Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

HDR is seeking a national Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead within our Power Delivery Practice to be part of our national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team. This role focuses on driving collaboration between HDR’s global power delivery staff and our construction teaming partners, managing technical bid development, estimating, and project transitions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Pursuit Champion / Manager on Transmission EPC projects.
• Transition management duties to Project Manager and execution team once project is awarded.
• Ensure clear scope, schedule, and budget expectations are communicated.
• Facilitate discussions on technical risk analysis and mitigation, preliminary routing, and design.
• Support bill-of-material takeoffs and offer value engineering solutions.
• Lead HDR scope, schedule, and budget development for AD projects.
• Coordinate with land survey, geotechnical, distribution, substation, environmental, real estate, and geographic information system (GIS) staff.
• Estimate technical investments and prepare for Go/No-Go discussions.
• Contribute to project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations.
• Build out FEED teams and assist in project technical leadership roles.
• Develop templates, standards, specifications, drawings, processes, and procedures for transmission line EPC pursuits and projects.
• Provide EPC best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Perform team development, mentorship, and leadership activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Professional Engineering License.
• Project Management Professional (PMP).
• Minimum 10 years of experience in transmission design.
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and leading engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Proficient in PLS-CADD, PLS-Pole, PLS-Tower, MFAD, and LPILE.
• Experience developing engineering scope, schedule, and budget estimates on EPC projects.
• Specific experience in transmission line design, procurement, and construction.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional 5 years of experience in transmission line design, procurement, and construction.
• Experience in value engineering solutions and discussions with material vendors and subcontractors.
• Experience in pole and foundation design optimization.
• Experience working with environmental, real estate, and GIS teams.