Electrical Engineer 5 (Substation Design)

Job Description
This senior-level Electrical Engineering position requires,
• Senior level having full technical responsibility for interpreting, organizing, executing, budgeting and coordinating complex assignments
• Plans and develops projects concerned with unique or controversial problems which have an important effect on major CDM Smith programs
• Maintains liaison with individuals and units within or outside organization with responsibility for acting independently on technical matters pertaining to specialty field
• Supervision provided on essentially all administrative issues, with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits
• Representing CDM Smith in conferences to resolve important questions and to plan and coordinate work
• Acting as a mentor for Mid-level Engineers
• Understand and adherence to the CDM Smith Core values, Ethics & Code of professional conduct and familiar with compliance aspects. Understand and adherence to the Leadership Competence as defined by CDM Smith
• Actively participating or assisting in new business development by contributing to strategic planning, marketing, and business operations planning.
• Planning, developing, coordinating, and directing a large and important project or several small projects with many complex features
• Refining your project management skills Coordinating and reviewing the work of a small staff of engineers (typically 5 to 10)
• Visualizes and assumes responsibility for new business development activities within areas of expertise
• Requires the ability and expertise to use advanced techniques and the modification and extension of theories, precepts and practices of Electrical design resulting from progressive experience.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering
• 12+ minimum years of experience in detailed design for high voltage substation projects through 345kV including :-
• Protective relay schemes
• Relay Schematics and wiring diagrams
• Equipment specifications and selection
• Hardware specifications and selection
• Knowledge of NESC
• Experience with Supervising and coordinating the work of CADD Operators, technicians and others assisting in specific assignments and Review of 3D model developed in AutoCAD, Revit etc.,
• Preparation of Electrical one-line drawings, Site and building plan drawings to show the Electrical equipment layout.
• Coordination with other disciplines at different stages to identify the problems with the Design progress.
• Experience with Performing short circuit, coordination and arc flash studies using power systems analysis software (preferably SKM).
• Experience with leading medium to large scale electrical design projects preferably involving power distribution, lighting, communications, fire alarm, and security systems design.
• Experience with reviewing shop drawings and assisting with general construction services.
• Experience with developing the design criteria, specifications and standards
• Performing independently on all assignments with minimum technical/administrative instructions.
• Able to devise new approaches to problems encountered and coordinates various technical aspect of work.
• Able to plan, investigate, conduct work requiring judgement in the independent evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard techniques procedures and criteria.
• Able to participate to a limited degree in new business development in establishing and monitoring budgets to assess profitability.
• Able to get updated the ongoing changes in the field of Electrical engineering and motivate the junior level staff to get into the track.
• Able to perform project management function small and moderate sized projects.
• Able to plan, develop, coordinate and direct several large and important projects or a project of major scope and complexity; extent of responsibilities generally requires a few (3-5) subordinate supervisors or team leaders with at least one at level 5; directs work of a staff (typically 10-20) engineers/scientists and technicians, evaluates progress and results obtained and recommends major changes to achieve overall objectives
• Able to conceive, plan and conduct research in problem areas of considerable scope and complexity, problems must be approached through a series of complete and conceptually related studies, are difficult to define, require unconventional or novel approaches and sophisticated research techniques; may be assisted by other engineers/scientists or technicians.
• Able to serve as a technical specialist in the application of advanced theories, concepts, principles and processes for an assigned responsibility area such as subject matter, function, type of facility or equipment or product; keeps abreast of new methods and developments affecting CDM Smith in order to recommend changes to current programs or new programs warranted by such developments; may be assisted by other engineers/scientists or technicians
• Requires good communication skill and Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, MS Excel and MS Power Point)