Substation Automation Engineer – Grid Modernization
Black & Veatch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Overland Park • Kansas • Oregon • United States
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About the role
- Lead the transition of IEC 61850‑based digital and virtual substations from pilot to production
- Design and standardize secure, vendor‑agnostic substation automation architectures
- Serve as a technical leader and subject‑matter expert, influencing system architecture, best practices, and emerging standards
- Collaborate with utilities, technology partners, and industry groups to help define the future of protection, automation, and control
- Develop SCL engineering artifacts including ICD, CID, and SCD files
- Configure and validate MMS, GOOSE, and SV messaging for protection, automation, monitoring, and SCADA applications
- Design and document station-bus and process-bus network architectures
- Integrate multi-vendor IEDs with protection settings and logic
- Incorporate cybersecurity principles into system architecture
- Develop and configure virtualized protection, HMI, gateway/RTU, and related substation applications
- Contribute to, or develop toward contributing to, IEEE and IEC standards and collaborative initiatives
Requirements
- Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from a recognized accredited program
- Minimum of 5 years related work experience
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks for operational technology environments
- Interest or participation in IEEE and IEC standards development related to IEC 61850, time synchronization, digital substations, and cybersecurity
- Experience deploying or supporting virtualized protection, automation, and control applications on VMware ESXi/vCenter/vSAN/NSX, Red Hat KVM or OpenShift Virtualization
- Experience deploying virtualized substation workloads on industrial servers certified to IEC 618503 and IEEE 1613
- Familiarity with vPAC architectural principles and emerging practices for hosting protection, automation, and control systems on virtualized platforms
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- 401K match and benefits that start day 1
- Hybrid environment allows balance between work and personal life
- Flexible work schedules
- Paid vacation and holiday time
- Sick time and dependent sick time
- Adoption reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vendor discounts
- Employment referral program
- AD&D insurance
- Pre-taxed accounts
- Voluntary legal plan
- B&V Credit Union
- Performance-based bonus program
- 100 percent ESOP-owned company
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Hard Skills & Tools
IEC 61850SCL engineeringMMS messagingGOOSE messagingSV messagingsubstation automationcybersecurity principlesvirtualized protectionHMI configurationnetwork architecture design
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationinfluencecommunication
Certifications
bachelor's degree in engineering