About the Role
We are hiring an upbeat, dedicated, and skilled technical leader with utility engineering design experience to manage a team in a fast-paced, high-output work environment. As Supervisor, Engineering Support, you will lead a team responsible for developing detailed transmission facility scopes aimed at improving LCRA Transmission Services Corporation’s system. You will also help enable the interconnection of a diverse and increasing mix of resources and loads to the ERCOT grid. Your responsibilities include providing leadership and mentorship, prioritizing team activities, ensuring quality assurance, and maintaining effective relationships with multiple project collaborators.
Responsibilities
- Create and promote a culture built upon the values of safety, integrity, respect, initiative, and service within the team.
- Deliver leadership and management for staff, including establishing targets, recruiting, handling performance evaluations, coaching, counseling, mentoring, and facilitating chances for advancement.
- Maintain awareness of department issues and respond to employee needs and concerns, ensuring accurate and timely dissemination of information.
- Plan, schedule, and assign project tasks and work to the team; monitor progress and interpret results to ensure timely completion of assignments.
- Provide leadership for complex projects and/or studies, potentially serving as a resident specialist.
- Deliver quality assurance and quality control management for the team's work, ensuring engineering documents, drawings, and work are detailed, accurate, and properly maintained.
Requirements
- Nine or more years of experience in transmission operations, maintenance, planning, engineering, technology, or other relevant experience.
- A degree(s) in math, computer science, engineering, or related field may be substituted per LCRA guidelines for certain years of experience.
- Driver's license.
Skills
- Substation design experience.
- Managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Analyzing and solving complex problems.
- Data analytic and workflow skills in tools like MS Excel, SharePoint, Asana, or Jira.
- Developing and interpreting diagrams, schematics, and drawings.
- Using Engineering Drawing Management Systems and CAD applications.
- Articulating complex, technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of applicable engineering principles, laws, standards, codes, and documentation specific to the area of engineering specialization.
Location
- Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Nine or more years of experience
- At least 5 years of post-graduate direct experience in the public utility industry
- Supervisory, managerial, or project management experience
Education Level
- Degree(s) in math, computer science, engineering, or related field
Benefits
- Healthcare
- Wellness programs
- Time off
About the Company
- LCRA Transmission Services Corporation is focused on the growing electrification of our energy system and supporting economic growth in Texas.
- We aim to improve Texas’s energy grid reliability by enabling the interconnection of new generation technologies like solar, wind, and battery storage.
Equal Opportunity
- LCRA provides equal employment opportunities and a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
- All employment decisions are based on business need, job requirement and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status.
- LCRA is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities.
