Lead civil/structural engineering for electric substation projects, responsible for design, contractor oversight, and ensuring quality and budget compliance.
Civil / Structural Project Manager — Electric Substations
Requirements
Benefits
Location: Greater Los Angeles area (periodic fieldwork and office/hybrid)
Summary: Lead civil/structural engineering for electric substation projects. Responsible for technical design, contractor oversight, construction support, and ensuring projects meet schedule, cost and quality targets. Works closely with field crews, vendors, regulators and internal stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
- Lead civil/structural engineering design, calculations, detailing, and CAD drafting for substation structures and foundations.
- Prepare and review engineering deliverables: calculations, construction drawings, specifications, and reports.
- Perform periodic site visits and construction inspections; provide hands-on construction support and as-built verification.
- Manage and coordinate design contractors and third-party consultants to ensure quality, schedule and budget compliance.
- Identify technical and schedule risks; develop mitigation plans and track corrective actions.
- Participate on and sometimes lead multidisciplinary project teams; set objectives, milestones and deliverables.
- Provide mentoring, training, and technical direction to junior engineers and drafters.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, codes, standards, and company engineering practices.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders; maintain professional relationships and exercise diplomacy in conflict resolution.
- Track multiple concurrent projects; prioritize workloads to meet deadlines.
Requirements
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering (or equivalent).
- Minimum 5 years’ structural engineering experience (preferably including substation/utility projects).
- Experience working on electric substation or utility civil/structural projects.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Teams.
- Strong technical writing, calculation, and inspection skills.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes 120 hours of paid time off annually, ten paid holidays, a 3% 401(k) company match, profit sharing opportunities, and the flexibility to work remotely up to three days per week.
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