Transmission Engineering Substation Design – Staff thru Senior

Oncor Electric Delivery • Fort Worth, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Transmission Engineering Substation Design Engineer at Oncor, you are responsible for planning and designing transmission facilities to expand and maintain a safe and reliable electric grid. Primary responsibilities include engineering design and project support responsibilities for transmission station design projects. We are considering applicants with multiple experience levels and skills. Please see below for minimum experience requirements for each level.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical, Civil, and/or Mechanical Engineering required.
• 4+ years of relevant engineering experience required (for Staff Engineer).
• 6+ years of relevant engineering experience required (for Senior Engineer).
• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be flexible, have organizational skills, and multi-tasking skills to handle large volumes of work. This requires setting priorities and designing multiple projects without having full project requirements known.
• Must possess multi functionality skills to influence changes and effectively work across disciplines and functions to achieve common goals and company business purposes.
• Capable of working with people of divergent backgrounds.
• Familiarity and/or proficiency in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
• Working subject and/or advanced knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Must have familiarity and/or is technically strong with transmission system to provide technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

Nice To Haves

• Applicants with a Professional Engineer license in any state encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, schedule, and provide construction management of the planned projects for the electric high voltage system capital projects, to ensure that sound engineering and Oncor standards are incorporated.
• Produce engineering physical and electrical designs drawings, specifications, and bills of material for substation and switching station construction projects in accordance with Company practices while meeting appropriate performance standards. This will require the use of engineering disciplines and practices.
• Prepare budgetary cost estimates and Work Authorizations to obtain financial approval for assigned projects.
• Initiate requests for project material and contract labor and perform technical evaluations of the resulting vendor/contractor bids and designs.
• Coordinate the construction of assigned projects through the use of scheduling, material requisition, and construction meetings such that the overall project objectives are met.
• Communicate, coordinate, and interface with other areas of the Company and with others external to the Company to assure that designs and construction practices are appropriate.
• Effectively communicates and resolves minor issues with other workgroups while presenting detailed documentation and plans ranging from basic to slightly complex design.
• Provide design solutions and engineering designs as requested to resolve substation and switching station performance problems.
• Provide technical assistance to Transmission operations and maintenance organizations of Oncor.
• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.
• Additional responsibility for Senior level includes, but is not limited to, representing Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.
• Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.

Benefits

• Annual incentive program.
• Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).
• Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,300 in 2026 as an Employee only) and other wellbeing resources.
• 401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.
• 401k match with student debt program.
• Cash balance pension plan.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee resource groups.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.
• Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level