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:
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Field Engineer in Columbus at ABM Industries
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This position is listed as contract and able to be worked remotely. It was posted 4 days ago.