Designer, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists

Description

Contribute your expertise, skills, and experience as a Distribution designer by joining our KDM Engineering team. KDM is a growing, award-winning, minority- and woman-owned professional engineering firm focusing on electric, gas, site civil, and telecommunications engineering designs and support services.

The Utility Distribution designer will perform detailed designs of overhead and/or underground electric, telecommunication and gas utility systems. This will include preparation of field notes, drawings, specifications and estimates for review and approval by the Senior staff, client Design staff and Engineers.

• Design and prepare independently, construction documents related to overhead, underground facilities associated with electric distribution systems and telecommunication networks and infrastructure following client’s standards, guides, specifications and procedures.
• Contact landowners and/or their agents to obtain appropriate permission s and approvals for new utility infrastructure to be installed.
• Apply the client’s standards, guidelines, specifications, practices and procedures or appropriate industry standards in preparing layouts of overhead and/or underground electric distribution facilities and telecommunication facilities.
• Prepare design sketches, cost estimates, bill of materials and any other required documents and reports for construction and maintenance projects.
• Prepare and submit required reports and correspondence.
• Utilize client and company information systems to track and update design activities.
• Have a working knowledge of the practices and procedures pertaining to the technical matter in electric and/or gas distribution design.

• Gas and Electrical Engineering
• Work Management Systems (Asset Suite 8, WMIS, Passport)
• Micro Station or AutoCAD
• Rights of Way easement and Permitting
• Pole Loading/Conductor Sag Analysis (Pole foreman/O-Calc/Spida Calc)
• Preparation of cost estimates, specifications, evaluation, requisitions, and Bill of Materials.
• Perform distribution system design calculation (ex. EDE calculations)
• Coordinate design deliverables to meet project schedules.
• Acquire field data necessary to prepare the appropriate design.
• NESC clearance and loading specifications.
• Plan and Profile Design
• GIS Systems (Map Info/GE Small world/ARC/ESRI applications)

• 2+ years’ experience in Utility Design
• Ability to handle contacts with clients and other agencies in connection with project design responsibilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Familiarity with basic computer software and operating systems.
• Management may consider other education and work experience to be acceptable for the appointment to this position.

• Must be willing to comply with all pre-employment screening, including but not limited to, drug testing, reference verification, education and employment verification and background screening.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
• Possess a valid Driver’s License.
• Current work
  
  Schedule:
  
  Hybrid- 3 days working in the office and 2 days from home. Fridays is always work from home!

Established in 2012 on a promise to alter the face of engineering, KDM Engineering has built a reputation of excellence in providing outstanding technical services, maintaining the highest standards of safety and quality assurance, and offering a truly inclusive work environment.

Our clients and partners in the public and private sectors consistently recognize KDM for our responsiveness to their needs, budgets, and schedules. Our peers distinguished KDM with Edison Electric Institute's Diverse Supplier Award, Capital One and Women Presidents’ Organization’s (WPO) 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies, and Chicago’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For annually for seven years.

Our talented, experienced team delivers exceptional engineering designs, project management, and customer support services to each of our projects. Our enduring commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is unmatched in our industry. Because our team comes from different backgrounds,…