Engineer Thru Senior

Engineer thru Senior

Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 143,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.

Position Summary

As an Engineer at Oncor, you're responsible for planning and designing transmission facilities to expand and maintain a safe and reliable electric grid, primarily relating to the 765kV. This role is responsible for engineering design and project support for transmission station design projects.

We are considering applicants with multiple experience levels. Please view all details related to responsibilities, education, and experience level for each level of consideration.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, schedule, and provide construction management of the planned projects for the 765kV extra high voltage system capital projects, to ensure that sound engineering and Oncor standards are incorporated.
• Produce engineering physical and electrical designs drawings, specifications, and bills of material for 765kV/345kV switching station construction projects in accordance with Company practices while meeting appropriate performance standards. This will require the use of engineering disciplines and practices.
• Prepare budgetary cost estimates and Work Authorizations to obtain financial approval for assigned projects.
• Initiate requests for project material and contract labor and perform technical evaluations of the resulting vendor/contractor bids and designs.
• Coordinate the construction of assigned projects through the use of scheduling, material requisition, and construction meetings such that the overall project objectives are met.
• Communicate, coordinate, and interface with other areas of the Company and with others external to the Company to assure that designs and construction practices are appropriate.
• Effectively communicates and resolves minor issues with other workgroups while presenting detailed documentation and plans ranging from basic to slightly complex design.
• Utilize personal computer-based engineering design, communication, scheduling, estimating, and word processing computer programs such as Microsoft Office products and computer-aided design (CAD) software platforms.
• Utilize mainframe computer-based material processing and accounting systems.
• Provide design solutions and engineering designs as requested to resolve substation and switching station performance problems.
• Provide technical assistance to Transmission operations and maintenance organizations of Oncor.
• Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements

Staff Engineer's will perform all responsibilities mentioned above with minimal supervision and additional tasks below:

• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.

Senior Engineer's will perform all responsibilities mentioned above with minimal supervision and additional tasks below:

• Represent Transmission Engineering on internal technical committees.

Skills:

• Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Must be flexible, have organizational skills, and multi-tasking skills to handle large volumes of work. This requires setting priorities and designing multiple projects without having full project requirements known.
• Must possess multi functionality skills to influence changes and effectively work across disciplines and functions to achieve common goals and company business purposes. Capable of working with people of divergent back grounds.
• Familiarity in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
• Basic subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Must have general understanding of the transmission system to provide technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

In addition to the skills above, Staff Engineer's will also possess:

• Working subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Must have familiarity of the transmission system to provide technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

In addition to the skills above, Senior Engineer's will also possess:

• Proficient in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications, or demonstrable capability of obtaining proficiency in these applications.
• Advanced subject knowledge, leadership, and design experience to provide engineering design and coordination services for system wide transmission station projects.
• Must be technically strong to provide direct technical support to the field organizations and to support the field organization in restoring service outages caused by equipment failures, weather, miss-operations, and human errors.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor of Science Degree in an Engineering discipline required.

For Engineer level:

• 2+ years of comparable engineering experience required.

For Staff Engineer level:

• 4+ years of comparable engineering experience required.

For Senior Engineer level:

• 6+ years of comparable engineering experience required.

Applicants with a Professional Engineer (PE) license in the state of Texas are encouraged to apply.

Measure of Success:

• Technical issues are timely and effectively resolved, documented, and communicated.
• On time, within budget project completion.

Benefits

At Oncor, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, compensation and performance management programs designed specifically to attract, retain, motivate and reward our high-performing workforce. Our supportive and inclusive culture allows every team member the opportunity to thrive and make a difference. We invest in our employee's success and well-being by offering such things as:

• Annual incentive program.
• Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).
• Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,000 in 2025) and other wellbeing resources.
• 401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.
• 401k match with student debt program.
• Cash balance pension plan.
• Adoption Assistance.
• Mental health resources.
• Employee resource groups.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.
• Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.

Participation in benefit programs for employees in collective bargaining units is subject to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.