Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The successful candidate will lead HDR’s pursuit and execution of transmission EPC projects, collaborating with HDR’s global power delivery staff and 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.
• Ensure a clear transition of scope, schedule, and budget expectations once the project is awarded.
• 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, sharing risk evaluations with commercial, business development, and operations leaders.
• Interface with construction contractors and HDR subconsultants during pursuit and project phases, driving conversations on risk identification and mitigation.
• 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 and serve in project technical leadership roles.
• 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 management, engineering management, discipline leads, technical advisors, and other roles.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.