HV Engineering Manager-EPC

Rosendin•RREG TX Projects, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The HV Engineering Manager is responsible for overseeing, managing, and mentoring junior staff in project Substation and Transmission Line Designs from a technical engineering perspective to ensure that the project complies with the project requirements and all engineering IEEE/ANSI standards, applicable codes, and the scope of work. The HV Engineering Manager should have knowledge of most aspects of MV/HV electrical engineering, while not conducting the work, the individual should be able to review and comment on any of the below with minimal support from other engineering staff: HV Transmission and Substation Designs, Technical studies such as harmonics, transients, Ampacity, Short Circuit, Load Flow, Grounding, protection, and any other study to the HV and MV field, Interconnection requirements and the application of those into the designs. The ability to assume responsibility, interface, and coordinate with others is required as portions of the engineering effort will be subcontracted out which is managed by the HV Engineering PM.

Requirements

A four-year degree from an accredited university or college in engineering or construction sciences with a minimum of 6-8 years experience in the construction of renewable HV Substation and Transmission projects.
The ability to assume responsibility, interface, and coordinate with others is essential, as is the ability to analyze and resolve complex engineering problems.
Can be a combination of education, training, and relevant experience.
Ability to work on multiple projects at any time. Designs can be 3-6 months in duration with multiple proceedings at the same time while supporting estimating with bid packages.
Fluency with remote productivity software such as but not limited to: Box, Cisco, GoTo Meeting.
Must have a working knowledge of AutoCAD.
Proficient in using a computer and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.).
Ability to interact effectively and professionally with all levels of employees, both management and staff alike, vendors, clients, and others.
Fluency with IEEE Standards, having been familiar with a good foundation but more so ability to research and learn new standards.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with software like Cymcap, Easy Power and Etap will be preferred.

Responsibilities

Select, scope, and oversee subcontractors assigned to your work or project. In this instance, the individual must be comfortable and capable of supervising a design group of 1-4 subcontractors for a single project.
Be able to completely review a contract for potential pitfalls or highlight obligations of REI to the client.
Assist REI Project Management in the selection of equipment and securing of long lead items.
Assist REI Project Management in incorporating obligations required under the utility agreements into the project design.
Assist REI Project Management in utility requirements surrounding obligations and assist in performance obligations leading up to Project COD.
Assist or perform preliminary designs for prospective projects that REI is pursuing. This would require being capable of developing an SLD and GA from scratch for estimating purposes.
Review, comment, and oversee an HV design performed by others as well as equipment procured by REI. Knowledge of how to specify the relative BIL, voltage withstands, S/C electrical and mechanical ratings is required to perform the reviews.
Knowledge of AutoCAD and Excel is required, in order to communicate conceptual SLD, Layout, and transmission lines with little to no support.
Fast-paced work is a must to support estimating, contract closeout, or BD document generation normally required in a 2-4 days time frame.
Possess a concept of installed costs of typical substation and transmission components to conduct value engineering functions as it relates to construction and general knowledge of costs of equipment.
Back-check for quality assurance of the work of design packages assembled by subcontractors.
Work closely with the Rosendin Senior Managers to coordinate the design criteria with budgetary issues.
Assist the contract closeout team with the review and markup of the contractual documents and represent REI in a client-facing position of calls or in person.
Assist in Marketing of the firm.