Principal Engineer - 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Acts as an expert witness in legal proceedings, if required.
• Provides accurate cost estimates and schedule input for use in company budgeting procedures.
• 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

• Education and Work Experience: 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 PE or able to obtain Nevada Licensure within nine months of hire.
• Specialized Knowledge and Skills: Demonstrated knowledge of utility settings with specific experience in the areas of civil, structural and/or transmission engineering design. Working With Civil experience with large 345kV or 500kV substation/switchyard site development or related design. Transmission line design experience including overhead line design up to 345kV or 500K and/or underground line design up to 230kV. Topics including, but not limited to, 345kV and 500kV extra high voltage design and construction, underground transmission design and construction, 345kV and 500V substation standard structural shape and tapered tubular design and construction. Analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Equipment and Applications: PCs, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and software for structural steel design, foundation design, transmission line design, hydrology and hydraulics.

About the Role

Provides comprehensive civil/structural engineering design services for substation and/or transmission facilities, and to ensure that these facilities are constructed on schedule and within committed resource allocations.