General Engineer (Energy)

Location: Hybrid in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, United States. The position may require extended hours, including storm and other energy delivery emergency coverage.

Annual salary: $92,000–$126,500. Eligible positions may receive a 15% annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 200 energy company serving more than 10.7 million customers through six energy companies, including ComEd.

What you will do

• Provide operational analysis and support for transmission, distribution, and substation automatic operations and system faults.
• Provide immediate fault location information for 69kV-and-above line operations, critical 34kV lines, and 34kV operations where load is down.
• Review protective relay event records, relay targets, equipment operations, and SCADA Historian data to determine fault types and evaluate protection performance.
• Analyze protection system failures, identify root causes, and provide guidance to operations, field testing, transmission and substation teams, and asset management.
• Generate corrective maintenance work requests and support programs addressing systematic equipment abnormalities.
• Perform CAPE/CYME fault studies, validate system models, support power quality and claims investigations, and use FALLS lightning data to assess event causes.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or a Professional Engineer license issued by the state of practice.
• 4–7 years of professional engineering experience, subject to applicable experience reductions for a master's degree or PE license.
• Ability to analyze complex electrical and mechanical systems and apply engineering theory, designs, standards, codes, and problem-solving methods.
• Knowledge of complex field test equipment and engineering analysis software.
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal, written, oral communication, presentation, report-generation, and technical-writing skills.
• Working knowledge of analysis tools such as CYMDIST, PSS/E, Python, PLS-CAD, Pole Foreman, Power BI, or similar software.

Nice to have

• Graduate degree or graduate-level work in Engineering, Business Administration, or Project Management.
• Engineer-in-Training certification and/or Professional Engineer license.
• Experience leading employees or contractors during commissioning of electrical systems and equipment.

Culture & Benefits

• Purpose-driven work focused on energy transformation, safety, innovation, integrity, and community service.
• 401(k) matching and annual company contribution.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid time off, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, and parental, maternity, and bonding leave options.
• Tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance, fitness reimbursement, wellbeing programs, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Referral bonus program and opportunities for career growth and community impact.