What are the responsibilities and job description for the Substation Engineer position at Kimley Horn?
Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. prides itself on hiring high-achieving, creative, dedicated, and reliable professionals. Kimley-Horn is looking for a driven Substation Engineer to help serve and grow our power utility and energy developer clients in an integrated manner.
Our power delivery practice has been growing quickly and we are committed to growing and building a team of highly specialized professionals to support a variety of substation and transmission and distribution projects throughout the country. The ideal candidate will have an entrepreneurial spirit and a broad understanding of engineering, design, and specifications of power systems for utility transmission and distribution projects. Focused experience with power delivery design is preferred, but a diverse understanding of; grid integration; high voltage substations and transmission lines; medium voltage utility distribution systems; SCADA; and low voltage industrial and commercial distribution systems is highly desired.
- Generate one and three-line diagrams, protection, and control (P&C) schematics, communications diagrams, wiring diagrams, substation design and physical plan, section and detail drawings and application of mark-ups for project-built drawings.
- Specifying and procuring substation equipment and material
- Understanding and adhereing to budget, schedule, and quality requirements
- Engaging other groups in the firm in technical discussions and awareness
- Cross selling opportunities with clients across all our other disciplines in house.
- Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, equipment sizing, relay coordination, and electrical studies.
- Communicate and coordinate project activities with clients, internal partners, and other stakeholders.
- Registered Engineer (Electrical, Structural or Civil)
- 5 years of Substation design experience
- Consultant mindset to seek to understand client interests through interaction and communication with project leaders.
- Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, NEMA, IEEE and ANSI
- Flexibility to work outside regular working hours
- Willingness to occasionally travel (as required) for business needs
- Confident communicator
- Detail-oriented and proactive
- Team player with a positive attitude/client service mentality
- Strong ability to gather, interpret and convey technical information
- Strong desire to grow and build a power delivery practice in Colorado and across the firm.
Kimley-Horn has been recognized 15 times as one of the "Top Companies to Work For".
Why Kimley-Horn:
We are a full service consulting firm that provides a wide range of instrastructure and land devleopment planning and engineering services to public and private clients. Though we have over 7,000 employees in over 100 offices, we pride ourselves on our small company, servant leadership feel. We our committed to producing high quality plans and service to our clients and our quality is only as good as the people behind it - that's why we recruit passionate, hard-working and proactive employees. By joining Kimley-Horn, you'll be joining a firm whose core values and core purpose are more than just words on paper - they form the basis of our culture that yielded us continued success since 1967.
Salary Range:
- $80-130k
