Description

Salary Range: $84,233- $112,311

Relocation: Yes

About Us

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.

Position Overview

As a Transmission Engineer Substation Design team member at Oncor, you’ll be responsible for planning and designing transmission facilities to expand and maintain a safe and reliable electric grid. The main responsibilities include engineering design and project support responsibilities for transmission station design projects. This is a hybrid role based in our 777 Main – Fort Worth, TX office.

Role & 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.

• Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs such as Microstation, Outlook, PETE (PIP, EMT, TED, and Everything Else), and Microsoft Office products.

• Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems such as MAXIMO and FIM (Financial Information Management).

• 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.

Experience & Skills:

• 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.

• Must have general understanding 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.

• Capable of being licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Texas.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science degree in an Engineering discipline and two or more years of comparable engineering experience required.

Travel: Up to 25%

Measure of Success:

• Demonstrate the ability to timely and effectively resolve, document, and communicate technical issues.

• Demonstrate the ability to complete projects on time and within budget.

• Participates in the training of other engineers.

• Consistent and active participation in standards committees and industry organizations.

• Demonstrates technical aptitude and willingness to learn.

• Demonstrates ability to interface with external and internal business partners in a professional manner.

• Demonstrates skills in prioritization, multi-tasking and success in adapting to change.

• Demonstrates growth in knowledge of subject matter covered in Transmission and Substation Standards.

Benefits

At Oncor, we believe in investing in our employee’s success and well-being. In addition to Healthcare, Wellness Programs, Paid Time Off, 401(k) & Company Retirement Plan, and Company Perks, we offer a supportive and inclusive culture where every team member has the opportunity to thrive and make a difference.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)