Senior Transmission Line Project Engineer 2

GAI Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Transmission Senior Project Engineer 2 to join their Power Delivery team. This role is responsible for technical leadership and the successful delivery of transmission line designs while maintaining the scope, schedule, budget, and quality of projects within GAI’s Transmission & Distribution Division.

Responsibilities:

• Complete day-to-day project tasks as required for successful project delivery. Tasks may include:
• Preparation of Specification Packages
• Preparation of Structural and Fabrication Drawings
• Design and Analysis of Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and PLS-Tower is a bonus
• Design and Analysis of foundations
• Analysis of existing and proposed structures with regard to Client and Other required codes, standards, and specifications
• Performance of Electrical Clearance checks and calculations
• Apply engineering principles to assist in the design of Power Delivery Projects
• Must demonstrate attention to detail
• Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Perform complex tasks typically following established processes
• Implements effective engineering methods, provides technical guidance, and acts as a resource for engineers and designers
• Directly manages projects with no limit to the number or value of individual projects managed
• Assist in quality control and quality assurance of active projects, providing peer and final reviews and training of engineers and designers in quality control processes
• Uses creativity, foresight, and mature judgment to anticipate and solve new problems
• Sets priorities and reconciles directions from competing interests
• Leads projects with complex features with work performed directly, or by others
• Integrates engineering economics and risk analysis into the solutions of complex engineering problems
• Integrates solutions to complex problems across specialty areas
• Demonstrates leadership
• Predominantly develops standards and guidelines
• Leads a project in the practice in their area of specialization
• Predominantly develops appropriate design alternatives for complex engineering projects that consider realistic requirements, constraints, community input, permitting, and other regulatory constraints
• Integrates advanced concepts to solve complex problems
• Oversees large or multidiscipline project teams
• Recommends personnel and funds required to carry out projects
• Oversees technical, legal, and financial issues of an entire project
• Integrates these components into a complete project management plan for a complex engineering project
• Determines project objectives and requirements
• Receives administrative supervision with assignments given in terms of broad general objectives and limits
• Implements staff development plans within their organizational segment, including technical, management, and leadership skills
• Possesses exceptional oral and written communication skills, including negotiation of critical issues and effective persuasive communication
• Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice
• Initiates and maintains extensive contacts with key engineers and officials, or other organizations and companies

Requirements:

• Transmission line design experience
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Organization
• Team-focus
• Eagerness to apply learned engineering principles to solve real life problems
• Knowledge of electric utility transmission line engineering and design
• 18+ Years of Experience
• B.S. or M.S. Engineering, Master's Degree or Equivalent Experience Preferred
• Professional Engineer (P.E.) License, reciprocity in multiple states
• Driver's License
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrates financial acumen and familiarity with legal issues related to engineering practice
• Design and Analysis of Transmission Lines using PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, and PLS-Tower is a bonus