You will assess realistic design and study scenarios and produce clear written technical findings.
Details
Approximately 10 to 20 hours per week initially.
Immediate start.
Contract and Payment Terms
You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
Responsibilities
Review tasks across substation design, transmission design, and generation interconnection: circuit and control design, switchgear and protection, single-line diagrams, and power distribution.
Check engineering assumptions, calculations, code and standards use, and equipment data.
Flag ambiguity, missing constraints, and unrealistic deliverables.
Produce clear written findings.
Required skills
Recent hands-on experience as a power systems professional in one or more of: substation design, transmission design, or generation interconnection. This is mandatory.
Minimum 1 year of relevant industry experience.
Circuit design depth: protection and controls, switchgear, power distribution, and the associated calculations.
Experience at an EPC contractor, utility, transmission owner, power generation developer, ISO/RTO, or owner's engineering group.
Your resume should clearly show relevant power systems experience.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
Compensation details
$70 per hour.
Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
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