Engineer, Civil Engineering

Job Description

Provide civil-structural engineering and technical expertise and support to Transmission Substation engineering and design teams for the purpose of delivering safe, cost-effective, and quality engineering and design services. Provide civil-structural specific design and direction on complex engineering and technical challenges for the projects. This role includes both direct billable client work (project work) and project management support for projects. The incumbent is expected to support discipline specific 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.

Under minimum supervision in the area of power delivery and structural engineering, the incumbent will provide:

Complexity of work:
Complex; established procedures not available. Major decision making.

Relationship outside work group:
Influences decisions of moderate nature requiring high degree of tact.

Supervisory responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regular attendance is required.

Education and/or experience:

Required A Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university in Civil Engineering.

Required Engineering degree awarded from a college or university that is accredited by ABET.

Experience:

2-4 years experience as a Civil/Structural Engineer within the electrical industry in the field of power delivery.

Certifications, licenses, registrations:

Engineer in Training (EIT) certification strongly preferred. Actively working towards obtaining Professional Engineering (PE) license with the ability to be licensed within two years.

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 reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

C. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

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 spreadsheets.

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.

Reasoning ability:

A. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Other skills and abilities:

• Understanding of practical research for engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing and presenting recommendations.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work alone or with limited supervision as well as be a productive member of a team.
• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Understanding of advanced electrical engineering concepts as they impact civil-structural designs.
• Effective oral and written communication skills.

Desired skills and qualifications:

• Ability to interpret written specifications and implement them on engineering drawings.
• Ability to read, understand and create a civil engineering drawing package associated with the physical layout of a substation, specific to the creation of foundation and structure designs.
• Create civil-structural project scopes, estimates, budgets, and schedules for substation projects.
• Perform calculations for various foundation types including drilled piers, spread footers, and transformer pads.
• Design and procure transformer oil containment systems.
• Analyze new and existing steel (or wood) structures using modeling software.
• Oversee the work of junior staff and mentor designers/drafters.
• Collaborate with senior civil engineers to create best practices, quality assurance, and processes and procedures.
• Collaborate, communicate, and liaise effectively with other design disciplines, colleagues, construction contractors, consultants, materials suppliers, and clients.
• Visit sites, advise on civil and structural engineering issues, and modify design to solve issues during construction.
• Provide general…