Engineer III, IV

About the role

This position is posted until filled. Personnel in this job title may be covered by NERC CIP cyber security standards. If the position is covered, prior to being hired, promoted, or transferred into the position, the candidate must successfully pass a Personnel Risk Assessment, which includes identity verification and a criminal background check. Prior to being granted unescorted access to cyber secure areas, the candidate must attend cyber security training. Annual cyber security training is also required. Given the financial nature of this position, this position may be required to obtain a credit check depending on location.

Responsibilities

• Provides the diverse and advanced engineering and project management expertise associated with large and high-profile projects and/or a number of small projects.
• Leads or conducts performance, cost and scheduling studies/evaluations that require advanced and innovative techniques and/or the modifications of standard practices and precepts.
• Provides the operational areas with highly skilled and diversified expertise.
• Communicates engineering ideas, recommendations and evaluations to diverse internal and external audiences.
• Represents the companys interests in advanced engineering matters.
• Identifies and resolves broad technical and/or organizational issues affecting the company goals and objectives.
• Applies extensive engineering expertise to improve or develop new standards.
• Functions as a lead for staff engineers, professionals, and technicians and as appropriate, provides training.
• Applies engineering expertise to improve or develop new standards.
• Provides advanced and often highly innovative technical direction and/or activity supervision to contractors and company personnel on an as-needed basis.
• Functions as a lead for staff engineers, professionals, and technicians and as appropriate, provides training.
• Applies engineering expertise to improve or develop new standards.
• Provides technical direction and/or activity supervision to contractors and company personnel on a regular, on-going basis.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education and/or Experience: Bachelors Degree in Engineering from a college/university accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET) with five to seven years of experience. Masters Degree in Engineering is preferred.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: Professional Engineers License in the State of New Mexico is preferred.

Competencies

• Broad knowledge and proven ability to apply engineering principles, practices and regulations to, and perform economic and decision analysis studies of issues in areas including, but not limited to, generation, transmission, distribution, system planning, financial and regulatory issues, asset utilization, and environmental controls and regulations.
• Ability to read, interpret and apply national, state and local codes and standards (IEEE, ANSI, NEC, NESC, ACI, AISC, ASME, NACE, etc.).
• Ability to translate electrical theory and physics to utility application for improving system reliability.
• Ability to make informed repair decisions following company protocols.
• Comfortable working in and around high voltage (up to 345kV) electrical facilities and equipment.
• Ability to forecast budgets.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, self-motivation, and interpersonal skills.

Pay

$82,463 - $111,325 - $140,187

Schedule

Time will be divided between office and field, with a majority of time in the office. Work will be around high voltage electricity facilities, computers, office equipment, and construction equipment.