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About the Role

As a Senior Structural – Transmission Line Engineer, you will support design engineering and analysis on transmission scopes, including large rebuild and greenfield projects with trending technologies like HVDC and 765kV. You will collect and assimilate data, perform research, prepare calculations, and develop recommendations for equipment and materials, while understanding and working within budget, project schedule, and quality requirements. This role may involve guiding engineering team members, maintaining positive client relations, assisting with business development, and functioning as a technical specialist or lead, applying advanced engineering techniques with minimal supervision and expanding your knowledge and skill set.

Responsibilities

Support design engineering and analysis on transmission scopes.
Support large, extensive 345kV+ rebuild and greenfield projects, including trending technologies like HVDC and 765kV.
Collect and assimilate data for engineering work.
Perform research and prepare calculations in accordance with Black & Veatch and industry standards.
Develop recommendations for equipment and materials.
Understand and work successfully within budget, project schedule, and quality requirements.
May assist with providing guidance to engineering team members.
Maintain positive client relations understanding client interests and drivers through effective communication with the project team.
May assist with business development activities.
Function as a technical specialist or in a lead role.
With minimal supervision, apply advanced engineering techniques and analyses for problems and methods.
Expand knowledge and skill set in area of discipline.
Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and B&V policies.
May own, maintain, update, or develop engineering standards and guides.
Provide technical guidance to others regarding projects or disciplines.
Applies knowledge and ensures compliance with B&V quality program.
Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality.
Supports continuous improvement, change management and risk management efforts.
Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects.
Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection.
Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles.
Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements.
Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems.
Responsible for ensuring project teams delegate appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff.
Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
Is responsible for one or more of the following: leading production teams; coordinating multiple discipline activity; and serving as the responsible charge for projects.
Establishes work plan to be applied to a given project.
Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects.
Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.
Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects.
Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects.
Works to identify future client needs and how to better position B&V for the future.
May offer other services to the client.
Typically provides support to business development or pursuit activities.
Serves as the technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field.
Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems.
Typically supports multiple projects on very complex technical challenges.
Typical roles include being recognized as an industry expert, participating in professional societies by presenting papers, acting as a section lead for a large or complex specialty area, an engineering consultant for larger scale projects.
May support the chief engineers or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes.
Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions.
May participate in compensation management, succession planning, disciplinary actions, employee relations and workforce planning.
Actively mentors lower level and mid level professionals and identifies successors to train in the specifics of their role.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing
Minimum of 11 years related work experience
All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Skills

Strong Experience in 69kV to 500kV overhead transmission line design
Working knowledge and/or expertise in Power Line system based programs (i.e., PLS, PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, etc.)
Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline
Previous client interaction experience with solid relationship-building abilities in pursuit of business opportunities.
Experience with the design of utility-scale electrical transmission systems.
Structural design of transmission steel structures and their foundations.
Basic structural steel and concrete experience using 3D analysis and design software.

Location

Colorado
Illinois
Massachusetts
Minnesota
California

Work Type

Full-Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior
Minimum of 11 years related work experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Salary/Compensations

State of Colorado: $148,852-$248,578
State of Illinois: $148,852-$248,578
State of Massachusetts:$162,384-$271,176
State of Minnesota: $142,086-$237,279
State of California:$148,852-$293,774
$142,086.00 - $271,176.00

Benefits

Competitive compensation
401k match
Benefits that start day one
Flexible work schedules
Paid vacation and holiday time
Sick time
Dependent sick time
Company matched 401k plan
Adoption reimbursement
Vendor discounts
Employment referral program
AD&D insurance
Pre-taxed accounts
Voluntary legal plan
B&V Credit Union
Performance-based bonus program
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Disability insurance
Robust wellness program

About the Company

Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.
As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch.
We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world.
With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.
Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities.
Our hybrid environment allows you to balance your work and personal life.
At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning.
You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey.
Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use.
As part of BV Operations, your skills will be aligned to projects that support our 3 market sectors- Governments & Environment, Energy & Process Industries, and Connectivity & Commercial.
In roles like Engineers, Technicians, and Skilled Specialists you will be engaged with exciting projects across the globe.
From small community improvements to grand-scale Mega Projects, you will be Building a World of Difference through infrastructure growth and development while learning and focusing on your own individual development.
The foundation of BV Operations provides the ability to move where your skills are needed and allows for a collaborative and innovative culture offering greater challenges and career development opportunities.
Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
We are proud to be a 100 percent ESOP-owned company.
As employee-owners, our professionals are empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial rewards of that success through stock ownership.
By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.

Equal Opportunity

BVH, Inc., its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws and regulations.
Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy status or other status protected by law.