Senior Engineer – Substation Protection & Control

🕒 June 30

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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

• Provide technical leadership to engineers and designers delivering protection, control, and metering systems for high-voltage substations • Serve as Technical Lead on assigned projects, guiding designs from conceptual planning through construction and commissioning • Develop and review protection planning and application documents • Develop and review one-lines, schematics, panel layouts, and wiring diagrams • Perform protection coordination studies and relay settings for utility transmission systems • Lead engineering design reviews, factory acceptance testing, and field inspections • Support construction, outage planning, and commissioning activities • Participate in client technical, Safety by Design, and constructability review meetings • Prepare or review project scopes, feasibility studies, estimates, and definition-phase deliverables • Collaborate with the Business Development team on proposals and estimates • Act as a technical point of contact for clients and external partners • Mentor and develop junior engineers while contributing to continuous improvement of P&C standards and practices

🎯 Requirements

• 8–15 years of utility-focused protection, control, and metering engineering experience • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from a recognized university • Eligibility for (or current) Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration in Canada (U.S. PE considered an asset) • Strong experience in P&C detailed design drawings and substation protection philosophy development • Experience performing protection coordination studies and relay settings for high-voltage transmission systems • Hands-on experience with relay software such as ASPEN, CAPE, EasyPower, SKM, and relay platforms from SEL and GE • Practical knowledge of substation construction, commissioning, and outage planning • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience on EPC projects, and familiarity with utility maintenance and operational practices, are considered strong assets

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life Insurance • Short and Long-Term Disability • 401(k) match • Flexible Spending Accounts • EAP • Parental Leave • Paid time off • Holidays