Senior Project (Technical) Specialist 2

GAI Consultants•Lisle, IL

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

GAI is seeking a Senior Project Technical Specialist 2 to join our Power Delivery team in the role of Senior Transmission Design Engineer. This position will report to the Transmission Line Assistant Engineering Director in our Power Delivery Engineering Business Sector in GAI’s Power Business Unit. Required skills include transmission line design experience, critical thinking, problem solving, organization, team-focus, and eagerness to apply learned engineering principles to solve real life problems. This position will be hybrid out of our Lisle, IL office. This position combines technical leadership in transmission line design with advisory responsibilities to support a program through all phases of project development and execution. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in high-voltage transmission line engineering and design, and strong problem-solving skills. This individual should be technically focused and a strong project leader with developed technical, communication, and computer skills. This position will work collaboratively with the Assistant Engineering Director for this program. Competency Extensive knowledge of electric utility transmission line engineering and design. Extensive experience in applying project management skills and uses of advanced practices to increase productivity, efficiency, and accuracy.

Requirements

transmission line design experience
critical thinking
problem solving
organization
team-focus
eagerness to apply learned engineering principles to solve real life problems
Extensive experience in high-voltage transmission line engineering and design
strong problem-solving skills
technically focused
strong project leader
developed technical, communication, and computer skills
Extensive knowledge of electric utility transmission line engineering and design.
Extensive experience in applying project management skills and uses of advanced practices to increase productivity, efficiency, and accuracy.
8 + years of experience.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred

Responsibilities

Complete day-to-day project tasks as required for successful project delivery.
Preparation of Specification Packages
Preparation of Structural and Fabrication Drawings
Design and Analysis of Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and PLS-Tower
Design and Analysis of foundations.
Analysis of existing and proposed structures with regard to Client and Other required codes, standards, and specifications.
Performance of Electrical Clearance checks and calculations.
Coordination and development of permits for Railroads, Roadways, and Environmental Crossings.
Apply engineering principles to assist in the design of Power Delivery Projects.
Must demonstrate attention to detail.
Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Perform complex tasks typically following established processes.
Implements effective engineering methods, provides technical guidance, and acts as a resource for engineers and designers.
Directly manages projects with no limit to the number or value of individual projects managed.
Effectively executes project within scope, schedule, and fee for projects managed.
Assist in quality control and quality assurance of active projects, providing peer and final reviews and training of engineers and designers in quality control processes.
Establish and refine engineering processes and standard operating procedures that enhance team performance, alignment, and delivery predictability.
Develops standards and guidelines.
Leads a program in the organization in their area of specialization.
Develops appropriate design alternatives for complex engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and other regulatory constraints.
Integrates advanced concepts, including sustainability, to solve complex problems.
Oversees large or multidiscipline project teams.
Recommends facilities, personnel, and funds to carry out programs.
Oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire program.
Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex engineering project.
Implements effective teamwork, leadership, and justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion principles into solutions for engineering problems.
Determines program objectives and requirements.
Develops organizational policies and procedures.
Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems.
Makes authoritative decisions and recommendations that impact organizational activities and culture.
Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests.
Leads programs with complex features with work performed directly, or by others.
Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems.
Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas.
Demonstrates ethical leadership, behavior, and decision making.
Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues.
Integrates different forms of effective and persuasive communication to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice.
Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials, or other organizations and companies.
Promotes justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion within their organizational segment.
Communications are characterized as strategic interactions between stakeholders with mutual awareness and interests.
Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits.
Implements staff development plans within their organizational segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills.
Advocates for and establishes professional attitudes within the organization.
Evaluates the effectiveness of leaders and teams, and their understanding and application of concepts of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.