Description
Leidos is seeking a Transmission Line Engineer to join their dynamic EPC Solutions Team. You will design overhead and underground transmission systems for major developer and utility clients. The team focuses on close collaboration across engineering disciplines, with a PE mentor invested in helping you grow into the next stage of your career.
Responsibilities:
- Design and analyze transmission structures using PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and PLS-TOWER, applying NESC, ASCE, ACI, IEEE, and related standards
- Support projects from conceptual routing and engineering analysis through material procurement and construction-ready packages
- Collaborate with designers and engineers from other disciplines, plus project management teams
- Participate in client-facing project work, building communication skills
- Work under the direct guidance of a licensed PE, with increasing ownership of design decisions
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform structure spotting and transmission line design in PLS-CADD to verify conductor clearances and loading under NESC or GO95
- Design and analyze steel, wood, concrete, or fiberglass transmission structures using PLS-POLE
- Perform foundation design or analysis for direct-embed and drilled-pier structures in MFAD or LPILE
- Prepare construction packages, including creating the basis of design, plan and profiles, staking sheets, bill of materials, structure data sheets, alignment maps, stringing charts, steel packages, foundation drawings, etc.
- Coordinate with the Construction prime on material procurement, material specs, and constructability
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil, Structural, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering
- 4+ years of relevant experience in electric utility transmission line design with Bachelor's degree OR 3 years of relevant combined experience with a Master's degree
- Proficiency in both PLS-CADD and PLS-POLE
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently while staying plugged into a team
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with TOWER
- EIT certification (or actively pursuing)
- Exposure to FAD, Mathcad, AutoCAD or MicroStation, LPILE, or GIS tools
- Familiarity with Bentley ProjectWise
Benefits:
- Mentorship that matters , direct PE supervision means real technical guidance
- Room to grow , clear path toward independent design ownership, EIT/PE milestones, and eventually leading your own scopes
- Genuine cross-training , early exposure to structural and construction considerations
- Work that ships , your designs become physical infrastructure, not shelved deliverables