Transmission Engineering Substation Design – thru Senior

Transmission Engineering Substation Design – Staff thru Senior

About Us: Oncor Electric Delivery is the sixth largest electric transmission and distribution utility in the country, serving ten million customers in 400+ cities across Texas. Oncor is leading the way in providing superior reliability while deploying one of the most advanced utility technology platforms in the nation. Our team of dedicated professionals is committed to responsible environmental stewardship, while working passionately to empower our customers’ modern lives through the safe, reliable and efficient delivery of electricity.

Salary Range: $97,583 - $145,509

Relocation: No

Position Overview: As a Transmission Engineering Substation Design Engineer at Oncor you’re 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 for transmission station design projects.

• 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.
• 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 communicate and resolve minor issues with other work groups 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.

• 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.

• Staff Engineer:
  Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline and 4+ years of relevant engineering experience required.
• Senior Engineer:
  Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline and 6+ years of relevant engineering experience required. Professional Engineer license in any state encouraged.

• Technical issues are timely and effectively resolved, documented, and communicated.
• On time, within budget project completion.
• Learn and utilize personal computer‑based engineering…