General Engineer - Testing & Commissioning

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.