ABM Industries is seeking a Field Engineer to join our Electrical Power Services team. This position is responsible for performing commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and startup activities for substation protection, control, automation, and associated electrical power systems.
The Field Engineer performs assigned protection and control testing, evaluates test results, identifies technical issues, and develops recommendations with guidance from senior field personnel when required.
This role supports safe project execution, technical quality, customer relationships, and operational excellence.
Pay: $60.60-$72.00 per hourThe pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant's education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.
You may be eligible to participate in a Company incentive or bonus program.
Benefit Information: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM's benefits, visit ABM 2026 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management
- Interpret project scopes, specifications, drawings, schedules, and customer requirements to support testing and commissioning activities.
- Prepare and follow commissioning plans, test procedures, isolation plans, functional test plans, and outage requirements.
- Read and interpret substation drawings and documentation, including:
- Single-line and three-line diagrams
- Panel wiring and layout drawings
- Elementary, logic, and interconnection diagrams
- Protection and control drawings and construction documents
- Perform acceptance, maintenance, troubleshooting, functional, and commissioning testing of:
- Electromechanical, solid-state, and microprocessor-based protective relays
- Protection and control panels
- Circuit breakers, instrument transformers, and DC control systems
- SCADA, metering, alarms, controls, and automation systems
- Pilot protection, transfer-trip, fiber-optic, power-line carrier, and related communications equipment
- Verify relay voltage and current inputs, local and remote metering, alarms, controls, interlocks, function switches, trip circuits, and SCADA points.
- Perform relay calibration, secondary and primary injection testing, trip testing, end-to-end testing, functional testing, and integrated system testing.
- Commission new substations and additions or modifications to existing substations.
- Perform troubleshooting of substation relaying, control, communications, automation, and associated electrical equipment.
- Review relay event records, oscillography, fault data, and sequence-of-events information to help identify root causes and corrective actions.
- Prepare field reports, test documentation, deficiency reports, red-line drawings, and technical recommendations.
- Coordinate assigned field activities with senior field personnel, customers, project managers, engineers, contractors, and subcontractors.
- Provide technical support to technicians and other field service personnel within assigned areas of responsibility.
- Ensure compliance with company procedures, customer requirements, OSHA regulations, NFPA 70E requirements, and applicable industry standards.
- Support outages, startup activities, critical shutdowns, emergency response, and system energization activities.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 3-5 years of field experience in substation commissioning, panel and equipment checkout, relay calibration, protection and control testing, troubleshooting, or repair.
- Demonstrated ability to perform protection and control testing and troubleshooting with limited supervision.
- Three-phase AC power systems and DC control systems
- Power system protection and control schemes
- Protective relays, circuit breaker controls, and instrument transformers
- SCADA, metering, automation, and communications-assisted protection
- Ability to read and interpret one-line diagrams, schematics, wiring diagrams, elementary diagrams, logic diagrams, panel drawings, and construction documents.
- Experience using relay and power-system test equipment, associated software, wiring tools, and diagnostic instruments.
- Ability to follow and apply testing procedures, commissioning plans, isolation plans, and functional test plans.
- Ability to evaluate test results, identify abnormal conditions, and recommend corrective actions.
- Strong troubleshooting, planning, documentation, and technical communication skills.
- Ability to organize assigned field activities and make sound technical decisions within established procedures.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, including reading and writing, due to the safety-related nature of procedures and documentation.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Valid driver's license and acceptable driving record.
- Ability to travel up to 75% based on project and customer requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate degree or higher in Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical Technology, Power Systems, Electronics, or a related field.
- Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
- Dice Id: RESLBFEED
- Position Id: 21523_22258_170960
- Posted 6 days ago
