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 from pursuit to execution.

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.
• Support bill-of-material takeoffs and offer value engineering solutions.
• Lead HDR scope, schedule, and budget development for AD projects.
• 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.
• Work with power delivery and operations leadership to build out FEED teams.
• Assist in Go/No-Go discussions, project risk assessments, SOQs, proposals, interviews, and negotiations.
• Perform other duties as needed.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering, or closely related field.
• 10 years experience in related field.
• Maintains a professional or Engineering registration and has related technical experience.
• Works cooperatively with other business class regional directors, operations managers, technical directors, and marketing managers on business class efforts.
• Committed to quality, improvement, and HDR values.
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must.