Sr. Transmission & Generation Planning Engineer (PE)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical owner and reviewer for transmission and generation design packages — plans, specifications, and construction documents — produced by internal teams, engineering firms, and EPC contractors,…
• Direct large EPC efforts covering high-voltage transmission (lines, structures, and rights-of-way), transmission substations and switchyards, and generation facilities (plant, balance of plant, and grid…
• Develop standardized design criteria, specifications, drawing templates, and review checklists so engineers and consultants produce consistent, constructible, code-compliant documents
• Give project managers and leadership a clear readiness call on design maturity, long-lead equipment, permitting, constructibility, and construction sequencing, and surface schedule risk early
• Own the construction-phase technical interface: respond to RFIs, disposition field changes, direct contractors and vendors on technical issues, and support commissioning through turnover
• Interface with electric utilities, transmission providers, ERCOT processes as applicable, and authorities having jurisdiction on interconnection, routing, permitting, and compliance
• Resolve technical issues across civil, structural, electrical, protection and controls, and mechanical disciplines, and push designs that are safe, reliable, and fast to build
• Stay current on the NESC, NEC, IEEE, NFPA, and Texas utility practice; fold lessons from construction and commissioning back into standards; and mentor engineers while holding consultants and contractors to that same bar

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical or other engineering discipline
• Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license, with the ability to stamp and certify electrical plans
• 8+ years of experience in electric utility engineering, including technical leadership of design, specification development, and permitting or interconnection
• Extensive, hands-on experience on large EPC builds of both electrical transmission and electrical generation. Transmission experience must include lines and substations at transmission voltage.
• Record of taking those projects through detailed design, equipment specification and procurement support, construction support, and commissioning.
• Manager-level experience — for example as a design manager, engineering manager, or project engineering manager — at an engineering or EPC firm hired by electric utilities (investor-owned, municipal, cooperative, or…
• Direct responsibility for transmission at 69 kV and above, including line design and substation or switchyard design (air-insulated and/or gas-insulated)
• Direct responsibility for utility-scale generation and balance of plant, such as simple-cycle or combined-cycle gas plants or other large generation, including interconnection to the transmission system