V Station Design Engineer thru Senior

Salary Range: $87,182-$145,509
Relocation:
Yes

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 143,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.

As an Engineer at Oncor, you’re responsible for planning and designing transmission facilities to expand and maintain a safe and reliable electric grid, primarily relating to the 765kV. This role is responsible for engineering design and project support for transmission station design projects.

We are considering applicants with multiple experience levels. Please view all details related to responsibilities, education, and experience level for each level of consideration.

• Design, plan, schedule, and provide construction management of the planned projects for the 765kV extra 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 765kV/345kV 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 work groups 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 Microsoft Office products and computer-aided design (CAD) software platforms.
• Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems.
• 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.
• Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements

Staff Engineer’s will perform all responsibilities mentioned above with minimal supervision and additional tasks below:

• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.

Senior Engineer’s will perform all responsibilities mentioned above with minimal supervision and additional tasks below:

• Represent Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.

• 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.
• Basic subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
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