Substation EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The successful candidate will join HDR's national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team, serving as a Project Engineering Lead for substation EPC projects within the Power Delivery Practice. This role involves driving collaboration between HDR's global power delivery staff and construction teaming partners, managing technical bid development, estimating, and project transitions.

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, 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.
• Risk evaluation will be shared with commercial, business development, and operations leaders to determine if/how to pursue opportunities.
• Interface with construction contractors and HDR subconsultants during the pursuit and project phases.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• Work with power delivery and operations leadership to build out FEED teams.
• 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 activities, including project management, engineering management, and discipline-specific practitioner roles.
• Report to the Alternative Delivery Director.

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 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.
• Has 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.).