Engineer - Transmission Line

SUMMARY:

Provide transmission line design, engineering, technical support, and oversight to a transmission engineering and design team for the purpose of delivering safe, cost-effective, and quality engineering and design services. Provide technical competency and direction on complex engineering and technical problems for transmission line projects, to include renewable energy interconnections as well as grid modernization opportunities.

The incumbent is expected to lead discipline work for projects, perform responsible charge engineering duties, and manage project schedules and budgets. The incumbent will also support proposal development and project cost estimating.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under minimum supervision in the area of power transmission and substations, the incumbent will provide:

Engineering/technical expertise and guidance in the identification, analysis, and resolution of problems.

Effective planning, organizing, estimating, scheduling, and monitoring of work activities.

Thorough, timely, and accurate technical reports, correspondence, documentation, calculations, and sketches.

Continuous improvement of job-related engineering, technical and professional knowledge, skills, and performance.

Effective oral and written communication skills.

Should be able to understand and create transmission line drawing packages.

Support the company's goals and represent the company positively and professionally.

Interact with customer’s internal engineers and technical personnel on a day-to-day basis.

Develop and maintain professional relationships with customers.

Monitor deliverables, schedules, and present solutions to the client.

Performotherdutiesasassignedbymanagement.

COMPLEXITYOFWORK:

Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

RELATIONSHIPOUTSIDEWORKGROUP:

Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None

QUALIFICATIONS:Toperformthisjobsuccessfully,anindividualmustbeableto performeachessential duty satisfactorily.

Therequirementslistedbelowarerepresentativeoftheknowledge,skill,and/orability required.

Reasonableaccommodationsmaybemadetoenableindividualswithdisabilitiestoperformthe essential functions.

REGULAR ATTENDANCEis required.

EDUCATIONand/orEXPERIENCE

Required

A Bachelor’sdegreefroma four-yearcollegeor

University in Engineering.

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

Experience

5-7

Year(s) Experience as an Engineer with the electrical industry in the field of power delivery.

CERTIFICATIONS,LICENSES,REGISTRATIONS:

Prefer Professional Engineering (PE) license

ON-THE-JOB TRAINING:

As needed for the job and employee development.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

A. Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, operational procedures, etc.

B. Ability to write simple correspondence.

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

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

A. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret spread sheets.

B. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.

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

REASONINGABILITY:

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 solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

OTHERSKILLSANDABILITIES:

• Understanding of basic engineering theories and principles.
• Understanding of basic practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations.
• Ability to work alone or with limited supervision.
• Ability to deal with a variety of…