Project Engineer

Your role and responsibilities

• Support engineering projects, ensuring successful delivery through effective technical leadership, coordination, and adherence to project scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
• Complete assignments on small projects or portions of larger projects.
• Develop, review, and approve electrical engineering deliverables, ensuring compliance with project requirements, applicable codes, industry standards, and ABB engineering practices.
• Attend customer technical meetings, design reviews, and interdisciplinary engineering coordination meetings.
• Manage assigned 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.

Additional tasks with varying scope depending on experience level

• Perform power system studies (e.g., short circuit, protection coordination, arc flash, load flow) to support protection design and validate system performance.
• Create substation and electrical building integration design packages and follow those projects from the conceptual stage to construction completion.
• Develop protection and control system designs, including relay selection, protection philosophies, settings development, configuration, and coordination.
• Design/implementation of power management systems (PMS).

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
• 2+ years of experience in electrical engineering, with demonstrated success supporting multidisciplinary engineering projects.
• Experience in one 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.
• Strong understanding of relevant industry standards and codes (IEEE, NFPA, NEC, ANSI, IEC, or equivalent as applicable).
• Demonstrated experience serving as an Electrical Engineer low to medium complexity engineering projects.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate technical execution across multiple concurrent projects.
• Excellent technical problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Successful completion of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination with an interest in pursuing Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.
• You enjoy occasionally working in the field and traveling to customer and manufacturing sites to support project execution (approx. 25% travel).

What's in it for you

• We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence.
• You'll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that's tailored to your goals.
• Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger

Abb Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

• [excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
• Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on "Candidate/Guest" to
• 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
• P aid P arental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
• Vacation is provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions.
• Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.