Manager - Transmission Engineering

Atwell, LLC is a bold leader in the consulting, engineering, and construction services industry, delivering a broad range of creative solutions to clients in the real estate & land development, and energy markets. We have a strong national presence and a diverse, award-winning project portfolio. Atwell is a privately owned company, with 2,000+ passionate team members across 75+ locations and growing!

Atwell, LLC is a proud recipient of the following 2025
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• Ten consecutive years in a row as a “Best Place to Work” by Zweig Group (#11)
• Recognized as #70 in the ENR Top 500 Design Firms, ranked in every region
• Recognized in Crain's “Fast 50” as one of the fastest-growing companies (#14)
• Recognized as the 2025 ENR Design Firm of the year for the southeastern US

The Manager - Transmission leads teams of engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals responsible for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of overhead transmission and related transmission line engineering scopes. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload and resource planning, operational management, and project-delivery support to ensure appropriate project coverage and consistent achievement of scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and client objectives.

In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in regard to the essential functions of the job below.

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting transmission projects.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of transmission engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
• Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
• Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate training, mentoring, and work assignments.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project-performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
• Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor team level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
• Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
• Drive improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee the planning, coordination, and detailed engineering and design of overhead transmission and related distribution-line projects from small to large scale.
• Oversee development and review of design packages, including plan and profile drawings, pole-assembly details, pole grounding and guying details, steel framing details, structure loading diagrams, structure design and fabrication details, foundation design, construction details, and supporting calculation packages.
• Provide or coordinate technical and QA/QC reviews of engineering calculations, models, drawings, specifications, reports, and construction deliverables to support quality, accuracy, constructability, and compliance.
• Ensure work reflects applicable utility and client requirements, engineering standards, structural-design principles, material requirements, and construction practices.
• Provide technical guidance and training to engineers and technical staff and coordinate work across engineering, design, field, project-management, client, and contractor stakeholders.
• Identify, address, and elevate technical, constructability, quality, coordination, and project-delivery concerns to support timely resolution and project continuity.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality…