Transmission Engineering Substation Design – Staff thru Senior

About the role

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 144,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.

Primary responsibilities

• Engineering design and project support responsibilities for transmission station design projects.
• Produce engineering physical and electrical designs drawings, specifications, and bills of material for substation and switching station construction projects in accordance with Company practices while meeting appropriate performance standards.
• Prepare budgetary cost estimates and Work Authorizations to obtain financial approval for assigned projects.
• Initiate requests for project material and contract labor and perform technical evaluations of the resulting vendor/contractor bids and designs.
• Cookordination the construction of assigned projects through the use of scheduling, material requisition, and construction meetings such that the overall project objectives are met.
• Communicate, coordinate, and interface with other areas of the Company and with others external to the Company to assure that designs and construction practices are appropriate.
• Effectively communicate and resolve minor issues with other workgroups while presenting detailed documentation and plans ranging from basic to slightly complex design.
• Provide design solutions and engineering designs as requested to resolve substation and switching station performance problems.
• Provide technical assistance to Transmission operations and maintenance organizations of Oncor.
• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.

Additional responsibilities

Senior level includes, but is not limited to, representing Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.

Skills

• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Flexible, organized, and multi-talented to handle large volumes of work.
• Influential and effective in working across disciplines and functions to achieve common goals and company business purposes.
• Capable of working with people of diverse backgrounds.
• Familiarity and/or proficiency in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
• Working subject and/or advanced knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Familiarity and/or is technically strong with transmission system to provide technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical, Civil, and/or Mechanical Engineering required.
• Staff Engineer: 4+ years of relevant engineering experience required.
• Senior Engineer: 6+ years of relevant engineering experience required.

Measure of success

• Technical issues are timely and effectively resolved, documented, and communicated.
• On time, within budget project completion.
• Learns and utilizes personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs within Oncor such as Microsoft Office products.
• Utilizes mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems within Oncor.

Benefits

• Annual incentive program.
• Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).
• Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,300 in 2026 as an Employee only) and other wellbeing resources.
• 401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.
• Cash balance pension plan.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee resource groups.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.
• Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.