Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead

About the role

The Transmission EPC Project Engineering Lead position within HDR's Power Delivery Practice focuses on shaping the generation, transmission, and delivery of electricity. This role involves collaborating with HDR's global power delivery staff and construction teaming partners to manage technical bid development, estimating, and project transitions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in transmission line design, procurement, and construction, with a strong background in project management and leadership.

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 projects.
• 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.
• 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 mentoring Project Managers, Engineering Managers, and discipline-specific practitioners.
• 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.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering, or closely related field.
• Minimum 10 years of 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.