# Senior Transmission Line Project Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Boise, ID
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Transmission Line Project Engineer to provide technical leadership and guidance for the planning, design, and delivery of high-voltage overhead transmission line projects.

This Opportunity: The successful candidate will lead and execute the engineering of transmission projects up to 765kV, lead and/or support the initial project execution layout, and create and maintain a project schedule.

Your Impact: The successful candidate will be able to lead, support, and coordinate the following:

### Project Engineering Leadership

- Lead and execute the engineering of transmission projects up to 765kV

- Lead and/or support the initial project execution layout to ensure an efficient and effective project plan has been established

- Responsible for creating and maintaining a project schedule

- Conduct weekly or bi-weekly project meetings to outline upcoming deliverables and tasks with the responsible personnel identified clearly

- Coordinate with clients on project status and support project meetings as necessary

- Maintain project workflow and thorough communication across multi-disciplinary projects, both internal and external to WSP

- Forecast upcoming project requirements to assist in resource planning

- Facilitate and adhere to WSP’s QA/QC procedures

- Participate in industry conferences, both internal and external, to improve professional growth while fostering knowledge transfer to colleagues.

- Demonstrate transmission line design expertise pertaining to PLS-CADD, structure staking, foundations, assembly drawings, structure loading, material procurement, construction specifications, construction methods, construction estimates, and construction support

- Lead project teams of varying sizes

- Travel to client offices/field/vendor facilities, as needed

### Project Manager (PM) Support

- Support the Project Manager with project status reports

- Work with PMs to develop scope, schedule, and budget for new projects

- Work with PMs to identify out-of-scope items and support work scope variances

- Provide weekly or bi-weekly project updates and project forecasting

- Lead and/or support the PM with meetings with clients, both in person and remotely

- Develop client relationships, allowing WSP the opportunity to position ourselves to win future work

### Department Support

- Support resource forecasting

- Support recruitment efforts

- Provide business improvement methodologies and procedures.

- Support staff performance and technical development with department leadership

- Contribute to the business planning efforts.

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

- Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs

## Who You Are

### Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or closely related discipline (or equivalent experience)

- 10+ years of relevant post education experience in the transmission engineering field managing projects and leading multi-disciplinary teams

- Engineer license required (multi-state preferred)

- Professional Engineering (PE) licensure.

- Understanding of the NESC, RUS, and/or GO-95

- Strong understanding of transmission line fundamentals and PLS-CADD operation

- The candidate must have a strong command of the English language with good written and oral communication skills to work effectively with internal team members and external client personnel

- Experience using the Microsoft Office software suite

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

### Preferred Qualifications

- Field program planning, management, and execution

- Subcontractor management

- Cost estimating and scheduling

- Field experience

- MBA degree from an accredited university

- Involvement in technical societies (IEEE, CIGRE, ASCE…)

- Experience using ArcGIS, AutoCAD/MicroStation, Foundation Design Software (FAD Tools, SHAFT, LPILE)

- POLE and TOWER experience

## Skills

### Required
- PLS-CADD
- Microsoft Office
- English
- engineering
- transmission line design
- project management

### Nice to have
- ArcGIS
- AutoCAD
- MicroStation
- Foundation Design Software
- POLE
- TOWER
- MBA
- IEEE
- CIGRE
- ASCE

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