765kV Station Design Engineer thru Senior

About the role

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 144,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, plan, schedule, and provide construction management of the planned projects for the 765kV extra high voltage system capital projects, to ensure that sound engineering and Oncor standards are incorporated.
• Produce engineering physical and electrical designs drawings, specifications, and bills of material for 765kV/345kV switching station construction projects in accordance with Company practices while meeting appropriate performance standards.
• This will require the use of engineering disciplines and practices.
• Prepare budgetary cost estimates and Work Authorizations to obtain financial approval for assigned projects.
• Initiate requests for project material and contract labor and perform technical evaluations of the resulting vendor/contractor bids and designs.
• Cookordination the construction of assigned projects through the use of scheduling, material requisition, and construction meetings such that the overall project objectives are met.
• Communicate, coordinate, and interface with other areas of the Company and with others external to the Company to assure that designs and construction practices are appropriate.
• Effectively communicates and resolves minor issues with other workgroups while presenting detailed documentation and plans ranging from basic to slightly complex design.
• Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs such as Microsoft Office products and computer-aided design (CAD) software platforms.
• Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems.
• Provide design solutions and engineering designs as requested to resolve substation and switching station performance problems.
• Provide technical assistance to Transmission operations and maintenance organizations of Oncor.
• Perform all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.

Staff Engineer

• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.

Senior Engineer

• Represent Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.

Skills

• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be flexible, have organizational skills, and multi-tasking skills to handle large volumes of work.
• Must possess multi functionality skills to influence changes and effectively work across disciplines and functions to achieve common goals and company business purposes.
• Capable of working with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Familiarity in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
• Advanced subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Proficient in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications, or demonstrable capability of obtaining proficiency in these applications.
• Technically strong to provide direct technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering required.
• For Engineer Level 2+ years of comparable engineering experience required.
• For Staff Engineer Level 4+ years of comparable engineering experience required.
• For Senior Engineer Level 6+ years of comparable engineering experience required.

Benefits

• Annual incentive program.
• Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).
• Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,300 in 2026 as an Employee only) and other wellbeing resources.
• 401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.
• 401k match with student debt program.
• Cash balance pension plan.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee resource groups.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.
• Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.