
Junior Substation Primary Engineer
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Job overview
The Junior Substation Primary Engineer develops electrical designs for high-voltage substation and FACTS projects, including design criteria, diagrams, layouts, grounding designs, calculations, equipment specifications, and bills of materials. The role collaborates with project, tender, marketing, and customer teams to deliver engineering work on schedule and address technical risks. It also supports customer meetings, project sites, and special engineering assignments, with approximately 20% travel.
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A Snapshot of Your Day
Join Siemens Energy as a Primary Substation Engineer and turn high-voltage substation and FACTS project requirements into clear, reliable electrical designs. You will develop project design criteria, one-line diagrams, layouts, grounding designs, calculations, equipment specifications, and detailed bills of materials. You will collaborate with project, tender, marketing, and customer teams to keep engineering deliverables on schedule and solve issues that could affect safety, reliability, cost, or timing. Bring your technical judgment, communication skills, and hands-on design experience to support customer meetings, project sites, and special engineering assignments.
How You’ll Make an Impact
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You will develop project design criteria, main one-line diagrams, and station auxiliary one-line diagrams for high-voltage substation and FACTS projects.
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You will create substation and switchyard general arrangement, layout, elevation, grounding, trench, and conduit design drawings.
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You will perform cable ampacity, grounding, lightning, illumination, station auxiliary load, and electrical engineering calculations.
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You will prepare equipment specifications, detailed bills of materials, and conceptual designs for pricing purposes.
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You will review manufacturer documentation and develop engineering execution plans that support project schedules.
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You will support marketing and project teams in customer meetings, identify risks to safety, reliability, cost, and schedule, and provide practical technical solutions.
What You Bring
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You have an Electrical Engineering degree; Electronics or Mechanical Engineering degrees may be considered if your experience aligns with high-voltage substations or FACTS projects.
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A Master’s in Electrical Engineering and a Professional Engineering license is preferred.
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You bring 3 or more years of experience focused on primary electrical design for high-voltage substations or FACTS projects.
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You have knowledge of ANSI standards; IEC standards knowledge is a plus.
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You have experience with equipment typically used in substations, and familiarity with AutoCAD, MicroStation, and Revit is a plus.
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You are flexible to travel locally and on occasion internationally for customer meetings and project sites, with approximate travel of 20%.
About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid! The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology .
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With +100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Rewards/Benefits
Here are examples of the rewards and benefits Siemens Energy offers:
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Opportunities to work with a global team
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Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
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Medical benefits
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Remote/Flexible work
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Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave
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Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform
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Access to a variety of employee resource groups
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Siemens Energy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, transgender, sex stereotyping, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, and other categories protected by federal, state or local
law.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,133 open Substation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- North Carolina median$134–222K/yr41 salary ranges
- US median$50–60/hr31 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 52 open Substation Engineer jobs in North Carolina and 1,133 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
- CDM Smith13 open
- Sargent & Lundy12 open
- Black & Veatch9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Substation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 8 years, across 1,051 postings).
- Education
- 629 of the 1,133 open Substation Engineer jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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