National Grid · 5 hours ago
Lead Engineer (Electrical Planning and Design), Electrical Engineering
Northborough, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $176K/yr
10+ years expNational Grid is a company dedicated to empowering people and providing meaningful work. They are seeking a Lead Engineer for Electrical Planning and Design to support the successful delivery of substation projects, including capital investment plans and interconnection projects, while leading a multi-disciplined engineering team and ensuring compliance with design standards.
DeliveryEnergyOil and Gas
Responsibilities
You will be a technical lead for varieties of substation projects supporting capital work portfolio. Facilitate leadership to a multi-disciplined engineering team and coordination with non-engineering stakeholders
You will be responsible for developing preliminary engineering scopes for projects including 15kV to 345kV substations working with other stakeholders
Review conceptual scopes and layout that are created for facility planning studies and feasibility check of the options
You will lead and oversee the substation design performed by internal designers or by external consultants
You will be mainly responsible for reviewing physical design drawings such as electrical arrangement plan view, elevation view, conduit design, ground grid connections and design, material list. You are also responsible to ensure necessary coordination of physical design with other engineering disciplines and their design such as site-civil design, structure design and protection and control design for the substation
Perform engineering calculations and studies as necessary to support project scope. These include but are not limited to ground grid design, lightning protection, AC and DC load calculation, bus calculation, etc
Conduct project meetings and facilitate all required communication with internal and external stakeholders. Offer on-site and off-site construction support
Perform QA/QC for all design packages with National Grid standards and specifications
Procurement of substation equipment (transformers, circuit breakers, CCVT, voltage regulators, switches, switchboard panels, etc.) including creating equipment specifications, vendor outreach, RFP, proposal evaluation and make recommendations, review vendor drawings, etc
Support Project Manager, Procurement, Estimating and Construction, Process Improvement and other corporate initiatives
Engage with onboarding of MSA consultant with RFP, proposal evaluation and award. Manage and work with MSA consultants ensuring compliance and technical adequacy against approved standards
Participate in incident analysis with identifying problems, investigation and engineering recommendations
Emergency storm support for power restoration
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology from an ABET accredited engineering program with an emphasis on Power Systems
10+ years of related work experience and knowledge of substation equipment, standards and code for substation design, type of substation projects and stakeholder coordination
Proficient Office 365 Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Word, etc.)
Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record
Ability to physically navigate in and around an electrical substation
Ability to describe consequences of non-contractual performance by suppliers or by National Grid and the bottom-line impact
Preferred
FE exam preferred. PE license is a plus
Familiarity or proficiency with ProCore, Power BI, Primavera or MS Project, Microstation, etc. (Knowledge or hands-on experience with CDEGS is plus.)
Company
National Grid
National Grid facilitates electricity and gas transmission system and focuses on delivering clean energy.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.01BKey Investors
NYSERDASEKStrategic Innovation Fund
2025-08-21Grant· $2M
2025-07-08Post Ipo Debt· $937.85M
2024-09-11Grant· $19.95M
Leadership Team
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Chief Executive Officer
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