driven to meet clients’ rapidly changing infrastructure needs in generation, storage, transmission, and distribution of safe, reliable electric power. Our business continues to invest in renewable energy to power the future and support BV’s vision of more sustainable solutions. By joining our business, you will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of helping our clients with the most innovative energy solutions.
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Black & Veatch provides complete engineering, procurement, and construction new asset and operating asset services in the following areas:
+ Substations
+ Overhead Transmission Lines
+ Underground Transmission Lines
+ Renewables Integration
+ HVDC/FACTs
Minimum Qualifications
+ Bachelor’s Degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
+ Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
+ All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Preferred Qualifications
+ Substation Design experience – Physical andProtection & Controls (P&C)
+ Project Lead experience – Leading teams as technical leader/SME and mentor. Supporting as point of contact for clients and coordinating with internal/external teams.
+ Quality Assurance and Quality Control of substation design projects (QA/QC)
+ Professional Engineering (PE) License
+ Written Communications
+ Drive For Results
+ Priority Setting
+ Planning
+ Delegation
+ Directing Others
+ Conflict Management
+ Informing
+ Listening
+ Dealing with Ambiguity and Building Effective Teams
+ Intermediate knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Standards:
+ Continues to learn, remains current and applies independent knowledge and interpretation about departmental design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Black and Veatch policies and procedures relative to assigned tasks
Quality/Continuous Improvement:
+ Consistently and independently applies knowledge and complies with Black and Veatch quality program relative to assigned tasks
+ May be responsible for ensuring compliance with Black and Veatch quality program
+ Provides guidance and direction to others from the same project and discipline
+ Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts
Engineering Production:
+ 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
+ Is responsible for one or more of the following: overseeing collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work; leading smaller production teams; and serving as the responsible charge for a project
Project Coordination:
+ Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
Client Focus:
+ 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
+ May provide support to business development or pursuit activities
Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:
+ Recognized as a technical specialist by the division having in-depth knowledge of an engineering process and/or of technical aspects of an industry
+ Designs a complete project of moderately complex scope within an assigned practice area(s)
People Management – (supervision,career development, training, mentoring):
+ Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required
Certifications
Most positions – depending on the nature of work performed as defined by the division – will typically require incumbents to have professional registration or licensure in their designated home office country, or be in active pursuit* of such registration
Work Environment/Physical Demands
Competencies
Collaborates
Communicates effectively
Courage
Directs work
Instills trust
Interpersonal savvy
Organizational savvy
Customer focus
Decision quality
Salary Plan
ENG: Engineering
Job Grade
130
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