Are you ready to be a technology pioneer? Oil and gas factories 3000 meters underwater, heavy locomotive traction motors, electric vehicle chargers that deliver 100kw in 30 minutes . . . you’ll do ground-breaking, innovative work that will touch the lives of millions. A better world begins with you. TasksABB is seeking a Senior Project Lead Engineer to engineer, coordinate, and execute medium-voltage and high-voltage Air Insulated Switchgear (AIS) and Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) substation projects in the 34.5–550 kV range (future possibility up to 800kV) with an emphasis on project safety, cost, quality, and reliability. You’ll work as part of our Power Systems team, which serves utility, industrial, and commercial customers with products and services to help distribute electricity efficiently and reliably, maintain power quality, and control and manage electrical networks. Typical duties/responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: • Manage and lead all engineering activities, both in-house and outsourced, during the proposal, design, and construction stages of substation projects with strict adherence to the project contract. • Support proposal efforts by introducing and promoting innovation, cost saving ideas, and value-added solutions to the overall system design concept. • Conduct on-site assessments and evaluations of existing equipment, steel structures, foundations, etc., in so called “brown field” substation projects. • Provide expertise and support to the proposal and project teams in validating sub-contractor bids, and in negotiating sub-contracts for electrical substation and switchyard projects • Conform ABB Bid packages with Customer Project Documents. • Review customer Requests for Proposal/Quotation (RFPs/RFQs), and ABB’s proposals to ensure conformance with the bid package. • Identify and clarify technical ambiguities and conflicts in proposals documents. • Identify potential or probable risk during construction and installation. • Develop mitigation strategies for identified risks. • Work with the proposal team to ensure that the sub-contractor scope of work is clearly defined, that contract Terms & Conditions include appropriate flow downs, and that risks are properly allocated between ABB and the sub-contractors. • Analyze sub-contractor bid responses for inconsistencies, oversights, and mistakes. • Lead sub-contractor bid reviews to resolve bid response inconsistencies, oversights, and mistakes. • Provide cost recommendations to the proposal team based on the bid review analysis. • Notify the Director of Engineering and the Project Manager of any difficulties encountered in the engineering and design that may adversely impact safety, reliability, quality, cost, or schedule of the ABB project deliverables, and provide recommendations for solutions. • Prepare, update, and support the project execution engineering activities in the schedule, with emphases on on-time delivery, quality of deliverables, and project costs. • Develop the Design Criteria and the Document Deliverables list for the project. • Lead the development of single-line diagrams, layout drawings, raceway systems, grounding systems, station service, and bills of materials for substation design packages. • Utilize knowledge of the National Electrical Safety Code to ensure that designs comply with the required safety clearances. • Perform technical, cost savings, and constructability reviews of design packages from internal engineering, outsourced sub-contractor engineering, and equipment factories. • Generate equipment specifications, monitor vendor technical compliance, and witness factory acceptance testing. • Provide substation project management support, including managing engineering scope according to technical contracts, equipment procurement, developing change orders, and maintaining project schedules. • Adhere to ABB Power Systems * Substations quality processes and document control procedures to ensure design documents are complete and accurate. • Provide construction, installation, and commissioning support. RequirementsBasic Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering. • 8 years of technical, commercial, and construction experience in high-voltage substation engineering. Preferred Qualifications: • Professional Engineering certification. • GIS substation Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects. • Basic knowledge of applicable American National Standards Institute​ standards. • Experience with computer-aided design software such as Autocad and/or Microstation. • Knowledge of Microsoft Office suites and Lotus Notes. • Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with ABB, Sub-Contractor, and customer personnel in order to successfully collaborate, coordinate, and resolve project-related activities and issues. • Ability to lead project teams and provide guidance to less experienced engineers. • Good conversation and writing skills as well as normal tact and courtesy. • Strong experience with both outdoor and indoor substation applications. • Solid understanding of the necessary building infrastructure to support GIS (e.g. wall penetrations, embedded steel supports, overhead cranes, maintenance access, SF6 reclaimers, etc.). • 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 termination applications. • Experience in various design calculations, like grounding and shielding, rigid bus calculation, battery and charger sizing, alternating and direct current auxiliary systems, voltage drop calculation, sag and tension calculation, input for substation tower and equipment support structure design. • Experience in evaluation of power system study, insulation coordination study, harmonic analyses and capacitor bank sizing, etc. • Experience with protection single-lines, GIS Local Control Cabinet (LCC) schematics, protection and telecommunication interfaces, review of control and protection drawings, CT sizing, and relay setting/coordination. • Expert knowledge of the benefits and strengths of GIS vs. AIS substations as they relate to reliability, space savings, safety, maintenance, security, aesthetics, life-cycle costs, etc. • Ability to travel up to 30%, both domestically and internationally. Additional informationEqual Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at ABB ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf or http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/poster.cfm. As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, applicants may request to review the Affirmative Action Plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. * 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762. 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