Principal Engineer – Substation Protection & Control

🕒 June 30

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Qualus

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1001 - 5000 employees

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 Seed Round on 2022-03

Construction • Logistics • Manufacturing

Qualus is a leading pure-play power services firm and innovator at the forefront of the energy transition and transformation, with differentiated capabilities across grid modernization, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The firm partners with utilities, commercial, industrial, data center, and government clients, and renewable and energy storage developers, offering comprehensive solutions through boutique and integrated advisory, planning, engineering, digital solutions, program management, and specialized field services. Qualus also provides software and technology enabled services and develops breakthrough solutions for critical power industry challenges such as distributed and variable resource integration, emergency management, and secure data exchange.

📋 Description

• Act as Qualus’ Protection & Control Subject Matter Expert, providing technical governance across multiple projects and programs • Set and uphold protection, control, and metering philosophy, standards, and best practices for high-voltage substations • Serve as Principal Engineer or Technical Authority on complex, high-risk, or non-standard projects, providing final technical approval and direction • Review and approve protection planning, philosophy, and application documents • Review and approve one-lines, schematics, logic diagrams, panel layouts, and wiring diagrams • Oversee protection coordination studies and relay settings for utility transmission systems • Chair or participate in senior-level design reviews, hazard and risk assessments, and near-miss investigations • Support Factory Acceptance Tests, Site Acceptance Tests, and critical field inspections • Advise project teams on construction sequencing, outage planning, and commissioning strategy • Participate in client technical, Safety by Design, and constructability review meetings • Provide technical oversight for project scopes, feasibility studies, cost estimates, and definition-phase deliverables • Support Business Development with technical strategy, execution approaches, and risk assessments • Act as a primary technical escalation point for clients, internal teams, and external partners • Mentor senior and junior engineers • Contribute to continuous improvement of P&C standards, tools, and engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 20+ years of utility-focused protection, control, and metering engineering experience, with demonstrated system-level responsibility • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university • Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada, or eligibility to obtain • Recognized expertise in substation protection philosophy, including transmission line, transformer, bus, and feeder protection • Extensive experience reviewing and approving detailed P&C design drawings and technical deliverables • Experience performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high-voltage transmission systems • Hands-on knowledge of ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM, and SEL / GE relay families • Practical experience with substation construction, commissioning, outage planning, and operational interfaces • Proven ability to provide technical judgment on non standard, complex, or first of kind applications • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience on EPC projects and familiarity with utility maintenance and operational practices are considered strong assets • Demonstrated capability to mentor

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage • Life Insurance • Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage • Retirement Savings Plans, including employer matching where applicable • Flexible Spending and/or Health Spending Accounts • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) • Parental Leave • Paid Time Off • Company Holidays