Engineering Manager - Distribution - Texas - DFW Remote

About the role

The Distribution Engineering Manager at Ampirical is responsible for overseeing a team of professionals and technicians in the Distribution Line Engineering Department. This role involves supervising and guiding a team to deliver Distribution line projects, managing their workload, and ensuring the successful achievement of project milestones and goals.

Responsibilities

• Supervises a group of engineers, designers, drafters, and project support coordinators to successfully deliver Distribution line projects.
• Administers performance reviews and staff evaluations for direct reports.
• Directs and oversees work of Design and Planning Engineers: conceptual routes, layouts, preliminary and detailed designs, and specifications for distribution lines.
• Prepares Construction Sketches, Plan and profile sheets, staking sheets, bills of materials, and permit drawings.
• Develops Pole loading drawings, framing drawings, and construction drawings.
• Performs pole loading, cable pulling, and other design calculations.
• Maintains and updates As-built revisions for Distribution System Planning projects.
• Develops and coordinates Distribution System Protection projects, including coordination studies and relay settings development.
• Maintains and develops a strong professional network of existing and potential customers, especially municipal and electric cooperative utilities in the state of Florida.
• Travels to client sites/field/vendor facilities as needed.
• Performs quality reviews of engineering work for both internal assets and sub-contractors on assigned projects.
• Manages the development of project proposals, bid preparation, project schedules, bill of materials, etc. for assigned projects.

Requirements

Education: A Bachelor’s Degree from an ABET-accredited university. Professional Engineer (PE) required, additional two years of experience accepted in lieu of a degree.

Experience: 10+ years of Distribution line design and other related project execution experience. 5+ years of experience in the management and development of multi-discipline engineering personnel including the delegation of workloads, directing others, and planning of Distribution Line projects.

Qualifications

Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Skills

Strong leadership and supervisory skills, excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, proficiency in design software, attention to detail, ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

Day-one benefits include medical, dental, vision coverage, a 401(k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting, flexible work schedule, and a gym membership stipend.

Additional perks include a wellness program, fertility benefits, pet insurance, and more.

Pay

Salary range: $136K + commensurate (dependent on experience, education, and qualifications).

Profit-sharing bonus: semi-annual, performance-based (10% to 20% of salary).

Schedule

Flexible work schedule: every other Friday off.