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This position reports to:
Electrical Engineering Manager__
Your role and responsibilities
ABB is seeking a Senior Lead Project Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and oversee the successful execution of multidisciplinary electrical engineering projects from concept through commissioning. As the Lead Electrical Engineer on assigned projects, you will coordinate engineering activities across multiple disciplines, ensure technical excellence, manage engineering scope and deliverables, and serve as the primary technical interface for customers, project managers, and internal stakeholders.
The work model for the role is: Hybrid #LI-Hybrid
This role is contributing to the Automation Energy Industries division in Houston, TX.
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Lead and support engineering projects, ensuring successful delivery through effective technical leadership, coordination, and adherence to project scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
- Develop, review, and approve electrical engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with project requirements, applicable codes, industry standards, and ABB engineering practices.
- Lead customer technical meetings, design reviews, and interdisciplinary engineering coordination meetings.
- Manage engineering scope, technical risks, engineering schedules, and change management activities in collaboration with Project Management.
- Support factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, and startup activities as required.
- Coordinate and provide technical oversight of multi-discipline vendors and subcontractors, ensuring alignment with project requirements, engineering standards, schedules, and overall project objectives.
- Support proposal development, engineering estimates, technical risk assessments, and engineering execution planning.
Additional tasks with varying scope depending on experience level:
- Perform and review power system studies (e.g., short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, load flow) to support protection design and validate system performance.
- Create and review substation and electrical building integration design packages and follow those projects from the conceptual stage to construction completion.
- Develop and review protection and control system designs, including relay selection, protection philosophies, settings development, configuration, and coordination.
- Design/review/implementation of power management systems (PMS).
Our team dynamics
Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.
Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
- 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary engineering projects.
- Extensive experience in at least two of the following technical areas:
- Power system studies and associated software (ETAP, SKM, PSCAD, EasyPower)
- Substation and electrical building design.
- Protection and control system design, including relay applications, settings, and integration.
- Industrial automation systems, including power management systems (PMS), SCADA, or distributed control systems (DCS).
- Strong understanding of relevant industry standards and codes (IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ANSI, IEC, or equivalent as applicable).
- Demonstrated experience serving as the Lead Electrical Engineer or Engineering Lead on complex engineering projects.
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical execution across multiple concurrent projects.
- Excellent technical problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance within the team.
- Professional Engineering designation (PE) preferred.
What's in it for you?
Working at ABB offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across the full spectrum of power system engineering. Our group actively engages in substation design, protection and controls engineering, power system studies, and the design and implementation of power management systems. Being part of this team allows engineers to collaborate across multiple disciplines, contribute to complex and impactful projects, and develop a well-rounded understanding of modern power infrastructure up to 69kV.
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More about us
The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university
- 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering with experience leading multidisciplinary projects
- Experience with power system studies and associated software (ETAP, SKM, PSCAD, EasyPower)
- Substation and electrical building design experience
- Protection and control system design experience including relay selection, settings, and integration
- Experience with industrial automation systems including power management systems (PMS), SCADA, or DCS
- Strong understanding of industry standards and codes (IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ANSI, IEC)
- Demonstrated experience serving as Lead Electrical Engineer or Engineering Lead on complex projects
- Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical execution
- Excellent technical problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
- Support for factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), commissioning, and startup activities
- Professional Engineering (PE) designation
ABB Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and disability and life insurance included. Immediate eligibility in some roles reinforces the sense of dependable core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, sabbaticals, and, in some cases, 25 days of PTO. Flexible scheduling and remote-work options add to perceived time-off and flexibility value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as robust, including a 401(k) with company contributions or matching and, in some cases, profit sharing or pension savings. Stock purchase/share acquisition programs complement longer-term savings options.
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