Job Description
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
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
AC and DC schematics
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.
Strong knowledge of:
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.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Cranberry Township, PA |
| Industry | Business Services - Other |
| Salary | $60.60–$72 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1909 |
| Website | http://www.abm.com/ |
About Company
ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.
We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.
Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.
Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.
With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.
With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.
ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)
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