Design Engineer

Summary

Dashiell Corporation is seeking a Design Engineer to focus on substation engineering design. The role involves creating design documents, performing engineering calculations, and applying engineering standards while working closely with project teams.

Responsibilities

• Work within a project team to create all design documents and drawings for a project, including creating wiring diagrams from schematics, generating bills of materials, and applying field mark-ups of project as-built drawings with minimal supervision
• Perform engineering support tasks such as relay burden, lighting, load flow, and short circuit calculations with minimal supervision
• Apply engineering application software to complete engineering tasks such as ground grid design, relay coordination, transformer sizing, and load flow and short circuit studies with minimal supervision
• Review project schedules and work with a project engineer to ensure projects remain on schedule
• Apply engineering standards including NEC, NESC, IEEE, and ANSI
• Properly use the document management system
• Apply corporate standard engineering practices
• Supervise project activities
• Communicate and coordinate project activities with project engineer, customer representatives, and others as needed
• Spend time at job sites to gain hands-on knowledge and additional training in substation construction and design
• Take personal responsibility for the quality and accuracy of his/her work
• Bring potential project-related problems and possible solutions to the attention of the responsible party
• Travel out of town for short periods of time as required by projects and assignments
• Perform special projects and complete other duties as assigned or requested

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree, from an accredited university
• Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 1 year of experience in substation engineering design
• Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry
• Experience in application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above
• Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems
• Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling
• Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
• Knowledge and understanding of three-phase power systems
• Knowledge and understanding of per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components
• Knowledge and understanding of substation components and their functions
• Knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a project
• Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, IEEE, and ANSI
• Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and email software
• Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, vendors, clients, etc
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Relay coordination experience

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree, from an accredited university
• Experience in substation design; successful candidates will have at least 1 year of experience in substation engineering design
• Familiarity with electrical relays currently utilized in the electric power utility industry
• Experience in application of relays and metering in an electrical substation at 138kV and above
• Experience in the design of electrical schematics for relay applications and control systems
• Experience in the design of connection drawings and cabling
• Strong knowledge of AC/DC fundamentals
• Knowledge and understanding of three-phase power systems
• Knowledge and understanding of per-unit mathematics and symmetrical components
• Knowledge and understanding of substation components and their functions
• Knowledge of design documents and drawings necessary to complete a project
• Knowledge of engineering standards including NEC, NESC, IEEE, and ANSI
• Knowledge of common word processing, spreadsheet, and email software
• Ability to communicate effectively with co-workers, vendors, clients, etc
• Ability to work in a team environment

Nice to Haves

• Relay coordination experience

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Long term disability insurance
• Employee assistance plan at no cost to the employee
• Choice of traditional PPO or one of two HDHPs, with corresponding FSA or HSA
• Dental
• Vision
• Supplemental life insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Group accident insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• A 401(k) with immediate vesting