WEC Energy Group

Electrical Engineer – Substations, Wind/Solar/Battery Storage

WEC Energy Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Milwaukee • Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, New York, South Dakota, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $66,898 - $152,615 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • This role will be focused on technical support and problem solving associated with the long term ownership of generator systems, substations, and balance of plant equipment for the Renewables O&M Engineering Team.
  • This engineering role will support and ensure the operational success of wind/solar/battery storage plant assets in the WEC Fleet.
  • Provide subject matter expertise and technical review for new plants to be added to our rapidly expanding renewable fleet.
  • Demonstrates ownership of assigned equipment.
  • Highly knowledgeable of design basis for a variety of systems.
  • Supplies advanced system and plant wide knowledge to troubleshoot and improve performance and reliability.
  • Utilizes performance monitoring tools and independently performs advanced calculations, tests and engineering analysis to develop recommendations to maintain and improve plant system and equipment performance, efficiency and reliability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Relevant experience with inverter-based power generation plants
  • Relevant experience with collector and interconnection substations
  • Engineering experience operating, maintaining, testing, commissioning, and/or troubleshooting any of the following areas: Substation medium and high voltage equipment, Medium voltage underground electrical distribution systems, Padmount step up transformers and switchgear, Overhead transmission and distribution systems, Protective relays and overcurrent devices, SCADA systems, power plant controllers and substation RTUs, Central and string PV inverters, Other balance of plant systems
  • Experience reviewing and using site drawings such as single line diagrams, schematics, communication network and fiber diagrams, collector systems and access roads layouts, racking and structural steel, foundations, and grading plans
  • Design experience with any of the above topics
  • Project management and/or lead engineering experience
  • Performance analytics and data visualization experience using MS Power BI, Excel, or similar software
  • Experience working across teams in setting standards for operation, maintenance, design, or other processes.
Benefits
  • We offer competitive pay and benefits to recognize your hard work and dedication.
  • Fulfillment careers where safety and well-being are paramount.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Electrical EngineeringInverter-based power generationSubstation equipmentMedium voltage distribution systemsPadmount transformersOverhead transmission systemsProtective relaysSCADA systemsPerformance analyticsData visualization
Soft skills
Problem solvingTechnical supportOwnershipCollaborationProject managementLeadership