Overview
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 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
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.
Perform acceptance, maintenance, troubleshooting, functional, and commissioning testing of:
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.
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.
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 3-5 years of field experience in substation commissioning, panel and equipment checkout, relay calibration, protection and control testing, troubleshooting, or 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 follow and apply 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.
Team and Project 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 Field Engineer role is an experienced technical position within the Electrical Power Services organization and serves as a development path toward Senior Field Engineer, Lead Field Engineer, Project Manager, or other technical and operational roles.
