Manager - Renewable Substations

Atwell, LLC; United States; In loco; USD 100.000 - 165.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible work schedules

Tenure Awards — Travel Vouchers

Competitive compensation packages

Annual bonuses

401K match

Tuition Assistance

Student Loan Repayment

Licensing/Certification Fees

Licensure rewards

Annual wellness reimbursement

Dependent Care Match

Descrizione del lavoro

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager in Renewable Substations to lead engineers, designers, drafters, and technicians across electrical engineering scopes for renewable substations and related facilities. The role emphasizes people leadership, technical oversight, workload planning, and development of the team to meet project commitments.

Responsibilities include coaching, forecasting, budget awareness, QA/QC, and collaboration with Project Managers and leadership to deliver safe, compliant, and

Competenze

• Lead multidisciplinary technical teams and coach them to success.
• Ensure deliverables meet quality and schedule requirements.
• Forecast workload and manage resources for multiple projects.
• Understand project budgets, forecasts, and controls.
• Perform QA/QC reviews and ensure compliance with standards.
• Support scopes, estimates, and proposals for new work.
• Communicate clearly with PMs, leaders, and clients.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams on electrical designs.

Mansioni

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals.
• Maintain accountability for accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering scopes.
• Establish expectations and develop employees through coaching and training.
• Coordinate workload, staffing, and project coverage with PMs and leaders.
• Oversee substation electrical engineering and design activities.
• Provide QA/QC reviews and reinforce codes and standards.
• Support field activities, startup, commissioning, and value engineering.
• Collaborate with design, studies, SCADA, civil, and project-management teams.

Conoscenze

Team leadership

QA/QC

Workload forecasting

Budgeting

Risk assessment

Communication

Proposal support

Electrical engineering

PE licensed

Formazione

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Descrizione del lavoro

Who We Are

Atwell, LLC is a bold leader in the consulting, engineering, and construction services industry, delivering a broad range of creative solutions to clients in the real estate & land development, and energy markets. We have a strong national presence and a diverse, award-winning project portfolio. Atwell is a privately owned company, with 2,000+ passionate team members across 75+ locations and growing!

• Ten consecutive years in a row as a “Best Place to Work” by Zweig Group (#11)
• Recognized as #70 in the ENR Top 500 Design Firms, ranked in every region
• Recognized in Crain's “Fast 50” as one of the fastest-growing companies (#14)
• Recognized as the 2025 ENR Design Firm of the year for the Southeast US

About The Position

As a Manager in Renewable Substations, you will lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals responsible for electrical engineering scopes supporting renewable substations and related facilities. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload planning, quality accountability, project support, and team development. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in the essential functions outlined below.

Essential 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, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
• Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate work assignments, training, and mentoring based on project requirements and employee development needs.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
• 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 in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
• Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
• Support improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee substation electrical engineering and design, including one-line and three-line diagrams, control and relaying schematics, wiring, SCADA and communications, conduit and cable systems, grounding, equipment selection, specifications, general arrangements, estimates, and schedules.
• Oversee power-system studies, protective relay settings, relaying and control-system activities, equipment review, submittals, and related technical documentation.
• Provide or coordinate QA/QC reviews of engineering and design deliverables and reinforce applicable codes, standards, client requirements, and construction practices.
• Support field assistance, testing, troubleshooting, observation reporting, start-up, commissioning, and value-engineering activities.
• Coordinate project work with design, studies, physical engineering, SCADA, civil, structural, and project-management teams.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
• Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and documentation for new work and project changes in coordination with Project Managers.
• Partner with Project Managers and technical leaders to coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes.
• Support proposal development, marketing activities, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
• Support client relationships by helping resolve technical and delivery concerns and promoting consistent, responsive service.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Must-Have 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 technical-review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
• Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project-delivery concerns and elevate issues appropriately.
• Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project-change documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong working knowledge of renewable-substation electrical engineering, including medium- and low-voltage distribution, switchgear, motor control, instrumentation and controls, Protection and Control, SCADA, grounding, and power-system studies.
• Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned specialty.
• Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 6-10 years of experience in renewable-substation, utility-substation, electrical-power, engineering, field, or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
• Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.

Additional Position Details

• Work is performed in a professional work environment, with work location and reporting expectations determined by business needs and position requirements. Some field work may be required.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and operate a computer and other office productivity equipment.
• Frequently communicates and collaborates with clients, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Must be able to move around project sites and work in indoor or outdoor environments as required.
• Travel may be required based on client and project needs.

Cultural Fit

• Independent yet Collaborative
• Dependable
• Creative Problem Solver
• Natural Communicator
• Flexible
• Results Oriented
• Client Focused
• Enthusiastic

Fair Labor Standards Act

• Exempt | Overtime pay is not required.

Disclaimer

• The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to perform the job.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.
• If current job responsibilities differ from assigned duties, please contact Human Resources.

Pay Range

$100,000—$165,000 USD

Atwell Benefits:

To attract and retain the best professionals in the industry, we aim to provide an excellent working environment and a progressive benefits program designed to support your personal and professional needs.

Work/Life

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible work schedules are available for some positions
• Tenure Awards — Travel Vouchers to see the world based on your travel preferences

Compensation

• Competitive Compensation packages
• Annual bonuses, spot bonuses and peer recognition awards
• 401K match - 1:1 up to 4% of compensation
• Tuition Assistance
• Student Loan RepaymentPaid Licensing / Certification Fees and Renewals
• Financial Rewards for Obtaining Licensure
• Employee Referrals
• Annual Wellness Reimbursement for anything wellness related (Gym memberships, fitness tracker, home gym equipment, etc.)
• Dependent Care Match

‘Atwell’ness

• Medical (BC/BS), Dental (Delta), and Vision (VSP)
• Family Planning & IVF Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Health Savings Account & Flex Spending Account options
• Employer paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
• Metlife Supplemental Benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
• Member Assistance Program (MAP) with complimentary counseling sessions, legal benefits, financial consultations, and work/life referral services