Join ComEd in Libertyville, IL as a Testing and Commissioning field engineer working with transmission and distribution protection and control systems inside ComEd substations. This role offers a competitive salary range of $92,000 to $126,500 per year for eligible positions, plus performance-based pay and strong support for your health, wellbeing, and long-term growth.
What you’ll do
Testing and Commissioning engineers serve as a technical authority in the field, commissioning, maintaining, and troubleshooting protection and control systems in substations. The work supports safe operations, improves system performance, and helps enable upgrades that increase capacity.
- Commission, maintain, and troubleshoot transmission and distribution level protection and control systems inside ComEd substations
- Execute field testing and commissioning engineering activities for installation of new equipment
- Create commissioning plans, write livening procedures, and create and run test plans
- Analyze test results against expected values and use findings to guide next steps
- Troubleshoot and perform field investigations for malfunctioning power equipment, system events, and protective relaying misoperations
- Perform repairs and preventative maintenance on existing equipment and protection system components
- Provide preventive maintenance on protection system components and SCADA
- Support corrective maintenance to repair identified equipment issues
Substation work planning and cross-team support
- Provide leadership by directing and supporting substation maintenance and contractor crews on work tied to these systems
- Interface continually with Central T&S Engineering, Work Management, Project Management, Operations, Data Maintenance, and Substation Maintenance to support daily T&S work activities
- Play a critical role in substation outage and work planning
Engineering documentation, compliance, and program support
- Maintain engineering drawings
- Relay/SCADA database management
- Provide NERC/CIP audit support
- Support the engineering PM & CM maintenance programs
- Be a strong advocate of ComEd Safety culture
Salary and benefits
- Annual salary: varies based on candidate skills, qualifications, experience, and other factors: $92,000.00 to $126,500.00 per year
- Annual bonus for eligible positions: 15%
- 401(k) match and annual company contribution
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
- Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fitness reimbursement
- Referral bonus program
- And much more
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or Licensed Professional Engineer
- Ability to analyze and interpret complex electrical and mechanical systems
- Knowledge and ability to apply problem solving approaches and engineering theory
- Knowledge of engineering designs, principles and practices
- Knowledge of complex field test equipment
- 4 to 7 years of professional engineering experience
- Broad knowledge and experience with regulations, guides, standards, codes methods, practices, and advanced engineering principles needed for very complex or unique assignments
- Minimum of two related career experiences (changes in technical job responsibilities, which may or may not include a change in department) OR Engineer in Training OR 50% complete (by hours) with advanced technical degree, M.B.A., or Project Management Certification
- Master’s degree in engineering reduces the OJT experience requirement by 1 year
- License must be issued by the state in which you are practicing
- PE License reduces the OJT experience requirement by 1 year
Primary purpose: Front-line field engineering that commissions, maintains, and troubleshoots transmission and distribution protection and control systems inside ComEd substations, including protective relays, SCADA, substation automation, power and control equipment, fiber-optic, power line carrier, and revenue metering.
