Electrical Engineer (Substations)

Your Job

As an Electrical Engineer (Substations) at DEPCOM Power, you will support the engineering design and development of substation physical layout and design packages as part of utility-scale Solar and Battery Energy Storage (BESS) projects.

You will be responsible for all aspects of physical substation engineering-including layout optimization, bus design, grounding, lightning protection, and associated studies and calculations.

This is a technical position that plays a critical role in enabling DEPCOM's in house substation engineering model by delivering high-quality, cost-effective, and constructible substation designs.

Our Team

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services.

Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

What You Will Do

Substation Physical Design


* Support the creation of physical layout drawings, including plan, elevation, section, and detail views for high-voltage substations.


* Develop physical design criteria and specifications for substation structures, equipment foundations, bus work, conductor sizing, and cable trenching.


* Perform substation physical calculations: bus and cable ampacity, ground grid sizing, lightning protection layout, lighting, rigid bus, conduit/cable fill, conductor tensioning/sag, and clearance studies, harmonic resonance analysis, insulation coordination, transient over voltage studies, and emt studies.


* Collaborate with Civil and Structural engineers on the mechanical design aspects of the major equipment.

Design Development & Drawing Packages


* Produce complete drawing packages from 30% conceptual design to Issued for Construction (IFC).


* Coordinate with civil, protection & controls, and SCADA teams for integrated substation design.


* Review vendor submittals for high-voltage equipment and ensure alignment with design standards and constructability goals.

Engineering Studies & Analysis


* Support and/or perform grounding (CDEGS, WinIGS)


* Conduct lightning protection studies for substation environments.


* Collaborate on load flow, short circuit, and insulation coordination studies for substation projects.

Standards, Quality, and Compliance


* Ensure substation physical designs comply with internal standards, NEC, NESC, IEEE, and applicable utility interconnection requirements.


* Develop and maintain standard templates, design libraries, and specification documents to streamline substation engineering workflows.

Collaboration & Field Support


* Support procurement by developing technical equipment specifications for transformers, breakers, and steel structures.


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