Short company description

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone – uplifting communities, improving access and sustaining our planet.
We’re committed to managing our business with the upmost responsibility and to always strive for better — be that reducing emissions, creating social value or diversifying our senior leadership and workforce.
We understand both the urgency of the challenges facing our society and our responsibility to act in an impactful and enduring way. We’re leading the change towards a more sustainable and equitable future, partnering with those who want to make a positive difference in the world.
We’re listening to clients and the communities we serve in order to improve lives and livelihoods, and to create sustainable legacies for generations to come.
Thinking without limits is what keeps us at the vanguard. Ideas have no borders, and this ethos is embedded in our culture. The full scope of our global expertise is available to anyone who needs it, wherever they are based.
We’re trusted advisors — planners, designers, engineers, consultants and program and construction managers — delivering professional services spanning cities, transportation, buildings, water, new energy, and the environment. Working throughout the project lifecycle, we’re one team driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.
Our History
AECOM launched when a handful of employees from design and engineering companies shared a dream of creating an industry-leading firm dedicated to delivering a better world.
We became an independent company formed by the merger of five entities. While our official founding was in 1990, many of our predecessor firms had distinguished histories dating back more than 120 years.
Since then, more than 50 companies have joined us and, in 2007, we became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.

Requirements

- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience: Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in substation secondary engineering, with at least 1 year in a technical leadership or supervisory capacity.
Required Technical Skills:
- Advanced understanding of secondary systems design including:
- Protection relays, control panels, and interlocking schemes
- Station service design and AC/DC distribution
- Communication networks and protocols (IEC 61850, DNP3, Modbus, etc.)
- Experience in full lifecycle execution of EPC/Design-Build substation projects.
- Hands-on experience with engineering tools like AutoCAD Electrical, ETAP, SEL, DIGSI, ABB relay tools.
- Expertise in relay settings, logic development, and coordination studies.
- Familiarity with NERC PRC compliance, cybersecurity requirements, and substation physical and logical zoning.
Leadership and Soft Skills:
- Proven ability to lead engineering teams and manage workload delegation.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.
- Ability to conduct training, knowledge sharing, and mentorship for developing engineers.
- Adept at handling multidisciplinary coordination and conflict resolution.
Nice to Have:
- Field commissioning experience with major relay OEMs (SEL, ABB, GE, Siemens).
- Experience in digital substation design.
- Knowledge of control equipment including PLCs, RTUs, IEDs, and protocol converters.
- Familiarity with SCADA integration.
- Professional Engineering (PE) license or eligibility preferred.

Responsibilities

Here is what you will do:
1. Design, Development, and Implementation:
- Lead the design of secondary circuits and protection & control systems for HV substations (69kV to 500kV+).
- Coordinate and develop schematics, wiring diagrams, logic diagrams, cable schedules, and panel layouts.
- Design and configure protective relays (SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB), automation controllers (PLCs/RTUs), and protocol gateways.
- Ensure robust integration of SCADA, IEC 61850, DNP3, and Modbus protocols within T&D automation systems.
- Collaborate with primary system engineers to align interface requirements and ensure electrical coordination.
- Oversee hardware and I/O design for control panels and interface systems.
2. Leadership & Project Management:
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and task assignments to a team of junior and mid-level electrical engineers.
- Assist Project Managers and Lead Engineers in developing technical proposals, design budgets, and project schedules.
- Monitor project execution and quality, ensuring that deliverables meet client expectations and internal standards.
- Lead interdisciplinary coordination meetings and design reviews.
- Act as Technical Lead on multi-discipline projects, representing the secondary systems team internally and externally.
3. Testing, Commissioning & Support:
- Develop and oversee factory acceptance testing (FAT) and site acceptance testing (SAT) procedures for control and protection systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve design issues during commissioning and energization phases.
- Interface with construction and field engineering teams to ensure the seamless execution of installation and testing activities.
- Review and analyze relay event records and SCADA data post-commissioning to validate system performance.
4. Documentation & Quality Assurance:
- Generate and review comprehensive documentation packages, including:
- Protection & Control (P&C) Basis of Design
- Settings files and coordination studies
- SCADA points lists and communication network architecture
- QA/QC checklists for engineering deliverables
- Perform peer reviews and enforce quality assurance standards across engineering outputs.
- Ensure documentation complies with NERC, IEEE, IEC, and client-specific requirements.
5. Technical Innovation and Standards Compliance:
- Stay current on advancements in digital substations, IEC standards, cybersecurity practices, and substation automation.
- Standardize and optimize secondary design templates, libraries, and workflows.
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve system reliability and engineering efficiency.

Other info

At AECOM, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity
Our Freedom to Grow hybrid working philosophy is the cornerstone of our success as a business – supporting a culture of flexibility, trust and performance at AECOM.

Benefits

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