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Location: Vancouver, WA Type: Contract Job #7565 Overview: ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. This Electrical Engineer role will provide hands-on support for substation construction projects across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. This position will act as a field engineer, performing tests and energizing communication and control equipment in high-voltage substations, radio stations and control centers, and also play a key role in recommending improvements and additions to existing company systems in these regions. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA. Pay rate: $30.50 - $43.58 Benefits: Paid holidays: 11 PTO: Starting at 10 days Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) EAP: Employee Assistance Program Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, DCA, LPFSA, HSA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer contributions - employer match up to 4%) Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks, Brio Health Responsibilities: Under the guidance of a senior commissioning engineer or technician, perform testing of substation equipment, primarily power circuit breakers, transformers, and static capacitors. This testing involves verification of CT/PT ratio, CT polarity, transformer impedance, power factor for transformers, timing of power circuit breakers, and insulation voltage withstand tests. With instruction and guidance from the lead engineer, perform testing of Substation Control equipment including Protective Relaying, SCADA, microwave radio, Transfer Trip, and PLC's (Programmable Logic Controllers). With instruction and guidance from the lead engineer, support the design, implementation, maintenance, and improvement of electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems by checking rack wiring and cables in facilities. Operate computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks under the direction of a Lead Engineer. Gather information for Lead Engineer to create electrical drawings, reports, and calculations to support the engineering solutions for electrical systems. Assist lead engineer with coordinating construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, or testing activities to maintain compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements. With assistance and approval by the Lead Engineer, perform detailed calculations to compute and establish construction, and installation standards and specifications. Assist lead engineer with Inspection of completed installations and verification of operations to maintain conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards. Perform troubleshooting and provide on-site technical support to craft/customer personnel in the field, as directed. Work with design staff during engineering phase to understand design philosophy and provide field information/valid requirements. Apply diversified knowledge of engineering principles/practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields. With oversight and guidance from manager / lead engineer, facilitate projects on site, including requesting outages through outage coordinator, and verifying that materials arrive on site. Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements. Share and disperse documents only to appropriate personnel (those with a Lawful Government Purpose (LGP) to know). Mark and maintain all official records in accordance with the Information Security (INFOSEC) and Information Governance & Lifecycle Management (IGLM) stand