Lead Electrical Engineer - 765kV EHV Substation Design

Lead Electrical Engineer - 765kV EHV Substation Design

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

The Opportunity

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Function as a technical specialist in a lead substation design role encompassing EHV transmission level voltage classes
• Develop electrical design deliverables, including protection and control design (protective relays) and/or physical design
• Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings
• Lead other engineers and interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors
• Hold responsibility for the overall execution and quality of substation projects as a leader within a team environment
• QA/QC projects and mentor junior engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

• EHV Substation Design Physical & P&C
• Project Lead experience Leading teams as technical leader/SME and mentor. Supporting as point of contact for clients and coordinating with internal/external teams.
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control of EHV substation design projects
• Professional Engineering (PE) License
• Written Communications
• Drive For Results
• Priority Setting
• Planning
• Delegation
• Directing Others
• Conflict Management
• Informing
• Listening
• Dealing with Ambiguity and Building Effective Teams
• Intermediate knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Standards:

• Perform EHV substation design, including physical design, protective relaying/control with an emphasis on continuous improvement
• Developing Scoping documents for EHV substation projects
• Continues to learn, remains current and applies independent knowledge and interpretation about departmental design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and Customer policies and procedures relative to assigned tasks

Quality/Continuous Improvement:

• Consistently and independently applies knowledge and complies with Customer quality program relative to assigned tasks
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with Customer quality program while performing internal Quality Assurance technical reviews
• Provides guidance and direction to others from the same project and discipline
• Supports continuous improvement and change management efforts

Engineering Production:

• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables
• Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles
• Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements
• Plans and conducts independent evaluation, selection and adaptation of engineering techniques, procedures and criteria
• Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments
• Is responsible for one or more of the following: overseeing collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work; leading smaller production teams; and serving as the responsible charge for a project

Project Coordination:

• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on moderately complex projects
• Manage the work assignments and ensures quality from direct reports
• Actively participate in management, project scheduling, and work/resource planning meetings

Client Focus:

• Interface directly with clients, vendors and subcontractors
• Responsible for assisting with identification of key client interests and drivers on less complex projects
• Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on less complex projects
• May provide support to business development or pursuit activities

Knowledge Sharing, Innovation and Technology:

• May be recognized as a technical specialist by the division having in-depth knowledge of an engineering process and/or of technical aspects of an industry
• Responsible for the design of a complete project of moderately complex scope within an assigned practice area(s)

People Management - (supervision, career development, training, mentoring):

• Typically assists with performance management process, mentoring, recognition, and any corrective actions required
• Mentor less experienced engineers and direct reports
• Provide constructive feedback to direct reports on performance

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