As an employee-owned company, Black & Veatch is a leader in sustainable infrastructure and engineering. We are seeking a Substation Automation Engineer - Grid Modernization to lead the transition of IEC 61850-based digital and virtual substations from pilot to production, shaping real-world grid modernization outcomes. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in engineering and a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
Requirements
- Develop SCL engineering artifacts including ICD, CID, and SCD files, datasets, logical node mappings, reporting and control blocks, and GOOSE publications and subscriptions.
- Configure and validate MMS, GOOSE, and SV messaging for protection, automation, monitoring, and SCADA applications.
- Design and document station-bus and process-bus network architectures using PRP/HSR, VLANs, QoS, multicast management, and traffic segmentation practices.
- Develop PTP-based time-synchronization architectures including grandmaster, boundary, and transparent clock configurations and incorporate timing considerations into the system design.
- Integrate multi-vendor IEDs with protection settings and logic, coordinating measurements, controls, alarms, and event data with SCADA and HMI systems.
- Incorporate cybersecurity principles into system architecture, including authentication, role-based access control, network segmentation, secure communications, and device hardening.
- Develop and configure virtualized protection, HMI, gateway/RTU, and related substation applications on platforms including VMware ESXi with vCenter, vSAN, and NSX; Red Hat KVM or OpenShift Virtualization; and SEAPATH's real-time, high-availability hypervisor platform designed to run virtualized protection, automation, and control workloads with deterministic performance and PTP-synchronized operation on industrial servers meeting IEC 61850-3 and IEEE 1613 criteria.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- 401K match
- Benefits that start day 1
- Flexible work schedules
- Paid vacation and holiday time
- Sick time
- Dependent sick time
- Company-matched 401k plan
- Adoption reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vendor discounts
- Employment referral program
- AD&D insurance
- Pre-taxed accounts
- Voluntary legal plan
- The B&V Credit Union
