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This will include layouts, bus work, grounding, conduit, and equipment placement. ISG has partnered with utility and energy clients for decades, providing engineers the opportunity to build long-term careers while working on complex projects with ongoing demand. In this role you will ensure designs meet client(s), utility, and regulatory standards while optimizing for safety, reliability, and constructability. You will have the opportunity to mentor junior staff, review and approve deliverables, and serves as a primary client contact for resolving technical issues.\nThis position will work on transmission and distribution projects directly associated with FirstEnergy, one of ISG’s trusted and longstanding client partners.\nWithin our Energy Business Unit, ISG’s Power Group plays a vital role in delivering resilient infrastructure solutions, supporting projects and clients nationwide.\nWe operate as a one-profit-center firm and we work as one team across all offices, sharing resources, expertise, and opportunities to best serve our clients and support our employee owners. Regardless of where this position is posted, we encourage all qualified candidates from any ISG geography to apply.\n\nSimilar projects and initiatives you may contribute to as part of this role:\nSubstation Upgrades\nElectrical Substation Misoperated Line Terminal Improvements\n FAC-008 Facility Rating Projects\nEssential Duties\nDevelop and review complete physical design packages for high-voltage substations, including one-line and three-line diagrams, general arrangement (GA) drawings and section views, bus work layouts and equipment plans, grounding layouts and calculations per IEEE Std 80, conduit, trench, and cable routing plans, and engineering documents and bill of materials.\nEnsure compliance with utility, client, and regulatory standards (IEEE, ANSI, NEC, NESC, NFPA).\nApplies advanced engineering judgment to optimize substation layouts for safety, reliability, constructability, and cost efficiency.\nOversees integration of civil, structural, and protection and control 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