HDR Engineering is looking for a Substation Project Engineer to join our growing and nationally ranked team of Power Delivery professionals in our Rapid City, South Dakota office. The primary duties of the Substation Project Engineer include physical substation, protection, and control engineering for High Voltage Electric Utility projects, 12kV through 500kV. Projects range in size, complexity, and voltage class from small distribution equipment upgrades to large transmission substation projects across the globe. **Working under the direction of Project Manager(s), your role will encompass the following:** - Understand physical substation design 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. - Understand protection and control design including panel arrangements, one lines/single lines, three lines, AC/DC schematics, equipment wiring and relay panel wiring. - Prepare 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. - Ability to work independently. - Direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise efforts of less-experienced EIT's and/or Designers. - Support preparing scopes, schedules, and budgets, and ensure that schedules and budgets are met. - Perform other duties as needed. **Preferred Qualifications** - Masters degree in Engineering - A minimum of 3 years experience in project execution within substation design - Previous experience with an engineering consulting firm *LI-BC1 **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** - Bachelor's degree in Engineering - Professional Engineer (PE) 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