# Distribution Engineers & Designers

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Walled Lake, MI
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Leidos is seeking Distribution Engineers & Designers in Walled Lake, Michigan, who are passionate about electric utility design engineering. The successful candidate will work directly with clients to ensure that Leidos' reputation for high-quality work is maintained.

**Responsibilities:**

- Perform design engineering for electric utility customers, primarily focusing on underground (UG) and Underground Residential Distribution (URD) systems.

- Develop detailed engineering design packages for underground electric distribution projects, including new installations, system upgrades, service extensions, relocations, and infrastructure improvements.

- Design underground distribution systems involving primary and secondary cables, conduit systems, duct banks, manholes, handholes, vaults, transformers, and associated equipment.

- Develop engineering work packages using customer GIS and Work Management Systems (WMS), such as DDS, GDT, GE Smallworld, Bentley Expert Designer, and Maximo.

- Perform underground cable and conduit routing, equipment placement, and design calculations to support safe, reliable, and cost-effective distribution systems.

- Coordinate with other utilities and stakeholders to identify and resolve conflicts involving existing underground infrastructure.

- Support engineering activities involving cable sizing, cable pulling calculations, voltage drop, equipment loading, and electrical clearance requirements.

- Assist with the development of construction drawings, material lists, cost estimates, work permits, easements, and right-of-way (ROW) applications.

- Review engineering design packages with utility customers and coordinate design modifications based on client feedback, construction requirements, and applicable standards.

- Manage assigned project scope, schedules, and budgets while maintaining quality standards and meeting client deliverable expectations.

- Collaborate with internal engineering teams, utility representatives, permitting agencies, and construction personnel to support project execution.

- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in design workflows, processes, and deliverable quality.

- Work in both field and office environments, including conducting site visits, collecting field data, verifying existing underground infrastructure, and supporting design development.

**Requirements:**

- 2+ years of relevant experience in electric utility distribution engineering or design, preferably with a focus on underground distribution systems.

- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Industrial Engineering preferred; additional relevant experience or technical certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree.

- Experience working directly for an electric utility or utility engineering consulting company performing electric distribution design.

- Hands-on experience developing underground distribution design packages, including cable and conduit layouts, equipment placement, and associated construction documentation.

- Familiarity with underground distribution infrastructure, including duct banks, manholes, vaults, pad-mounted transformers, and primary and secondary cable systems.

- Working knowledge of applicable electric utility design standards, the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), and underground construction requirements.

- Understanding of underground distribution engineering principles, including cable sizing, cable pulling calculations, voltage drop, equipment loading, and electrical clearances.

- Ability to interpret utility drawings, construction plans, GIS data, and existing underground utility information.

- Strong organizational, problem-solving, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive salary: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 per year

- Hybrid working arrangement (3 days remote, 2 days onsite)

- Career development and growth opportunities, including Professional Engineer License (PE), Project Management Professional (PMP), Leadership training, Formal Mentorship Programs, Management opportunities

## Skills

### Required
- electric utility design engineering
- underground distribution systems
- GIS
- Work Management Systems
- cable sizing
- cable pulling calculations
- voltage drop
- equipment loading
- electrical clearances

### Nice to have
- designing complex underground distribution systems
- underground cable routing
- conduit sizing
- duct bank configurations
- manhole/vault design
- utility relocations
- road improvement projects
- service upgrades
- underground infrastructure modernization

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