Electrical Engineer

Location: Spokane, Washington * Type: Contract * Job #7900 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Electrical Engineer position focuses on providing field engineering and project support for substation construction projects. The role involves testing and energizing communications and control equipment in high-voltage substations, radio stations, and control centers, while also recommending modifications to existing installations. The Electrical Engineer will coordinate various phases of substation construction, ensuring the quality and functionality of new equipment, and will play a key role in commissioning essential infrastructure modifications and additions to existing installations across the company's systems in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. This full-time position is located in Spokane, WA. Pay Rate: $29.41 - $42.02 Benefits: * Paid holidays: 11 * PTO: Starting at 10 days * Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) * EAP: Employee Assistance Program * Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) * Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks Responsibilities: * Under the guidance of a senior commissioning engineer or technician, perform testing of substation equipment, primarily power circuit breakers, transformers, and static capacitors. * This testing involves verification of CT/PT ratio, CT polarity, transformer impedance, power factor for transformers, timing of power circuit breakers, and insulation voltage withstand tests. * With instruction and guidance from the lead engineer, perform testing of Substation Control equipment including Protective Relaying, SCADA, microwave radio, Transfer Trip, and PLC's (Programmable Logic Controllers). * With instruction and guidance from the lead engineer, support the design, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems by checking rack wiring and cables in company facilities. * Operate computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks under the direction of a Lead Engineer. * Gather information for Lead Engineer to create electrical drawings, reports, and calculations to support the engineering solutions for electrical systems. * Assist lead engineer with coordinating construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, or testing activities to maintain compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements. * With assistance and approval by the Lead Engineer, perform detailed calculations to compute and establish construction, and installation standards and specifications. * Assist lead engineer with Inspection of completed installations and verification of operations to maintain conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards. * Perform troubleshooting and provide on-site technical support to craft/customer personnel in the field, as directed. * Work with design staff during engineering phase to understand design philosophy and provide field information/valid requirements. * Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles/practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields. * With oversight and guidance from manager / lead engineer, facilitate projects on site, including requesting outages through outage coordinator To view the full job description,

Created: 2024-11-05