Associate Engineer, Senior or Lead

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct impact on utility standards, materials, and system reliability while working with a highly collaborative team in Tucson, Arizona. You'll play a key role in shaping construction and material standards that support safe, reliable T&D operations across the organization. If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, working independently, and being a trusted resource for both field and engineering teams, this position provides meaningful responsibility and longterm growth potential.

• Develop, update, and manage construction and material standards, documentation, and databases
• Evaluate failed or trial materials, develop recommendations, and support resolution with field and technical teams
• Review vendors, material specifications, bids, and alliance agreements to support cost, reliability, and safety goals
• Provide technical support to T&D Operations, field crews, and internal stakeholders on standards compliance and equipment issues
• Perform technical, financial, and budgetary studies to support standards decisions and strategic initiatives

• Strong experience in construction, materials, standards, or related engineering operations
• Proven ability to lead projects independently, manage priorities, and deliver results on time
• Solid understanding of electrical drawings, material specifications, and utility standards
• Analytical mindset with experience evaluating vendors, materials, and cost performance
• Effective communicator comfortable leading meetings and working across engineering, procurement, and operations teams

Provide specialized and independent work in the performance of engineering studies and data evaluations. Provide a technical role in evaluating and recommending changes or additions to equipment construction and material standards. Provide support in reviewing product vendors, material specifications, and designs. Provide organization and administration of independent projects and critical standards issues for the group.

• Organize and direct material evaluations including the reporting and recommendation of failed material solutions. Provide support to other technical personnel in the section in coordinating final assessment of failed construction materials.
• Independently review project progress and results using time and project management techniques. Provide support in keeping the Standards section priorities in line with the needs of T&D Operations.
• Develop or establish major project requirements for both regulated and non-regulated business activities. Provide technical support to field crews for material standards compliance, compatibility, and resolution of equipment problems.
• Provide technical evaluation of incoming material for trial inventory, and provide vendor bid evaluation, alliance review, and material specification evaluation.
• Perform budgetary and cost studies as required, including the evaluation of vendor material pricing, competing products, and historical material usage. Prepare recommendation reports supporting financial results.
• Ensure that all construction and material standards information and documentation are accurate and updated in a timely manner and provide technical assistance to personnel in the section in providing these updates.
• Provide recommendations and decisions for standards issues, and are proactive in evaluating methods to reduce costs, increase reliability, and improve safety for T&D Operations.
• Assist or lead the development, implementation and update of computer programs and databases used for standards material tracking and construction standards (CU) administration, including other supporting software and hardware requirements.
• Initiate work orders, material requisitions, and other purchasing and project tracking documentation as appropriate.
• Provide representation and/or facilitation in the Distribution Standards Committee activities, including follow up action or required updating of material and construction standards.
• Report to designated Supervisor and perform various assignments as requested.
• Responsible for OATT…