Transmission Engineering Substation Design – Staff Engineer Thru Senior Engineer

Transmission Engineering Substation Design – Staff Engineer thru Senior Engineer

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.

This posting is for a Staff Engineer through Senior Engineer position within the Transmission Engineering Substation Design group. This position is responsible for planning and designing transmission facilities to expand and maintain a safe and reliable electric grid. Primary responsibilities include engineering design and project support responsibilities for transmission station design projects.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, schedule, and provide construction management of the planned projects for the electric 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 substation and switching station construction projects in accordance with Company practices while meeting appropriate performance standards.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide resource engineer support to contractor engineering firms for station projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on station design topics.
• Performs all essential aspects and functions of the job as well as any other specific job requirements.

Senior Engineer- In addition to the above:

• 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.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering discipline is required.

Experience:

Staff Engineer:

• Generally, requires four years of comparable engineering experience.
• Familiarity in the use of Transmission Engineering specific computer applications.
• 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.

Senior Engineer:

• Generally, requires six years of comparable engineering experience.
• Applicants with a Professional Engineer license in the state of Texas are encouraged to apply.
• 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.

Measures of Success:

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

Benefits:

• 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.