Principal Eng - Delivery

Responsibilities

• Provides civil engineering to develop substation/civil plans for sitework including grading, off-site improvements, drainage facilities, fencing and block walls, and landscaping.
• Completes calculations and prepares designs for substation steel structures, foundations, and control enclosures.
• Completes transmission line engineering analysis, route analysis and selection, calculations for line design (includes structure loading, foundation design and conductor sag).
• Specifies materials and evaluates bid documents and technical submittals, and completes the construction package.
• Acquires all necessary construction approvals and permits from the authority having jurisdiction.
• Selects and widely applies engineering principles, theories and concepts in the design of transmission and substation civil projects.
• Mentors, leads, trains and directs fellow staff members, and provides technical design and project peer review.
• Independently scopes, routes, and sites substation and transmission line projects and evaluates alternatives in order to find best value.
• Collaborates with internal and external customers and stakeholders to ensure a successful project.
• Performs studies, prepares and provides written and oral reports to executive management, internal and external customers, and acts as an expert witness in legal proceedings, if required.
• Provides accurate cost estimates and schedule input for use in company budgeting procedures such that cash flow requirements are identified.
• Evaluates, benchmarks, and makes recommendations for the creation and improvements of substation and transmission standards and specifications.
• Ensures all compliance aspects of position are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes and regulations applicable to position and company.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited school and 15 years industry experience, including experience performing highly technical work of specialized nature.
• Must be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE).
• Demonstrated knowledge of utility settings with specific experience in the areas of civil, structural, and/or transmission engineering design.
• Working experience with large 345kV or 500kV substation/site development or related design.
• Structural experience involving substation steel design or transmission pole design for projects up to 345kV or 500kV.
• Transmission line design experience including overhead line design up to 345kV or 500kV and/or underground line design up to 230kV.
• Knowledge of topics including, but not limited to, 345kV and 500kV extra high voltage design and construction, underground transmission design and construction, 345kV and 500kV substation standard structural shapes and tapered tubular design and construction.
• Skills such as analytical, interpersonal, and communication.
• Experience with PCs, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and software for structural steel design, foundation design, transmission line design, hydrology and hydraulics.