Site Civil Engineer, Power Delivery

AECOM is an infrastructure consulting and engineering firm delivering energy and power infrastructure solutions. The Civil Site Engineer, Power Delivery will lead site civil engineering work for transmission and substation projects, including design, construction support, technical leadership, and coordination with multidisciplinary teams and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage all civil work at substation and transmission line sites, ensuring compliance with approved drawings, specifications and construction schedules
• Create and supervise earthwork, grading, drainage systems, access roads, cable trenches and foundations (equipment, controls buildings and towers/poles) and to substation and transmission lines
• Review, interpret and create civil design drawings, technical documents, report discrepancies and provide practical solutions
• Manage site surveys to include (geotechnical and ground/LIDAR) to assist with determination of transmission line routes and substation layouts
• Review and approve civil construction methodologies, work plans and method statements submitted by contractors
• Identify and mitigate site issues such as geotechnical conditions, access and environmental constraints and constructability challenges by providing timely technical support
• Coordination closely with electrical, protection, commissioning, planning and project management to resolve interface and constructability issues
• Interact with customer’s internal engineers and technical experts on a day-to-day basis
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with clients
• Provide technical leadership to site civil engineers, inspectors, assign tasks, review work and mentor team members
• Fully versed with and can check and review the work sequence, general content and the methods used to generate specifications for the calculations as well as the approval, revision, retention and storage of calculations
• Assists with the developing task and effort estimates for proposal support
• Support project commissioning and hand over by ensuring that all site civil work is completed safely and to specification
• Understands and assists with the planning and scheduling of engineering tasks within the site civil discipline
• Works to maintain positive working relationships with peers
• Occasional travel required to other AECOM locations and Client sites
• Able to participate in field walks and create field sketches, take dimensions, climb ladders, etc. as necessary

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and 6 years of relevant experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Proven experience with site grading, drainage, roads, earthworks, and substation layout development and transmission access/alignment
• Proficiency in AutoCAD or MicroStation for civil design and detailing
• Understanding of substation site planning, transmission/substation access requirements, and integration with electrical layouts
• Sponsorship for US Employment Authorization is not available for this position
• Professional Engineering license (P.E.)
• 10+ years of relevant site civil experience with at least three of those years acting as project technical lead and/or engineer of record
• Strong knowledge of international civil and design standards (IEC, BS, IEEE, ANSI etc.)
• Experience with construction supervision, site inspection, and commissioning support
• Knowledge of hydrological analysis tools, stormwater modeling, or civil 3D/BIM software
• Experience in GIS or AIS substation developments
• Familiarity with major utility or transmission operator standards
• Self-motivated
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Success in working with remote teams
• Experience on full EPC, Design/Build projects from start to finish
• Owner's Engineering experience
• Experience with retrofit or brown field projects
• Exposure to supporting renewable generation project