Overview
ABM Industries is seeking a Senior Field Engineer to join our Electrical Power Services team. This position serves as a senior technical field resource responsible for planning, leading, and performing commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, and startup activities for substation protection, control, automation, and associated electrical power systems.
The Senior Field Engineer independently evaluates complex protection and control systems, analyzes test results, resolves technical issues, develops recommendations, and provides technical leadership and mentorship to field service personnel.
This role supports safe project execution, technical quality, customer relationships, and operational excellence.
Pay: $72.00–$80.00 per hour
The 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
Responsibilities
Essential Functions
Interpret project scopes, specifications, drawings, schedules, and customer requirements to plan testing and commissioning activities.
Develop commissioning plans, test procedures, isolation plans, functional test plans, outage requirements, and resource schedules.
Independently perform and lead 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 advanced troubleshooting of substation relaying, control, communications, automation, and associated electrical equipment.
Analyze relay event records, oscillography, fault data, and sequence-of-events information to identify root causes and recommend corrective actions.
Prepare and review field reports, test documentation, deficiency reports, red-line drawings, and technical recommendations.
Lead assigned field activities and coordinate work with customers, project managers, engineers, contractors, and subcontractors.
Provide project technical support and mentorship to junior engineers, technicians, and field service personnel.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years of field experience in substation commissioning, panel and equipment checkout, relay calibration, protection and control testing, troubleshooting, and repair.
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 develop and execute testing procedures, commissioning plans, isolation plans, and functional test plans.
Preferred Qualifications
Associate degree or higher in Electrical Engineering Technology, Electrical Technology, Power Systems, Electronics, or a related field.
Experience with substation design, protection and control engineering, substation construction, utility operations, or SCADA integration.
Experience with relay platforms and software from manufacturers such as SEL, GE, Siemens, ABB/Hitachi Energy, or Basler.
NETA certification, engineering credential, OSHA 30, NFPA 70E, CPR/First Aid, or similar industry certification.
Leadership Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Physical Requirements
Ability to stand, walk, climb ladders, bend, kneel, crouch, and work in confined or restricted spaces.
Ability to work in substations, electrical rooms, industrial facilities, outdoor environments, and construction sites.
Ability to work extended hours, nights, weekends, holidays, outages, and emergency callouts when required.
Career Progression
The Senior Field Engineer role is an advanced technical position within the Electrical Power Services organization and serves as a development path toward Lead Field Engineer, Principal Field Engineer, Project Manager, Engineering Manager, Operations Manager, or other technical leadership roles.
