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Electric Distribution Design Engineer

North Charleston, SC 29406

Posted: 05/02/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Engineering Job Number: 616634 Is job remote?: No Country: United States

Job Description


Pay: $80-90/hr

Overview

?This role works with a cross-functional team of design technicians, design engineers, union represented craft employees, contract construction resources, schedulers, suppliers, and interfaces frequently with customers.

Responsibilities include:
  • Provide engineering support in electric distribution operations, maintenance and construction
  • Perform engineering calculations, analysis, research and design.
  • Coordinate with developers and customers to evaluate requests for new electric service and develop electric distribution designs to install electric infrastructure to provide customers with power.
  • Coordinate the procurement of all material to construct projects.
  • Evaluate designs for permit needs and apply for and manage permit process throughout project lifecycle.
  • Interface with construction resources to coordinate construction scheduling
  • Manage projects throughout construction and serve as a resource for construction crews as questions arise.
  • Perform engineering as-builts once construction is complete. Update drawings and associated applications to ensure accurate modeling of the electric distributions system.
  • Post material used during the course of construction and manage inventory quantities.

Top Required Skills
  • Ability to work and develop rapport with all levels of management and staff
  • Ability to lead, collaborate, or work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, including interpersonal, facilitation, and presentation capabilities
  • Ability to develop, manage and monitor project performance to ensure results meet project requirements, budgets, and schedules.
  • Ability to manage project risk through collaboration with the project team, station stakeholders, suppliers, and executive leadership.
  • Ability to coordinate the resolution of technical problems and implement changes.
  • Experience managing construction projects involving technical engineering

Nice to Have Skills:
  • Engineering or technical design background preferred.
  • Project management from design through construction preferred.
  • Experience managing a full lifecycle project from design to construction through to completion
  • Experience interacting with customers in the course of developing a design and then coordinating construction impacts with those customers once design goes to construction.

Soft Skills:
  • Strong communication skills both verbal and written
  • Ability to lead, collaborate, or work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams

Years of Experience:
  • 5+ years of directly related industry experience in the field of construction or engineering

Education:
  • Bachelor Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education
  • Other Education: Engineering, Engineering Technology, Construction Management

Industry Experience
  • Candidate must have utilities industry experience

The staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly, never provide banking information during the application process and always double check the email address of the recruiter to ensure it’s from @theplanetforward.com - and not a domain with an alternative extension like .net, .org or .jobs. Candidate safety is a top priority at Planet Forward.

Planet Forward and The Planet Group of Companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

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Although this hasn't been an issue at The Planet Group, the staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly and never provide banking information during the application process. Candidate safety is a top priority at The Planet Group.