About the role

  • Senior High Voltage Electrical Engineer focusing on high-voltage substation systems at Hargrove. Involves design, analysis, and mentoring junior engineers in a team environment.

Responsibilities

  • Perform physical design of electrical substations in accordance with applicable codes, standards, and client requirements
  • General arrangement drawings
  • Equipment, electrical, and control building layouts
  • Elevation views
  • Cable trench design
  • Equipment grounding and ground grids
  • Lightning protection systems
  • Conduit and cable tray drawings
  • AC and DC power systems
  • Area lighting systems
  • Bills of Materials
  • Perform electrical calculations, studies, and analysis
  • Touch and step voltage analysis
  • Substation grounding calculations
  • Pre- and post-energization harmonic studies
  • Short circuit studies
  • Mechanical force calculations on bus bars due to fault currents
  • Load flow and reactive power flow analysis
  • Harmonic filter analysis
  • NERC compliance analysis
  • Protective relay coordination
  • Transient analysis
  • Slack-span calculations for transmission line spans
  • Corona performance studies
  • Develop equipment and material specifications for outdoor switchyard equipment with operating voltages up to 345kV
  • Create procurement specifications and design scopes for engineered electrical equipment
  • Review, integrate, and manage vendor drawings and technical data
  • Coordinate with vendors to ensure timely and quality delivery of drawings, materials, and equipment per project schedules
  • Complete conceptual and preliminary designs for planning and estimating purposes
  • Prepare supporting documentation for procurement, construction, and operations/maintenance activities
  • Participate in and/or lead client meetings and job site visits to gather and communicate engineering data
  • Follow Hargrove’s QA/QC program to ensure compliance across all design packages
  • Mentor and support the development of less experienced engineers and designers in substation design

Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
  • Professional Engineer (PE) license required
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in substation physical design
  • Proven experience with high-voltage systems up to 345kV
  • Strong document management, organization, and quality control skills
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Preferred Software Experience: AutoCAD and/or AutoCAD Electrical
  • Bentley MicroStation
  • ETAP, SKM PowerTools, or ASPEN OneLiner
  • CYMCAP
  • PLS-CADD (or similar transmission line analysis software)
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Benefits

  • paid holidays
  • personal paid time off
  • medical insurance
  • dental insurance
  • vision insurance
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • other benefits

Job title

Senior High Voltage Electrical Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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