Lead Engineer - Electrical

Position Overview

Power Your Future with Qualus as a Lead Electrical Engineer in our Program Management Orginization.

The Engineering Project Lead is a highly skilled, hands-on technical leader who will lead complex electrical utility projects. This role leads the day-to-day execution of projects focusing on transmission, distribution equipment, and relay protection upgrades, ensuring they're delivered efficiently and to the highest standards. The incumbent must possess advanced technical knowledge and extensive experience in both project leadership and field operations to help guide projects to successful completion.

This role may act as a primary client interface, from initial assessments and proposals to handling client communication and ensuring project compliance.

• Lead successful execution of electrical utility projects focusing on transmission, distribution equipment, and relay protection upgrades.

• Act as a client interface, from initial assessment and qualification of project opportunities to handling correspondence, inquiries, and submittals. This includes conducting site walkthroughs to define scope and revisions, as well as assisting with or generating proposals.

• Ensure project success through detailed planning and compliance, which involves reviewing and briefing stakeholders on all project specifications, instructions, and contractual requirements, as well as organizing bids.

• Drive project execution and resource coordination by maintaining and overseeing schedules, collaborating with the Operations Team to secure necessary equipment and labor, and assisting with onsite work and material procurement as needed.
• Participate in regular Production/Client Meetings to ensure alignment and address ongoing project needs.
• Electrical Utility Project Management and Planning:
  Manage electrical utility projects, including transmission, distribution equipment, and relay protection upgrades. This encompasses feeder and transformer load analysis, outage submittals, area outage coordination, and project sequencing, ensuring proper planning of outages.
• Hands-On Proficiency:
  Proficient with hand tools and mechanically inclined, willing to work in substation environments.
• Testing & Design Review:
  Experienced with major test equipment software. Capable of initial review of P&C (Protection & Control) drawings to identify mistakes and scope issues and serve as a primary contact for technical questions on designs, applications, or testing.
• Operational Coordination: material coordination, crew coordination (P&C and construction), and providing P&C crew oversight and support. This also involves coordinating with operations on high-profile jobs with potential risk and understanding/applying specific outage restrictions.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Effective Communication:
  Ability to communicate effectively with internal teams, clients, and regulatory counterparts in English (inclusive of reading and writing), due to the nature of safety-related materials, documentation, and interactions with clients.
• Client & Stakeholder Relations:
  Build productive relationships with customers, serving as a contact for questions and concerns. Act as an advocate for client operations and the organization as a whole.
• Information & Status Reporting:
  Effectively handle customer correspondence and submittals, including assisting with or generating proposals. Provide updates to client operations, client management, and engineering on project status.

Professional & Cognitive Skills

• Self-Management & Organization:
  Ability to prioritize and complete tasks, independently pursue objectives, and maintain efficiency without direct supervision. This includes defining plans, organizing activities, and effectively utilizing resources while demonstrating strong attention to detail.
• Problem Solving & Critical Thinking:
  Examine information, facts, and data to draw logical conclusions. Possesses the ability to carry out instructions and deal with problems involving multiple variables. Think under pressure and act prudently, especially concerning safety. Committed to developing alternative courses of action based on logical assumptions and information, resources considerations, constraints, and organizational values.
• Adaptability & Work Ethic:
  Possesses a strong work ethic, capable of independently resolving project issues. Strives for individual excellence by seeking challenges and self-development, demonstrating high levels of expertise, and showing commitment, self-confidence, and integrity

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from an ABET university or an Associate's/ AET degree, with an emphasis on power systems preferred
• Experience:
  
  5+ years’ experience in relay testing and commissioning in substations OR experience designing protection & control schemes.
• Other Knowledge:
  Proficient in computers, computer networks, and Android/iPhone app skills:
  Microsoft Office suite of software, mapping drive letters for server…