Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The successful candidate will be part of HDR's national Alternative Delivery (AD) Leadership Team, driving collaboration between HDR's global power delivery staff and our construction teaming partners. They will manage technical bid development, estimating, and project transitions, ensuring clear scope, schedule, and budget expectations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Pursuit Champion / Manager on Transmission EPC projects.
• Transition management duties to Project Manager and execution team once the project is awarded.
• Ensure a clear transition of scope, schedule, and budget expectations.
• Facilitate discussions on technical risk analysis and mitigation, preliminary routing 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, distribution, substation, 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 while driving conversations on risk identification and mitigation.
• Avoid involvement in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations as required.
• 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 transmission line EPC pursuits and projects.
• Provide EPC best practice guidance to pursuit and project delivery teams.
• Perform team development, mentorship, and leadership, including Project Managers, Engineering Managers, discipline-specific practitioners such as transmission site/civil, structural/foundation, distribution, environmental, real estate, and GIS individuals.
• Perform other duties as needed.

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 building and leading engineering teams on EPC projects.
• Proficient in PLS-CADD, PLS-Pole, PLS-Tower, MFAD, and LPILE.
• Minimum 5 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 transmission line design, procurement, and construction including: estimating, engineering design, procurement, and construction specifications, and detailed design and drawing development for transmission projects up to 500kV.
• Understanding of transmission line routing, structure spotting, material selection, wire sagging, and foundation plans.
• 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 pole design and foundation design.
• Experience working with environmental, real estate, and GIS teams.
• 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

Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee ownership, employee health, performance, and success, including medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance, an employee assistance program, paid time away, parental leave, paid holidays, a retirement savings plan with employer match, employee referral bonus, and tuition reimbursement.