Sr Engineer - Substation Operations in Des Moines, Iowa at BHE Renewables, LLC

Job Description: The Senior Engineer - Substation Operations serves as a technical expert responsible for advanced engineering design, asset management, and project leadership across BHE Renewables' substation and generation facilities. This role ensures safe, reliable, and compliant operation of critical infrastructure. The Senior Engineer performs complex engineering work and provides technical leadership and direction to engineers and cross-functional teams. This role leads major projects, ensures regulatory compliance, and applies Human Performance Improvement (HPI) principles to drive system reliability and risk reduction.
Responsibilities: Lead and optimize substation and generation maintenance programs, including asset management strategies, oil and bushing testing, commissioning, infrared inspections, relay testing, and compliance activities.
Lead documentation standard creation, update and review. Documentation includes substation engineering design, preventative maintenance, operation and testing standards, templates and procedures.
Provide full lifecycle project leadership for capital and O&M projects, including planning, engineering design, cost estimating, contracting, construction oversight, and financial performance monitoring.
Conduct advanced protective relay and other programmable substations and electric equipment device programming.
Lead risk identification, mitigation strategies, emergency response planning, and recovery initiatives.
Interact with programmable devices to ensure appropriate data capture setup and pull event records.
Perform event analysis including fault and event records and present findings to leadership and stakeholders.
Serve as a technical authority and mentor to other engineering staff.
Champion HPI practices by evaluating existing processes and implementing improvements to prevent and mitigate human error.
Stay informed of industry trends and emerging technologies relevant to BHE Renewables' operations.
Understand NERC CIP regulatory compliance requirements for BESS elements and support appropriate controls and testing.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: Five years of industry experience as a practicing engineer and Professional Engineer (PE) license required; or eight or more years of experience without PE.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited institution.
Advanced technical, analytical, and leadership skills.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects and influence cross-functional teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Up to 25% travel required. Valid driver's license required.

Job Info

Job Identification: 10005157

Job Category: Engineering

Posting Date: 2026-06-04

Apply Before: 2026-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Job Schedule: Full time

Locations: 1615 Locust St, Des Moines, IA, 50309, US

Business: BHE Renewables, LLC