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NV5

Senior Substation Engineer

NV5

Sr. Substation Engineer providing technical support for high voltage substation projects at NV5.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Prepare conceptual designs and execution plans
  • Engineering/project cost estimates and schedules
  • Perform and document quality reviews for other engineers and designers.
  • Prepare construction drawings, documents, calculations, and studies for medium and high voltage substation projects.
  • Responsible for technical delivery of power delivery engineering projects or tasks.
  • Prepare calculations, studies, and reports for substation and power systems projects meeting internal and client standards and requirements.
  • Apply engineering design principles and practices including formulas.
  • Work and coordinate with small multi-discipline (Civil, Structural, Physical, P&C, Transmission Line) project teams to execute substation projects.
  • Responsible for providing weekly updates to Sr. team leaders on milestone progress, estimated completion dates including percent completion of activities and supporting information to monitor project progress.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years of experience in the Substation/Power Delivery field.
  • Experience with high voltage substation design (12kV through 500kV) activities such as preparing one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, panel layouts, AC/DC schematics and wiring diagrams, physical layouts, electrical elevations, plans (equipment, grounding, and raceway), and bills of materials including selection of non-standard equipment.
  • Ability to interpret and apply standards including IEEE, IEC, NESC, and client standards.
  • Strong preference for those with excellent written and verbal communication, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, great organizational skills, proactive and forward-thinking individuals.
  • Experience with power system calculations (AC station service, DC battery sizing, and Voltage Drop/Cable Selection) is a plus.
  • Experience with relay settings is a plus.
  • Knowledge of substation physical equipment is a plus.
  • Knowledge of Protection and Controls design is a must.
  • B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
  • PE license is a must.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • medical
  • dental
  • life insurance
  • PTO
  • 401(k)
  • professional development/advancement opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools
high voltage substation designone-line diagramsthree-line diagramspanel layoutsAC/DC schematicswiring diagramsphysical layoutspower system calculationsrelay settingsProtection and Controls design
Soft Skills
written communicationverbal communicationanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsorganizational skillsproactiveforward-thinking
Certifications
B.S. Degree in Electrical EngineeringPE license