Senior Transmission Engineering Manager

Location: Reno, NV; Salt Lake City, UT; Denver, CO; or San Diego, CA

Position Summary

RDQ is seeking an experienced Senior Transmission Engineering Manager to lead and grow our transmission engineering capabilities. This position will provide technical leadership, develop and mentor engineering staff, oversee the execution of complex transmission projects, strengthen engineering standards and quality processes, and support the continued growth of RDQ’s transmission business.

The Senior Transmission Engineering Manager will remain technically engaged while leading engineers and project teams. The ideal candidate combines deep transmission-line engineering expertise with strong leadership, project execution, client relationship, and business-development skills.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop transmission engineers, designers, and technical leads.
• Recruit and help build the transmission engineering organization as workload grows.
• Establish clear roles, responsibilities, technical expectations, and career-development opportunities.
• Develop future project and technical leaders.
• Manage staffing, workload, utilization, and resource planning across transmission projects.
• Promote a culture of technical excellence, accountability, responsiveness, and collaboration.
• Remain hands-on when necessary to initiate projects, solve technical challenges, and support the team through critical deliverables.

Technical Leadership

• Provide senior technical oversight for overhead and underground transmission-line engineering projects.
• Lead engineering associated with transmission-line routing, structure selection, line modeling, structural analysis, foundation design, clearances, loading, and construction documentation.
• Establish and maintain transmission engineering standards, design criteria, calculation procedures, templates, and QA/QC practices.
• Provide technical direction for PLS-CADD and PLS-POLE modeling and transmission-line design.
• Review engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, reports, and construction packages.
• Lead the resolution of complex technical and constructability issues.
• Serve as Engineer of Record or provide responsible-charge oversight where appropriate and permitted.
• Maintain knowledge of applicable requirements and industry practices, including NESC, ASCE 7, ASCE 48, RUS, GO 95, and other applicable client and jurisdictional standards.

Project Execution

• Oversee transmission engineering projects from initial planning through detailed design and construction support.
• Develop engineering execution plans, design criteria, scopes, schedules, staffing plans, and budgets.
• Coordinate engineering activities with substation, civil, structural, protection and controls, distribution, and other disciplines.
• Monitor technical progress, schedule, budget, deliverable quality, and project risk.
• Lead design reviews and ensure appropriate independent checking and QA/QC.
• Support permitting, right-of-way, environmental, geotechnical, survey, and construction interfaces as required by the engineering scope.
• Provide technical support during procurement, construction, and commissioning.

Client & Business Leadership

• Develop and maintain relationships with utilities, developers, EPC contractors, renewable-energy developers, data-center clients, and other power-industry customers.
• Serve as a senior technical and client-facing representative for RDQ.
• Support the development of proposals, scopes of work, engineering estimates, schedules, and execution strategies.
• Participate in client presentations, interviews, negotiations, and strategic pursuits.
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and develop new transmission-engineering work.
• Coordinate with RDQ leadership and other engineering disciplines to pursue integrated transmission, substation, distribution, BESS, and grid-infrastructure opportunities.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Structural, or Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license, with the ability to obtain additional state registrations as necessary.
• Seven (7) or more years of engineering and design experience, including significant experience in electric transmission-line engineering.
• One (1) or more years of experience managing direct reports.
• Demonstrated experience leading transmission engineering teams and complex projects.
• Strong knowledge of overhead transmission-line design and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with transmission structure analysis and design, loading, clearances, foundations, and construction documentation.
• Working knowledge of PLS-CADD and PLS-POLE, with familiarity with CAD/design platforms used for transmission engineering.
• Strong understanding of applicable utility standards and industry codes.
• Experience developing and reviewing engineering calculations, drawings, specifications, design criteria, and construction packages.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and develop technical talent.
• Strong client, project, and commercial judgment.

Preferred

• Ten (10) or more years of engineering and design experience.
• Three (3) or more years of experience managing direct reports.
• Experience in an engineering consulting, EPC, utility, or Owner’s Engineering environment.
• Experience developing or growing a transmission engineering team or technical practice.
• Experience with high-voltage transmission projects involving multiple structure and foundation types.
• Experience interfacing with geotechnical, survey, environmental, permitting, right-of-way, substation, and construction teams.
• Experience with both greenfield and brownfield transmission projects.
• Demonstrated success supporting proposals, client development, and account growth.
• Experience overseeing multiple concurrent projects and engineering teams.

Core Competencies

• Transmission-line engineering expertise, technical leadership, and responsible-charge judgment.
• PLS-CADD / PLS-POLE leadership, QA/QC, and design governance.
• Engineering team development, project management, and resource management.
• Client relationship management, proposal and scope development, and business and practice development.
• Commercial awareness, risk identification, and issue resolution.
• Multidisciplinary coordination and clear executive and technical communication.

Success in This Role

A successful Senior Transmission Engineering Manager at RDQ will build people, deliver projects, strengthen technical standards, and grow client relationships simultaneously. This person should be equally comfortable reviewing a complex transmission design, mentoring an engineer, resolving a project issue with a client, developing a proposal, and helping RDQ plan the next stage of its transmission engineering organization.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual Salary Range: $135,000–$180,000, depending on experience, skills, and qualifications.

RDQ cares about its people more than anything. We believe that when our people thrive, so does our company. We want you to flourish both in and out of work. Because of this, RDQ offers competitive compensation and a benefits package which includes:

• Health Insurance
• Dental and Vision Coverage
• Life, Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings & Profit-Sharing
• Continuing Education, Training, & Coaching Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer

Diversity is one of our core values. RDQ is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable status protected by state or local law.

Additional Information

• Work Authorization: We value and honor your time; please note that at this point in time, RDQ will not sponsor applicants for work authorization.
• Drug-Free Workplace: We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Physical Expectations of Role

The job requires the ability to sit for extended periods at a computer workstation, as well as attend occasional client meetings and site visits. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.