Substation Design Manager

Job Description

Key responsibilities :

Electrical Engineer to design, coordinate and execute the medium-voltage and high-voltage Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) and Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation projects in the 22 kV-220kV range with an emphasis on project safety, cost, quality, and reliability Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide engineering services during the proposal, design, and construction stages of AIS and GIS substation projects, with strict adherence to the project contract.
2. Notify the project lead of any difficulties encountered in the engineering and design that may adversely impact safety, reliability, quality, cost, or schedule of the project deliverables, and provide recommendations for solutions.
3. Work with the project lead engineer to develop the Design Criteria and the Document Deliverables list for the project.
4. Work with the project lead engineer to develop single line diagrams, layout & section drawings, grounding systems and bills of materials specially for solar power plant of the substation design packages.
5. Perform technical, cost savings, and constructability reviews of electro-mechanical design packages from internal engineering, outsourced sub-contractor engineering, and equipment factories.
6. Generate equipment specifications, monitor vendor technical compliance, and witness factory acceptance testing as applicable.

Educational Qualifications-

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. min 5+ years of substation design engineering experience.

Experience-

Min 3+ years of detailed engineering substation design experience

Knowledge of Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, & Simulation software e.g. Grounding software CYMGRD, CDEGs, Grid Study PSSE, ETAP if any

Technical Competencies:

1. Experience in developing and reviewing construction-grade engineering packages (single line diagrams, layout & section drawings, raceway systems, grounding systems) is preferred
2. Experience in renewable energy (Solar & Wind) projects for performing substation studies and analyses, including rigid bus analyses, grounding analyses, corona calculations, illumination studies, lightning protection studies, and auxiliary power system studies is preferred.
3. Ability to develop equipment specifications and review vendor documents to ensure technical compliance.
4. Knowledge of three-phase and single-phase encapsulated GIS substations, including Gas Insulated Bus (GIB) and associated SF6 type terminations.
5. Experience with outdoor and indoor GIS applications.
6. Experience in high voltage power cable system design, including ampacity calculations, cable pulling design, cable vault layouts, cable restraint design, and GIS sealing end/air terminationapplications