Civil Site Lead, Power Delivery
Listed on 2026-02-28
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Engineering
Civil Engineering
- Legal Entity: AECOM Technical Services Inc
- Business Line:
Energy - Work Location Model:
Hybrid - Primary
Location:
US - Charlotte, NC - 6000 Fairview R - Compensation: USD 110,000 - USD 160,000 - yearly
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Job DescriptionAECOM is hiring for a Civil Site Lead, Power Delivery with a primary focus on Transmission and Substation projects to support our growing Energy Business Line.
For this role,AECOM offers the freedom and flexibility to work remotely and/or be located at a variety of Energy offices located in multiple locations across the United States.
Our team provides a wide range of site civil services across electrical transmission and distribution (OH/UG) power systems, and substations. These services include grading, drainage, stormwater management, SWPP, fencing, SESC, site plans and geotechnical design. We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to develop within and further the technical skills we bring to our new and existing client base. Qualified candidates will be expected to lead discipline work for projects, perform responsible engineering, and support the project manager on project schedules, budgets, and deliverables in all aspects of site civil work.
The responsibilities of this role also include, but may not be limited to, the following:
- Lead and manage all civil work at substation and transmission line sites, ensuring compliance with approved drawings, specifications and construction schedules
- Create and supervise earthwork, grading, drainage systems, access roads, cable trenches and foundations (equipment, controls buildings and towers/poles) and to substation and transmission lines.
- Review, interpret and create civil design drawings, technical documents, report discrepancies and provide practical solutions.
- Manage site surveys to include (geotechnical and ground/LIDAR) to assist with determination of transmission line routes and substation layouts.
- Review and approve civil construction methodologies, work plans and method statements submitted by contractors.
- Identify and mitigate site issues such as geotechnical conditions, access and environmental constraints and constructability challenges by providing timely technical support.
- Coordination closely with electrical, protection, commissioning, planning and project management to resolve interface and constructability issues.
- Interact with customer’s internal engineers and technical experts on a day-to-day basis.
- Develop and maintain professional relationships with clients
- Provide technical leadership to site civil engineers, inspectors, assign tasks, review work and mentor team members.
- Fully versed with and can check and review the work sequence, general content and the methods used to generate specifications for the calculations as well as the approval, revision, retention and storage of calculations
- Assists with the developing task and effort estimates for proposal support
- Support project commissioning and hand over by ensuring that all site civil work is completed safely and to specification.
- Understands and assists with the planning and scheduling of engineering tasks within the site civil discipline
- Works to maintain positive working relationships with peers
- Occasional travel required to other AECOM locations and Client…
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