Description
Summary
- This posting is for a Staff Engineer through Senior Engineer position within the Transmission Engineering Substation Design group.
- This position is 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.
Key Roles & Responsibilities Other duties may be assigned. Directly or through others, the incumbent will:
Staff Engineer
With minimal supervision:
- 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.
- Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs such as Microstation, Outlook, PETE, and Microsoft Office products.
- Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems such as MAXIMO and FIM.
- 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.
- Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.
Senior Engineer
With minimal supervision:
- 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.
- Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs such as Microstation, Outlook, PETE, and Microsoft Office products.
- Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems such as MAXIMO and FIM.
- 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.
- Represent Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.
- Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.
Education, Experience, & Skills
The minimum requirements are:
Staff Engineer
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline.
- Generally, requires four years of comparable engineering experience
- 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 back grounds.
- Familiarity in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
- Working subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
- Must have familiarity of the 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.
Contact
Oncor Electric Delivery
1616 Woodall Rogers Freeway
Dallas
Texas United States
www.oncor.com
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