Principal Project Engineer

DTE is one of the nation’s largest diversified energy companies. Our electric and gas companies have fueled our customer’s homes and Michigan’s progress for more than a century. And as Michigan’s largest source of renewable energy, we’re creating a cleaner, healthier environment to power our future. We’re also serving communities beyond Michigan, where our affiliated businesses offer renewable energy, emission control technologies, and energy services to industries in 19 states.

But we’re more than a leading energy company... and working at DTE is more than just a job. At DTE, we take great care of each other and our customers, and we use our energy to be a force for growth and prosperity in our communities.  When you join us, you’ll be part of a team that welcomes, recognizes, and celebrates differences and values everyone’s health, safety, and wellbeing.  

Are you ready to make that kind of difference? Bring your energy to DTE. Together, we can achieve great things.

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Not Applicable Hybrid Role:
This role is hybrid, with an established schedule of in-person work required at an assigned work location. Any remote work is expected to be performed from an employee’s primary residence, unless allowed (or prohibited) through the Company’s remote work guidelines.

Emergency Response:
Yes – Must be available to perform a primary assignment in support of DTE’s emergency response to storms or other events that impact service to our customers.

Job Summary Manages the development of scope and designs in teams to support large capital projects across Enterprise. Responsible for managing one or more projects within the constraints of scope and quality, while supporting the project manager’s delivery on time, and cost to specified engineered requirements and meet customer satisfaction. Chairs regular update meetings to management on scope, budget, engineering costs, schedules, and estimates for engineering designs.  

Responsible for training new project engineers. This is an individual contributor job.

Key Accountabilities Provides engineering leadership to multiple intermediate-to-large sized capital projects and/or multiple small projects.

Primary interface and liaison for the organization to address issues and primary interface to resolve engineering design problems across electrical distribution, transmission, power, generation, and/or gas.

Supports project estimators in project cost estimates. Manages engineering costs and project scope change control of engineering activities throughout the life cycle of a project. Manages the design development of e projects from the Conceptual Phase prior to the project design phase through to the completion of installation, testing and commissioning into service, which includes scope, budget, quality schedule controls, and on time completion.

Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure project is executed within scope while also developing contingency plans for planned outages during project construction.

Support and advocate for project managers by incorporating design changes requested by various permitting bodies and teams. Ensures all project requirements and/or objectives are properly documented and vigorously pursued via regular reporting, forecasting final testing, reviews and audits, thus implementing improvements in a timely manner.

Manages communication and risk management planning, preliminary schedule development, scope development, and information distribution to secure engineering support compliance with safety, environmental and other regulatory requirements. Also provide certified drawings for permits.

Supports development of design specifications and procurement of long-lead time or engineering design equipment and materials. Integrate…