Manager - Transmission Engineering

Atwell, LLC; Atwell (NY); In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Atwell, LLC is seeking a Manager - Transmission to lead engineers, designers, and technicians in overhead transmission and related projects. You will oversee planning, technical reviews, and multi-project coordination to ensure quality, safety, and client satisfaction.

The role emphasizes staff development, workload forecasting, and budgeting, with collaboration across project managers and leadership. Travel may be required to support diverse utility clients.

Competenze

• Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary transmission engineering teams.
• Advanced knowledge of overhead transmission and related design practices.
• Experience with plan and profile design, structure loading, grounding and foundations.

Mansioni

• Lead and develop engineers, designers, and technicians.
• Manage workload forecasting, resource planning, and scheduling.
• Ensure project coverage meets scope, schedule, budget, safety, and client objectives.
• Coordinate design packages and technical reviews for quality and compliance.
• Support proposal development and client communications.

Conoscenze

Leadership

Coaching

Resource forecasting

Team management

Communication

QA/QC oversight

Formazione

Bachelor degree in Civil/Mechanical/Cul Engineering-related field

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Strumenti

PLS-CADD

AutoCAD

Descrizione del lavoro

Atwell, LLC

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!

Atwell, LLC is a proud recipient of the following 2025 awards:

• 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

The Manager - Transmission leads teams of engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals responsible for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of overhead transmission and related transmission line engineering scopes. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload and resource planning, operational management, and project-delivery support to ensure appropriate project coverage and consistent achievement of scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety, and client objectives. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in regard to the essential functions of the job below.

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting transmission projects.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of transmission 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 training, mentoring, and work assignments.
• 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.
• Drive improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee the planning, coordination, and detailed engineering and design of overhead transmission and related distribution-line projects from small to large scale.
• Oversee development and review of design packages, including plan and profile drawings, pole-assembly details, pole grounding and guying details, steel framing details, structure loading diagrams, structure design and fabrication details, foundation design, construction details, and supporting calculation packages.
• Provide or coordinate technical and QA/QC reviews of engineering calculations, models, drawings, specifications, reports, and construction deliverables to support quality, accuracy, constructability, and compliance.
• Ensure work reflects applicable utility and client requirements, engineering standards, structural-design principles, material requirements, and construction practices.
• Provide technical guidance and training to engineers and technical staff and coordinate work across engineering, design, field, project-management, client, and contractor stakeholders.
• Identify, address, and elevate technical, constructability, quality, coordination, and project-delivery concerns to support timely resolution and project continuity.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
• Prepare or support technical documents and reports, including cost estimates, budget reports, proposals, studies, schedules, assumptions, and project-change documentation.
• 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 and communications 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 transmission engineering and design teams.
• Advanced knowledge of overhead transmission and related distribution-line engineering, design, project delivery, applicable utility standards, and construction practices.
• Advanced knowledge of plan and profile design, structure spotting, pole assemblies, grounding and guying, structure loading, steel framing, foundations, structural analysis, and construction documentation.
• 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, milestone dates, and estimate-to-complete information.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, engineering estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
• Strong technical-review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify engineering, constructability, compliance, coordination, quality, 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, studies, and project-change documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, organizational leaders, clients, utilities, contractors, field personnel, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Advanced proficiency with PLS-CADD and proficiency with AutoCAD; knowledge of structure-spotting and transmission-line design applications applicable to assigned work.
• Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business-productivity tools applicable to transmission engineering.
• Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related engineering or technical discipline from an accredited institution.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 6-10 years of experience in overhead transmission-line, distribution-line, structural, civil, mechanical, engineering, design, field, or related technical field.
• Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience producing or reviewing transmission-line design packages, structure-loading or foundation work, engineering calculations, and construction documentation.
• Experience supporting QA/QC, engineering estimates, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, client relationships, and operational improvement.
• 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
• Flexible
• Results Oriented
• Client Focused
• 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