Substation Engineering Supervisor (PE)

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Supervisor (PE)

Job Description

The Engineering Supervisor (PE) oversees the day-to-day operations of an electrical substation engineering department, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to high quality standards. This role provides both technical and non-technical leadership to engineering teams, manages project scopes and workflows, and serves as the primary liaison between internal teams and the customer. The Supervisor plays a key role in driving business processes, supporting growth initiatives, and ensuring smooth execution of current and future work.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and training in substation engineering, with a focus on protection and control, and offer one-on-one mentorship and coaching to team leads.
• Establish, monitor, and maintain quality control standards for design services, engineering standards, and deliverable products.
• Monitor and maintain project budgets and schedules for all department projects and workflows using designated systems and procedures.
• Develop and review conceptual project scopes and effectively communicate these scopes to multiple stakeholders, including providing cost estimates for projects.
• Hold teams accountable to project estimates, schedules, and customer deadlines, and ensure change orders are issued promptly when required.
• Directly manage team leads and individual contributors within the department, providing guidance on technical and operational matters.
• Collaborate with internal leads and customer stakeholders to drive business processes that keep workflow and workload efficient and effective.
• Complete written technical performance reports and deliver periodic presentations to management and teams regarding project status, budget, and performance.
• Identify and understand customer needs and work closely with the customer and internal team to ensure processes run smoothly and expectations are met.
• Distribute workflow from the customer to internal leads for allocation to their teams, ensuring all projects are funneled and coordinated through the Supervisor.
• Serve as the primary interface and liaison with the customer to address problems, inefficiencies, and process issues.
• Resolve issues related to invoicing, resourcing, and staffing to maintain project continuity and customer satisfaction.
• Mediate and work out resolutions to disagreements between the customer and internal team regarding processes and project-related issues.
• Proactively pursue solutions to personnel matters, including hiring, termination, promotions, demotions, attendance concerns, scheduling, and performance reviews.
• Supervise the work of the project team and take responsibility for coaching, performance evaluations, employee relations, and overall team development.
• Drive training and development initiatives for the team through close collaboration with leads to build skills and capabilities.
• Utilize Microsoft Office and customer-specific software and applications to manage projects, documentation, reporting, and communication.

Essential Skills

• Extensive technical expertise in substation engineering, including protection and control systems, relay settings, one-line diagrams, fault studies, and fault analysis.
• Demonstrated experience in engineering supervision and engineering management within utility or utility services environments.
• Ability to establish and maintain quality control standards for engineering design services and technical deliverables.
• Strong project management skills, including budgeting, scheduling, scope development, and cost estimation.
• Proven ability to lead, supervise, and develop technical design and engineering teams, including direct management of leads and individual contributors.
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with customers, presenting to management, and coordinating across internal teams.
• Ability to resolve complex issues related to invoicing, resourcing, staffing, and process disagreements in a professional and constructive manner.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and the ability to learn and use customer-specific software and applications.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience engineering and managing electric substation protection and control systems projects.
• 4+ years of experience leading or supervising a technical design or engineering team.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license, or the ability and willingness to obtain a PE license within an agreed timeframe.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience working with electric utilities or utility services organizations on substation projects.
• Background in developing and reviewing conceptual project scopes and aligning them with customer requirements.
• Experience preparing written technical performance reports and delivering presentations on project status, budget, and performance.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements.
• Experience handling personnel decisions such as hiring, promotions, demotions, and performance evaluations in an engineering environment.
• Ability to foster teamwork and collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Comfort working as a primary liaison between internal engineering teams and external customers.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Oklahoma City, OK.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.07 - $70.10/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 2, 2026.

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