Senior Substation Physical Engineer
- Houston, United States
Posted 24 days ago
About the role
CVR Engineering is looking to hire a Senior Substation Physical Engineer to join our growing team!
Benefits Include:
- Competitive Wages
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.
- Paid Time Off: Including vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays.
- Retirement Plan: 401(k) with company contributions to help you plan for your future.
- Professional Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement.
At CVR, a Senior Engineer independently develops, designs, and analyzes electrical power systems and substations. In addition to leading the design team, this engineer provides high-level technical oversight and serves as the primary escalation point for complex decisions, collaborating with the VP of Engineering while supporting constructors, subcontractors, vendors, suppliers, and clients.
Responsibilities:
- Creates designs independently.
- Produces conceptual designs and associated information.
- Provides technical guidance to engineers, designers and drafters.
- Serves as technical lead to the design team, with the role evolving into full people management responsibilities (performance feedback, mentoring, workload planning).
- Specifies major equipment such as generators, transformers, circuit breakers and switchgear.
- Controls quality of specified equipment and design packages.
- Supervises production of technical drawings such as one-line diagrams, protection and control schematics, interconnection drawings, equipment arrangement plans, section views, grounding plans, conduit plans, cable tray plans and all associated installation details.
- Performs electrical studies such as power flow, short-circuit, device evaluation, device coordination, ground grid analysis, lightning protection analysis, and arc-flash hazard assessment.
- Acts as a company representative in client-facing engagements, contributing to project scoping, proposals, and technical discussions. Partners with the VP of Engineering during complex or sensitive conversations, while managing communication with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
- Takes ownership and responsibility with each project.
Qualifications:
- BSEE from ABET approved university.
- 10+ years experience.
- Licensed as a professional engineer.
- NCEES record a plus.
- Participation in professional societies, particularly IEEE.
- Thorough understanding of industry standards and guidelines including ANSI, IEEE, NEMA, NEC, NESC, and others.
- Understanding constructability of design, field concepts, practices, and procedures.