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Substation Engineer

Posted June 23, 2026
Full Time $80,000 - $120,000 / year

Job Overview

Founded in 1973, ISG is a multi-disciplinary, employee-owned firm providing architecture, engineering, environmental, and planning services to communities across the nation. Guided by our mission: simplify solutions and passionately design the future; we partner with clients to turn complex challenges into meaningful, lasting impact.

We are seeking a Substation Engineer will be responsible for the design and procurement for substation projects. May serve as a technical specialist for substation projects.

ISG employee owners are motivated by a shared goal to stretch the limits of great design and positively influence each other, our clients, and the communities we serve. Within our Energy Business Unit, ISG’s Power Group and MEQ team play a vital role in delivering resilient infrastructure solutions, supporting projects and clients local to Cleveland, OH.

Essential Duties

  • Serve as Project Engineer on routine to complex, single-discipline projects and routine to complex multi-discipline projects.
  • Coordinate work with other disciplines.
  • Will interface with clients and vendors.
  • Able to create One Line Diagram, Three-line Diagrams, AC and DC schematics and wiring diagrams, and Protection & Control Diagrams for High Voltage Substations.
  • Coordinates all aspects of project document completion within the company and externally with clients and other design professionals.
  • Checks the progress of work and alerts the Project Manager to needed changes to the scope or other services.
  • Performs necessary field measurements independently.
  • Works with code officials and other design professionals when an interpretation or exception to the building code and client standards is required.
  • Promotes the use of and participates in the development of company design and production standards.
  • Assumes responsibility for engineering within his/her discipline for routine projects.
  • Performs and may direct construction support/management on routine and simple projects.
  • May direct construction observation of others on simple projects.
  • Assist drafting and design staff as a resource for design questions.
  • Manage & Coordinate drafters and designers in drafting required drawings for substation projects.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree required.
  • 3+ years of previous consulting or substation engineering/design experience required.
  • EIT certification preferred.
  • May be working towards PE License certification.

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