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Milhouse Engineering and Construction

Engineering, construction, and program management services

Senior Substation Electrical Engineer

Power Systems EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA$152.3k - $186.1k /yrHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • A four-year bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from an ABET-accredited institution.
  • 13–20 years of protection and control or substation design engineering experience.
  • A Professional Engineer license is required.
  • Ability to produce high-quality work consistently and work independently.
  • Advanced presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.
  • Knowledge of applicable codes and standards, including IEEE and EIC codes and standards.
  • Familiarity with discipline-specific design software and design management systems.
  • Familiarity with grounding calculations.
  • Active participation in discipline-specific professional organizations such as IEEE.
  • Experience with power system studies such as short-circuit and coordination studies.
  • Experience preparing relay settings.
  • Understanding of computer-aided design software.
  • Ability to estimate, plan, and schedule substation projects.
  • Ability to support proposal activities.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, AutoCAD or MicroStation, and Revit.

Responsibilities

  • Lead protective system designs, physical layout designs, and calculations, and coordinate with other disciplines on substation projects.
  • Create electrical protection and control and/or physical layout design deliverables for substation projects, focusing on delivery of substation automation systems for high-voltage substations.
  • Work within multidisciplinary teams to develop efficient and reliable solutions for intricate substation projects.
  • Review design efforts as the team's quality lead to ensure alignment with client and company standards.
  • Apply client standards, guidelines, specifications, practices, procedures, and appropriate industry standards when preparing design drawings; coordinate design activities to ensure installation and operations comply with specifications, codes, and client requirements.
  • Deliver assigned projects on time, within budget, and within agreed scope.
  • Communicate and coordinate project activities with internal team members and build client relationships.
  • Design and deliver greenfield and brownfield high-voltage electrical substation projects.
  • Support development of protection and control one-line diagrams, AC/DC schematics, control panel layouts and wiring diagrams, station-service AC/DC distribution diagrams, bills of material, and cable schedules.
  • Lead the team's quality assurance efforts and create and enforce project quality plans.
  • Manage project subordinates and other project or discipline resources to meet quality, schedule, and budget requirements.
  • Prepare proposals, contract amendments, change-order documentation, and claim documentation.
  • Lead project resource teams assigned to support projects.
  • Maintain positive working relationships with clients and prime consultants.
  • Document scope, schedule, deliverables, and budgets.
  • Provide progress reports, project milestones, scope changes, budget forecasts and analyses, and schedule updates to the team.
  • Monitor project cost accounting, invoicing, and closeout.
  • Manage or lead several simultaneous projects.
  • Work with the team to ensure required deliverables are prepared, submitted, and tracked.
  • Coordinate with the finance group to confirm invoicing and timely receipt of payments.
  • Take charge of quality assurance and quality control on assigned projects.
  • Provide project status information to managers and the team.
  • Assist management as directed and support project execution as needed.

Desired Qualifications

  • Local utility agency experience is preferred.
  • Project management experience is preferred.
  • Distribution experience is a plus.

About the Company

Milhouse Engineering and Construction

Engineering, construction, and program management services

Milhouse Engineering and Construction provides engineering and construction services across civil, mechanical, electrical, structural, and environmental disciplines, along with construction and program management. Its work is delivered through project-based contracts that span from initial design to completion, with teams handling engineering, coordination, and on-site construction management. They also offer value-added services like snow and groundskeeping to address extra client needs. The company differentiates itself by serving a wide range of sectors (transportation, education, healthcare, commercial, industrial) across nine states, combining multi-disciplinary engineering with hands-on construction management and a focus on safety and sustainability to support complex projects and long-term client relationships. Milhouse’s goal is to improve communities by delivering safer, more reliable infrastructure and sustainable solutions that meet clients’ specific requirements.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Founded
2001

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