Engineer - Physical Supervisor

SUMMARY: Provide substation physical engineering, technical support, and supervision to a Transmission Substation 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 projects including a wide range of utility substation projects, battery energy storage systems and solar collector substations. This role includes both direct billable client work (project work) and project management support for projects.

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, project cost estimating as well as supporting business development efforts.

• 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.
• Understand and create substation physical arrangement drawing packages for construction.
• 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.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact.

No direct reports, but mentors and provides leadership to junior engineers, designers, and engineers outside the discipline.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree from a four‑year college or university in Engineering (preferably Electrical Engineering).
• Engineering degree awarded from a college or university accredited by ABET.

EXPERIENCE

• 5–7 years experience as an engineer in the electrical industry in the field of power delivery.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• Professional Engineering (PE) license or the ability to be licensed within a year.

ON‑THE‑JOB TRAINING

As needed for the job and employee development.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, operational procedures, etc.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or the business community.

MATHATICAL SKILLS

• Apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. Compute rates, ratios, and percentages and draw and interpret spreadsheets.
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, including whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
• Compute rates, ratios, and percentages and draw and interpret spreadsheets.

REASONING ABILITY

• Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

OTHER

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• 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 individuals from various socio‑economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Self‑motivate…