Engineering Supervisor - Substation

Job Description

Provide supervisory and engineering/technical support to a substation electrical engineering and design team for the purpose of delivering safe, cost-effective, and quality engineering and design services. Incumbents will supervise direct reports including engineers and designers, CAD technicians and administrative personnel. This role includes both direct billable client work (project work) and administrative leadership support to the manager or director. The incumbent is expected to lead projects, perform responsible charge engineering duties, manage project schedules along with managing specific engineering and design business revenue and profitability goals.

Personnel responsibilities include carrying out such programs as training, performance appraisal, employee recruiting, succession planning and adherence to standards of conduct. Provide technical competency and direction on complex engineering and technical problems in the specific area of expertise for the management of engineering projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Complexity of Work:

Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

Relationship Outside Work Group:

Influences decisions of major nature. High degree of tact and diplomacy to obtain favorable decisions or maintain good will.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Manage a team of substation engineering and design professionals with direct supervisory responsibility.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regular attendance is required.

Education and/or

Experience:

Required A Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or University in Electrical or Civil Engineering (with a preference for Electrical Engineering) and experience equivalent to 7+ years in Engineering practice.

Required Engineering Degree awarded from a College of University that is accredited by ABET

Experience:

5-7 Year(s) Experience in Substation Engineering

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

Professional Engineer (P.E.) and an NCEES record

On-the-Job Training:

Significant experience at a professional level in electrical power system engineering related to designing utility transmission and distribution substations.

Language

Skills:

A. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.

B. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

C. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or the business community

Mathematical

Skills:

A. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plan and solid geometry and trigonometry.

B. Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plan and solid geometry and trigonometry.

C. Ability to compute rate, ratios, and percent and to draw and interpret spreadsheets

Reasoning Ability:

A. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

B. Ability to define problems collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

Other

Skills and Abilities:

Required:

Self-Motivated

Work independently

Team-Oriented

Customer Oriented

Able to manage multiple tasks and provide leadership to other team members.

Preferred:

• Skilled in principles of project management.
• NCEES and registration as a Professional Engineer in multiple states
• Experience in the electric utility industry.
• 8 - 10 years of electrical utility substation design experience (as an employee, contractor, or consultant) with a working knowledge of electrical substation design at voltage of 69kV and higher.
• Technical competency in all aspects of electric utility substation design including general arrangement and layout of the substation equipment; understanding of…