Senior Project Engineer (Houston, Texas)

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Your role and responsibilities

Work within the Electrification Solutions Group to manage the Engineering and support services for the integration of electrical equipment into E-Houses. This role requires meeting the established engineering objectives within approved costs and timescale limits. Candidate must have the technical experience to perform the successful engineering of large multimillion dollar projects involving low and medium voltage switchgear, motor control, drives, motors, and various electrical equipment in E-Houses while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction.

The work model for the role is: #LI-hybrid

This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions in Houston, TX, Lake Mary, FL or Mebane, NC.

 

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Acts as a technical lead and approves design deliverables. Works with the customer to shape and deliver solutions and seeks customer feedback to drive and deliver improvements. Maintain close contact with customers and project participants to identify and resolve issues of mutual concern and to seek opportunities for additional business. Ensure timely contract completion, customer satisfaction, and desired financial return.

• Plan, monitor, coordinate and execute complex engineering tasks including the technical and quality targets established by ABB, sub supplying vendors and the customer.

• Develop and manage an engineering project plan, design reviews and design approvals between ABB, sub supplying vendors, subcontractors, and the customer.

• Develop status reports and modify plans or schedules, as necessary, to ensure contract parameters are met.

• Monitor the performance of subcontractors to ensure they satisfactorily fulfill their commercial and technical supply commitments.

• Identify and pursue the resolution of problem areas likely to hinder the progress of work or payment of work completed to optimize the successful completion of and payment for project work

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience and skills.

• Functional team with more than 5 years relevant engineering experience in electrical power systems and project engineering.

• Strong knowledge of MV/LV switchgear, protections, controls, automation, and integration within Power Distribution Centers; familiarity with transformers, drives, motors, bus duct, cables, and associated equipment.

• Ability to design and calculate electrical systems for integrated Power Distribution Centers, including cable sizing, conduit fill, voltage drop, breaker sizing, and overall HV–LV distribution.

• Proficiency in creating, modifying, and reviewing electrical drawings (single-line, three-line, schematics, interconnections, wire lists) and validating vendor/customer designs, protection schemes, and metering.

• Working knowledge of IEEE/ANSI, NEMA, NETA, API, PIP, NEC/NESC standards and codes; capable of influencing senior stakeholders and customers, with basic understanding of battery storage, chargers, and UPS systems.

• This role requires some overnight travel will vary up to 30%.

• Candidates must have work authorization to work in the US.

What's in it for you

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

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• Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan. 

• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus

• Vision benefit

• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)

• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)

• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums

• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid

• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.

• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance

• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks

• Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions 

• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

• Time off

  ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

  More about us

  ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

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