This Opportunity
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Design Studies Engineer - Technical
Director with an Electrical Studies emphasis for our Boise, Idaho office. Remote
candidates will also be considered for Clarkston, WA, Portland, OR, San Diego,
CA, Denver, CO, Salt Lake City, UT and Fort Worth, TX. Be involved in projects
with our Electrical Studies, SCADA, and Protection (ESSP) and be a part of a
growing organization that meets our clients' objectives and solves their
challenges.
The successful applicant will be responsible for successful completion of
assigned projects and for maintaining and improving client
relationships. Completion of these functions requires technical competence in
primary production roles as well as leadership competence in working with
clients and mentoring and supervising team members assigned to
projects. Assigned projects will include electrical studies for utility and
industrial/commercial clients. Systems to be analyzed will include conventional
and renewable generation facilities, substations, and transmission and
distribution systems.
The level of this engineer requires an individual who has
experience participating in the proposal writing process as well
as enjoying customer contact to assist in developing new opportunities for WSP.
This person must be able to independently manage with a strong conceptualization
ability, strong interpersonal communication, and organizational skills including
the capability to explain complex technical issues at a variety of levels to
decision-makers and project teams.
Your Impact:
Candidates for this role will have familiarity, experience, or possibly even
expertise with some of the items listed below. However, we are realistic in our
expectations of your professional experience, and do not expect you to have
expertise or experience in all of these areas. A willingness to learn in areas
where you do not have experience and to teach others in areas where you do have
experience is essential to being successful on our team.
Design Studies: substation grounding, corona and electric and magnetic
fields, insulation coordination (lightning, switching surge, and
contamination performance), transient (time domain) simulation, power quality
(harmonics, voltage flicker, over/under voltage, etc.), electromagnetic
frequency interference, motor starting, AC interference (transmission line
interaction with railroads and pipelines).
Applicable Software: CDEGS, ATP-EMTP, PSCAD, WinIGS, TFlash, COMSOL, CAFEP,
Polaris
Leadership: Coordinate, review and approve electrical infrastructure design
plans for mid-level and complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is
compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
Working knowledge or awareness of applicable industry practices outlined in
IEEE, IEC, ANSI, CIGRE, AMPP, EPRI or NERC standards and regulations for
design work.
Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds,
resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related
policies and procedures.
Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.
Who You Are:
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent experience).
12+ years of relevant post education experience as an electrical engineer
executing deliverables for Electrical Studies projects in power generation,
transmission, and distribution at a utility, industrial, or commercial scale.
Professional Engineering (PE) license or equivalent (multi-state preferred).
Advanced proficiency with electrical engineering principles,
practices, process, design/build, standard of care, and the application to
permitting and project work-related issues.
Works independently and provides guidance and leadership to mid-level
to senior level team or project members, with strict adherence to QA/QC.
Must be flexible to a variety of schedules to meet business needs and able to
prioritize responsibilities and quickly adapt to change.
Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.
Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by
WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Engineering.
Strong experience in managing the review and approval of documents and
discipline-specific deliverables, certifications, processes, and plans in a
multi-project environment is highly desirable.
Preference will be given to applicants with a proven history of completing
similar projects in a consulting environment
Preference is given to applicants with working knowledge and experience in
more than one of the three technical disciplines listed and with experience
using the applicable software packages for those disciplines
Preference is also given to applicants with experience in mentoring others
and in providing technical and commercial leadership in customer-focused
engineering projects
Preference is also given to applicants with experience in customer focused
engineering projects in the technical areas above
Disclaimer:
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and
financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include
coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement
savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental
leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance
at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations excluding Colorado): $139,800yr - $267,700yr
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith
believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful
applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to
internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right
to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and
offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not
related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or
federal law.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $163,800yr - $278,400yr
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith
believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of
Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge,
skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic
location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the
posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on
circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by
local, state, and/or federal law.
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