Manager - Electrical Engineering (Utilities)

Atwell, LLC•Lakewood, CO

4d•$100,000 - $165,000

About The Position

Atwell, LLC is hiring a Manager in Utility Substations to lead engineers, designers, drafters, and other technical professionals responsible for accurate, timely, and high-quality completion of discipline-specific engineering scopes. The role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload forecasting, team-level financial visibility, QA/QC accountability, and project support. The manager leads employee development and performance, plans team workloads and resources, monitors project schedules and financial performance, and coordinates priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership. The role also oversees discipline-specific engineering design packages, technical reviews, compliance with applicable standards and requirements, and resolution of technical and project-delivery issues. The position supports project planning, proposals, client pursuits, and business development, and helps ensure work is delivered within scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements. Work takes place in a professional environment, with location and reporting expectations determined by business needs. Some field work and travel may be required.

Requirements

Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold multidisciplinary technical teams accountable.
Ability to maintain accountability for deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
Strong workload-planning and resource-forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate-to-complete information.
Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
Strong technical-review and QA/QC capabilities, including identifying quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project-delivery concerns and escalate issues appropriately.
Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project-change documentation.
Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
Ability to collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
Advanced knowledge of utility-substation physical engineering, including electrical clearances, layouts, sections and elevations, bus configurations, control buildings, equipment selection, grounding, conduit systems, structural interfaces, and HV or EHV design practices.
Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the specialty.
Commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
6–10 years of experience in utility substations, physical or structural substations engineering, power delivery, design, or a related technical field.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.
Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.

Responsibilities

Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals.
Maintain accountability for accurate, timely, high-quality completion of the team’s engineering and design scopes.
Set expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, development planning, and succession planning.
Assess team capabilities and development needs, and coordinate appropriate training, mentoring, and work assignments.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, high-performing team focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
Forecast workloads, plan resources and staffing, schedule teams, and monitor project performance to maintain project coverage.
Track active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
Coordinate project assignments and priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance.
Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks.
Improve standards, workflows, tools, and team practices to enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and performance.
Oversee development of discipline-specific engineering design packages.
Provide or coordinate technical and QA/QC reviews and ensure deliverables comply with company, client, utility, code, and construction requirements.
Ensure the team applies appropriate design standards, industry codes, and company quality processes.
Coordinate across technical disciplines as needed.
Investigate and resolve technical issues and support estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and change documentation.
Support project planning and execution to help deliver work within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and project-change documentation with Project Managers.
Coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes with Project Managers and technical leaders.
Support proposal development, marketing, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
Help resolve client technical and delivery concerns and promote responsive service.
Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

Generous paid time off
Paid parental leave
Flexible work schedules for some positions
Tenure awards with travel vouchers
Competitive compensation packages
Annual bonuses, spot bonuses, and peer recognition awards
401(k) match of 1:1 up to 4% of compensation
Tuition assistance
Student loan repayment
Paid licensing and certification fees and renewals
Financial rewards for obtaining licensure
Employee referrals
Annual wellness reimbursement
Dependent care match
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Family planning and IVF benefits
Pet insurance
Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account options
Employer-paid long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance
Supplemental accident, hospitalization, and critical illness benefits
Member Assistance Program with complimentary counseling, legal benefits, financial consultations, and work/life referral services