Lead Electrical Substation Engineering Manager

Atwell, LLC; Atwell (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonuses

401K match

Tuition Assistance

Student Loan Repayment

Licensing Fees Reimbursement

Wellness Reimbursement

Dependent Care Match

Medical, Dental, Vision

Job summary

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager for Electrical Engineering (Utilities) to lead a team of engineers, designers, and drafters. You will guide technical scopes and ensure timely, high-quality design deliverables across multi-project assignments.

You will oversee workload planning, budgets, and performance, while coordinating with Project Managers, leaders, and clients to mitigate risks and improve processes. Strong PE-licensed leadership with 6–10 years of substations experience is required.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Ability to maintain accountability for team deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
• Strong workload-planning and resource-forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate-to-complete information.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
• Strong QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, coordination, and execution concerns.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting the assigned specialty.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
• Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, development planning, and succession planning.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, growth, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance with leadership.

Skills

Team leadership

Workload forecasting

QA/QC capability

Budgeting & cost control

Stakeholder communication

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Electrical engineering knowledge

Education

PE license

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Project budgeting

Job description

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager for Electrical Engineering (Utilities) to lead a team of engineers, designers, and drafters. You will guide technical scopes and ensure timely, high-quality design deliverables across multi-project assignments.

You will oversee workload planning, budgets, and performance, while coordinating with Project Managers, leaders, and clients to mitigate risks and improve processes. Strong PE-licensed leadership with 6–10 years of substations experience is required.