Power Delivery Structural Engineer

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HDR Engineering is looking for a Power Delivery Civil/Structural Engineer (for both our Transmission Line and Substation teams) to join our growing and nationally ranked team of Power Delivery professionals.

The Power Delivery Civil/Structural Engineer has broad technical knowledge and experience with the structural design components of high voltage electrical transmission lines, switchyards, and substation projects up to 500kV, including physical substation design, steel structure calculations and design, and foundation design.  Leveraging that knowledge and experience, they work in close coordination with Project Managers (PM) and project teams in multiple office locations to lead, oversee, review, and/or execute the structural engineering and design components of transmission line and substation projects. The Senior Civil/Structural Engineer may also train, mentor, and guide junior engineers across the practice and help develop and implement best practices to advance our capabilities across this discipline.

In the role of Power Delivery Structural Engineer, we'll count on you to: 

• Lead, oversee, review, and/or execute structural engineering tasks for a variety of transmission line and substation structural members, utilizing folded plate tubular steel, lattice, and/or standard shapes.  Engineering duties may include detailed design, calculations, and detailing for fabrication or development of loading and concept drawings for submittal to a steel manufacturer to design and fabricate.

• Lead, oversee, review, and/or execute foundation design tasks for transmission line and substation structures, including drilled piers, spread footings, grillage, driven piles, and potentially other types, using industry standard software. 

• May support, lead, or review transmission line design tasks, including PLS-CADD modeling, structure spotting and design, and associated bills of materials.

• May support physical substation layout designs, plans, elevations/sections, details, and associated bills of materials.

• Prepare equipment specifications for procurement and/or factory acceptance testing

• Assigns project tasks and provides technical guidance to project team members.

• Coordinates and/or performs quality checks and reviews for project deliverables per the HDR Quality Management Systems (QMS) requirements, processes, and procedures to deliver a world class quality product to the client. Performs quality checks and/or reviews of projects from other teams on an as needed basis. 

• Collaborate with transmission line civil/structural engineers to cross-train and share resources.

• Works independently and may direct, mentor, train, and/or supervise one or more Project Engineers, EIT’s, or CADD/Designers.

• Ability to lead multiple projects concurrently, utilizing teams in different locations.

• Works with senior engineers and technical leaders to identify and develop specific technical expertise and will attend training and seminars focused on further development and understanding of complex concepts related to their discipline.

• May also assist with developing technical papers and/or presentations that showcase HDR’s technical capabilities at industry conferences or other events.

   

• Participates in project reviews as needed.   

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Structural Engineering.

• SE license or ability to obtain preferred. SE license in Hawaii and California is a plus.

• Technical design experience with high voltage electrical transmission line, switchyard and/or substation projects of varying complexity, including foundation and steel structural design

• Familiarity with the latest NESC, NEC, IEEE, and other power industry standards.

• Familiarity with the latest AISC, ASCE, ANSI, and other industry standards.

• Experience using industry standard design software, including PLS-Tower and Mathcad Prime.

• Experience using industry standard design software such as L-Pile and MFAD.

• Due to client contract requirements US Born Citizenship required.

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