Substation EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The successful candidate will be part of HDR's national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team, focusing on technical bid development, estimating, and transitioning projects from pursuit to execution. This role involves working with HDR's global power delivery staff and construction teaming partners.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Pursuit Champion / Manager on Substation EPC projects.
• Ensure a clear transition of scope, schedule, and budget expectations once the project is awarded.
• Facilitate discussions on technical risk analysis and mitigation, preliminary layout, and design, and bill-of-material takeoff support.
• Offer value engineering and constructability solutions.
• Lead HDR scope, schedule, and budget development with a focus on AD project-specific activities and risks.
• Coordinate with land survey, geotechnical, transmission line, environmental, real estate, and geographic information system (GIS) staff.
• Estimate technical investments prior to the Go/No-Go discussion and share risk evaluations with relevant leaders.
• Interface with construction contractors and HDR subconsultants during pursuit and project phases.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations.
• Build out FEED teams and work with power delivery and operations leadership.
• Support project technical leadership roles, including engineering manager, discipline lead, technical advisor, or other.
• Develop templates, standards, specifications, drawings, processes, and procedures to support substation EPC pursuits and projects.
• Provide EPC best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Perform team development, mentorship, and leadership tasks, including project management, engineering management, and discipline-specific practitioner roles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering.
• Professional Engineering License.
• Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Minimum 10 years of experience in substation design.
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and leading engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Proficient in CDEGS, BIM Software (Autodesk, Revit, Bentley).
• Minimum 3 years of experience developing engineering scope, schedule, and budget estimates on EPC projects.
• Experience developing EPC design and construction packages.
• Specific experience performing all aspects of substation design, procurement, and construction, including estimating, engineering design, procurement, and construction specifications, and detailed design and drawing development for substation projects up to 500kV.
• Understanding of on-line and general arrangement drawings, equipment selection, and the benefits/drawbacks of various physical arrangements.
• Experience offering value engineering solutions that align with industry best practices while leading discussions with material vendors and subcontractors on such topics.
• Experience optimizing substation designs (site layouts, foundations, automation, etc.) in tandem with discipline-specific subject matter experts (SMEs).
• Strong leadership skills and engineering management experience with multiple remote teams.
• Self-starter with excellent writing and communication skills.
• Strong conceptual, organizational, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and conferencing platforms (Zoom, WebEx, Teams, etc.).

Benefits

The expected compensation range for this position depends upon skills, experience, education, and geographical location. HDR offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time off, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus, and tuition reimbursement.