Substation Engineering Supervisor - Professional Engineer Job at Actalent

Actalent Remote

From $140,000 a year

Position Summary

Actalent connects passion with purpose. We are supporting critical engineering and sciences initiatives that advance how companies serve the world. With almost 40 years of experience, our scalable talent solutions and engineering and sciences services provide the expertise our customers need to achieve more.

The Supervisor is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department, establishing the budgets and schedules of the projects in their department, and reporting metrics and statuses to their Manager and the customer. They will provide leadership and direction to their direct reports and overall teams in terms of technical and non-technical guidance. They will also be responsible for helping to grow the business and execute the current workflow.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and training in Substation Engineering to the department and provide one-on-one mentorship and training to the Leads
  • Establish, monitor, and maintain quality control standards for design services standards and products
  • Monitor and maintain the budgets and schedules for all projects and workflows utilizing designated systems/procedures
  • Develop and/or review the conceptual project scopes and communicate the scope to multiple stakeholders; provide cost estimates for projects.
  • Hold teams accountable to project estimates and schedules/deadlines given to customer; make sure change orders are issued in a timely manner when appropriate and necessary
  • Directly manage Leads and individual contributors in department
  • Work with internal Leads as well as customer to drive business processes to make sure workflow and workload is efficient and effective
  • Complete written technical performance reports and make periodic presentations to management, and/or teams concerning project status, budget, and performance
  • Determine customer’s needs and work with customer and internal team to make sure processes run smoothly
  • Distribute workflow from customer to internal Leads to allocate to their teams (all projects filter through Supervisor)
  • Interface, and be the liaison, with the customer on problems and inefficiencies
  • Resolve problems that arise on invoicing, resourcing, and staffing
  • Work out resolutions to disagreements between customer and internal team on processes and issues
  • Proactively pursue solutions regarding personnel issues including hiring, firing, promotions, demotions, attendance issues, scheduling and performance reviews
  • Utilize Microsoft Office and customer-specific software/applications to complete all tasks
  • Supervise work of the project team; responsible for hiring, termination, promotion, demotion, coaching, performance evaluations, and employee relations; drive training and development of team through leads.

Education and Experience Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • 10+ years of experience engineering and managing electric substation projects
  • 4+ years of experience leading or supervising a technical design or engineering team
  • Professional Engineering license, or the ability and willingness to obtain a PE license within an agreed timeframe

Requisite Abilities, Skills and Values

  • Demonstrated leadership skills managing large or small teams of diverse skill sets
  • Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge of typical engineering tools and software for this line of work, including CDEGS and L-Pile.
  • Working knowledge of Microstation (or equivalent) and Bentley ProjectWise
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access)
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Customer focused
  • Desire to develop self and others: technically, professionally and personally
  • High regard for personal integrity, ethics and values
  • Willing to give appropriate trust to Actalent management
  • Clearly understands the value of supporting and managing diversity in the workplace
  • Team player with ability to work in a highly cross-functional environment
  • Highly proficient in PC applications
  • Ability to Travel up to 25-40% for site visits and/or leadership meetings

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible schedule
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus pay

Application Question(s):

  • Now or anytime in the future will you require visa sponsorship?

Experience:

  • 4 kV to 69 kV system: 10 years (Preferred)
  • substation design: 5 years (Preferred)
  • Directly Managing Teams: 5 years (Preferred)
  • substation project management: 10 years (Preferred)

License/Certification:

  • Professional Engineer (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

  • 50% (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote




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