Senior Electrical Engineer (Substations)

Your Job

A s a Senior 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 Solution 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



* Develop 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 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.

Protection and Control System Design



* Assist in designing protection schemes for high-voltage substations including line, transformer, bus, breaker failure, and overcurrent protection.


* Develop one-line diagrams, three-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, wiring diagrams, and relay logic.


* Assist in specifying and program protection relays (e.g., SEL, GE, ABB) in coordination with system studies.


* Assist in developing substation control systems including breaker control, status indication, alarms, and interlocking.

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.


* 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...