Engineering Tech​/Sr - Electric

Position Title: Engineering Tech 1/2/Sr - Electric

Location: Des Moines, IA, United States

The engineering technician – electric provides cost estimating, design, work instructions, and coordination of extensions or modifications of electric distribution facilities. The engineering technician – electric applies established engineering standards and practices for routine projects in the following areas: determining pipe, cable, and equipment sizes due to customer and system loads; project design alternatives and their associated costs; project timing and coordination;

procurement of materials and field inspection; and all other assigned duties.

• Provide engineering services for cost estimating, design, work instructions, and coordination of construction and maintenance projects on Mid American Energy Company's electric delivery system. (20%)
• Prepare routine construction work requests, including work instruction preparation, construction site drawings, preparation of material lists, and engineering calculations. (20%)
• Perform a variety of routine field work including, but not limited to locating and sizing services, load determination, utility easement acquisition, staking, and minor survey work. (15%)
• Actively engage with customer requests and respond to service needs as appropriate. Work collaboratively with residential and commercial construction developers. (15%)
• Provide routine project management for all phases of a project including scheduling, design, estimates, drawings, cost tracking, and project cost projections. (10%)
• Verify and document construction site readiness, ensuring MEC requirements are met for backfill, grading, and conduit installation requirements. (5%)
• Provide customers with scheduling notifications as appropriate (may include but not limited to email, text alerts, and/or phone calls). Also provide customers with scheduling change notifications via the same mediums. (5%)
• Provide support for work requests, resolve issues, and ensure crews understand work scope, detail, and structure. (5%)
• Ensure that customer inquiries and engineering detail adhere to standard operating procedures involving tariff application, extension rules and agreements, service rules, code requirements, service entrance, and metering requirements. (0‑5%)
• Be responsible for emergency response activities, outage response supervisory activities, outage dispatch, downed wire investigation, and field damage assessment. (0‑5%)
• May require travel and overnight stay as workload dictates. (0‑5%)
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested or assigned. (0‑5%)
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of human performance improvement techniques. Evaluate present practices and implement processes, concepts, training and tools to prevent, detect and correct human errors that may adversely impact the safe, reliable operation of the electric distribution system.

• Associate's degree in a technical field such as civil, electrical, mechanical, construction, computer aided drafting, electrical trade, project management, or equivalent work experience. (Typically three years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess an associate's degree in a technical field.)
• Two years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design is required for the engineering technician level.
• Three or more years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design is required for the engineering technician II level.
• Five or more years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design is required for the senior engineering technician level.
• In lieu of an associate's degree and work experience a bachelor's degree will be considered.
• Effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Effective analytical and…