electrical design engineer - protection & control panels

522481

18-sep-2026

smart infrastructure

we are looking for an experienced electrical design engineer – protection & control panels. This position will be based at qro, mx.

- design electrical, mechanical and system drawings of protection and control panels in accordance with customer specifications and guidelines, using design software and drawing tools.
- develop logic diagrams and protection schemes based on technical drawings and further customer specifications.
- prepare (fat & sat) factory & site acceptance test procedures for protection systems projects.
- collaborate with a team of professionals to develop electrical systems that meet industry standards, and customer requirements.
- be a technical leader in projects or lead other team members in project activities.
- be one of our primary customer interfaces, including trouble shooting and commissioning support.
- provide technical support throughout the project lifecycle, including design, implementation, and commissioning phases.
- occasionally provide technical support to the sales team with the development of project scope of work, sales estimates, and proposals.

you’ll win us over by having the following qualifications:

basic qualifications:

- bachelor’s degree in electrical/ electronic / electromechanical engineering.
- a minimum of 5 years of direct experience in electrical design in the power systems protection and control engineering field.
- experience working as a technical lead engineer for electrical panel design projects.
- experience working with autocad, autocad electrical, or aucotec engineering base software.
- experience producing technical documentation for protection and control systems for substations such as logic diagrams, sequences of operations, fds, and test procedures.
- ability to read and fully understand dc and ac schematics,



three- and one-line diagrams for medium and/or high voltage substations systems.
- advanced knowledge of microsoft visio tools.
- advanced knowledge of microsoft office.
- applied knowledge of transmission and distribution protection relays; capable of designing and specifying them; capable of approving and supervising the designs of other engineers.
- advanced knowledge of siemens, ge, sel, abb, and others relay/automation products and associated software.
- communication network technologies, including design and hardware configuration.
- communication protocols experience such as iec61850 (mms/goose/smv), dnp, modbus, iec103, iec101, iec104, profinet, profibus.
- knowledge of ansi standards related to protection and electrical panel design.
- automation or protection commissioning experience.
- factory or site testing experience in protection and automation systems
- around 5% of travel is expected depending on project assignments and requirements.
- advanced english level (able to have technical and business conversations)

preferred qualifications:

- knowledge of protection and automation systems of electrical systems.
- demonstrated knowledge of ul 508a requirements for protection and automation control panels.
- applied knowledge of medium and high voltage protection
- a.medium voltage protection schemes (including design of transfer schemes and reverse interlocking schemes)
- b.generator protection
- c.line differential and distance protection
- experience in designing protection and automation panels for utilities.
- professional engineer license (pe).
- experience working with engineering base (eb) software-aucotec and the general engineering library (gel) database for design.
- experience working with microstation software.
- experience working with eplan.
- knowledge of ansi and iec standards related to protection and electrical panel design.

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📌 Electrical design engineer - protection & control panels (Santiago)
🏢 Siemens Mobility
📍 Santiago