Substation Project Engineer

Substation Project Engineer

HDR, Inc.

United States, Missouri, Kansas City

Jun 04, 2025

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

HDR is looking for a Substation Project Engineer to join our growing and nationally ranked team of Power Delivery professionals.

In the role of Substation Project Engineer, we'll count on you to:

Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and ensure that schedules and budgets are met

Understanding, developing, and delivering physical substation designs including yard layouts, plans, sections and details, grounding, lightning protection, control building arrangements, interior and exterior raceways, auxiliary AC/DC power systems, and associated bills of material

Understanding, developing, and delivering protection and control designs including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring

Prepare electrical calculations for studies and reports (grounding, lighting protection, AC/DC load studies, etc.)

Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing

Coordinate design activities with other departments (Civil/Structural, Networks, Transmission Line, etc.)

Effectively communicate and coordinate project activities with manager, clients, and others as needed

Works independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers.

Conduct QA/QC on the work of other Engineers, Project Coordinators or Designers, or BIM Technicians as needed

Perform other duties as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Foundational expertise in high voltage substation design, including both physical and protection & controls design

A minimum of 3 years experience in project execution within the Power Delivery, Substation Sector

Previous experience with an engineering consulting firm

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE or P.Eng) license

Previous experience in project execution within the Power Market Sector.

Computer skills in Microsoft Office as well as standard Power Market Sector design software. (examples include PLS CAD, AutoCAD, Plant 3D, AutoPipe, and Revit)

An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.

Primary Location : United States-Missouri-Kansas City

Industry : Power

Schedule : Full-time

Employee Status : Regular

BusinessClass : Substation Engineering

Job Posting : Jun 2, 2025