Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead position within HDR’s Power Delivery Practice is a key member of the 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.
• 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 project technical leadership roles, including engineering manager, discipline lead, technical advisor, or other.
• Work with power delivery and operations leadership to build out front-end engineering and design (FEED) teams.
• Support ongoing technical risk analysis to determine if/when to “handoff” the project.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Civil and/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.
• 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.).
• Up to 20% travel required.