Engineering Manager - Power​/Utilities

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• Salary Range
  : $136K + - Commensurate (dependent on experience, education, and qualifications)
• Profit-Sharing Bonus
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  Semi-annual, performance-based (10% to 20% of salary)
• Day-One Benefits
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  Medical, Dental, Vision
• 401(k) with 4% match and immediate vesting
• PTO
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  Starting at 80 hours of vacation & 40 hours of sick time per year + 10 paid holidays
• Flexible Work Schedule
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  Every other Friday off
• Career Development
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  Advancement opportunities, tuition reimbursement
• Perks
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  Gym membership stipend, wellness program, fertility benefits, pet insurance, and more

The Distribution Engineering Manager is responsible for providing direction, coaching, supervision, and mentoring to a team of professional and technical staff within the Distribution Line Engineering Department.

Our experience means we have the capacity to manage and design concurrent large-scale transmission / distribution projects for one or more clients. Our engineering staff has designed hundreds of miles of overhead transmission and distribution lines for a variety of energy clients including investor-owned utilities, public utilities, municipalities, independent power producers, rural cooperatives, and industrial clients. We utilize the latest in design software tools to provide a thorough technical line design that assures the lowest cost design.

• Supervises a group of engineers, designers, drafters, and project support coordinators to successfully deliver Distribution line projects. Responsible for administering performance reviews and staff evaluations for direct reports
• Directs and oversees work of Design and Planning Engineers:
  • Conceptual routes, layouts, preliminary and detailed designs, and specifications for distribution lines
  • Construction Sketches, Plan and profile sheets, staking sheets, bills of materials, and permit drawings
  • Pole loading drawings, framing drawings, and construction drawings.
  • Pole Loading, Cable Pulling, and other design calculations
  • As-built revisions
  • Distribution System Planning projects, including construction work plan and long-range plan development
  • Distribution System Protection projects, including coordination studies and relay settings development
• Monitors and maintains staffing and utilization levels within the Distribution Line Engineering group to help ensure the successful realization of operations and project milestones and goals
• Maintains and develops a strong professional network of existing and potential customers, especially municipal and electric cooperative utilities in the state of Texas. Travels to client sites/field/vendor facilities as needed
• Performs quality reviews of engineering work for both internal assets and sub-contractors on assigned projects
• Manages the development of project proposals, bid preparation, project schedules, bill of materials, etc. for assigned projects

• Education
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  Bachelor’s Degree from an ABET-accredited university. PE Required, 2 Yr Addtl. Exp Accepted in Lieu of
• Experience
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  • 10+ years of Distribution line design and other related project execution experience
  • 5+ years of experience in the management and development of multi-discipline…