Lead Engineer - Energy and Infrastructure Projects (Raleigh, NC)

About the role

You play a pivotal role in shaping the future of energy infrastructure. You are entrusted with leading, coordinating, and executing all engineering aspects across Linxon's diverse and high-impact projects—including Air-Insulated Switchgear (AIS), Gas-Insulated Switchgear (GIS), Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Rail and Infrastructure programs, Data Centers, and both offshore and onshore Wind developments. In this role, you serve as the technical anchor for the project team—driving safety, cost efficiency, quality, and reliability at every stage. You provide strong technical leadership across all engineering disciplines, ensuring seamless integration and alignment from concept through execution.

Responsibilities

• Own all engineering execution—both in-house and outsourced—from proposal through energization, ensuring every project meets contractual, technical, and performance commitments.
• Command the engineering budget, driving cost-efficient decisions that strengthen overall project financials.
• Enforce schedule discipline, delivering complete, high-quality engineering packages on time and within targeted cost.
• Set the project's technical vision, defining design criteria and maintaining a precise, risk-aware deliverables plan.
• Inject innovative, cost-smart engineering solutions that enhance performance and reduce complexity.
• Guarantee safety-compliant, standards-aligned designs, eliminating risk, rework, and downstream issues.
• Audit all design packages for accuracy, constructability, and cost impact before release to the field.
• Validate vendor compliance, including witnessing factory acceptance tests to protect equipment quality and project reliability.
• Partner closely with the Project Manager to strengthen scope control, procurement execution, schedule accuracy, and change management.
• Champion quality and document control, ensuring clean, traceable, and audit-ready engineering records.
• Lead all customer technical engagements, securing approvals and resolving design issues with speed and authority.
• Unblock construction by responding to site technical questions and closing NCRs quickly, decisively, and safely.

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering or project management experience, ideally within an EPC environment.
• A BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
• Clear ownership of engineering budgets and decisions.
• Consistently uphold contract requirements, quality, and safety.
• Strong technical judgment and a collaborative mindset.
• Help teams deliver reliable results that support a sustainable energy future.

Qualifications

• Technical foundation to make informed decisions, solve complex challenges, and lead with confidence in a highly technical setting.
• Practical insight and leadership skills needed to drive complex energy-infrastructure projects forward.

Skills

• Strong technical leadership across all engineering disciplines.
• Ability to drive complex energy-infrastructure projects forward.
• Experience in EPC environments.
• Technical foundation to make informed decisions, solve complex challenges, and lead with confidence in a highly technical setting.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Enjoy a rewarding compensation package that reflects your contributions.
• Health, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Comprehensive benefits to support your well-being and that of your family.
• 401K with Employer Match: Invest in your future with our generous retirement savings plan.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Access confidential support for personal and professional challenges.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Recharge and relax with ample time off to maintain work-life balance.
• Learning and Development: Expand your skills through training programs and career-building opportunities.
• Mentorship Initiatives: Connect with experienced professionals for guidance, support, and career insight.
• Internal Mobility: Explore opportunities across departments and office locations to broaden your experience.
• Performance-Based Advancement: Grow your career through clear pathways tied to your achievements and impact.

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $113,000 to $216,600. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Schedule

Hybrid