Senior Project Engineer-Power Network

Worley; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley is seeking a senior Power Networks engineer to lead multidisciplinary engineering activities for transmission, distribution, substations, and grid projects. You will coordinate with clients, utilities, and project teams to ensure safety, schedule, and budget alignment.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, design excellence, and adherence to standards, with responsibility for managing budgets, schedules, and scope changes across a major power networks program.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree in Electrical or related field.
• Substantial technical, practical leadership experience in Power Networks projects.
• PE licensure preferred or ability to obtain.
• Experience with transmission line, distribution, substation, protection and controls, SCADA/telecom.

Responsibilities

• Manage HSE focus within the project team and ensure safety, constructability, environmental, and operational requirements are addressed.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities for Power Networks projects to meet schedule and budget.
• Establish and maintain client and utility relationships and ensure client requirements are understood.
• Control budgets, engineering hours, procurement support, and change impacts.
• Develop and monitor project schedules; supervise engineering work per plan.
• Ensure compliance with client standards, codes, and project specifications.

Skills

Power Networks engineering

Transmission

Distribution

Substation

Protection & controls

SCADA/telecom

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

PE licensure preferred

Job description

About Us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

About Us

Worley is a global company of energy, chemicals and resources experts headquartered in Australia. We partner with our customers to deliver projects and create value across the life of their assets. We specialize in consulting, engineering, procurement and construction across the project lifecycle, with services extending through to operations and decommissioning. Leveraging extensive experience and AI-enabled delivery, we support customers in navigating complexity as they meet today's needs and transition to more sustainable solutions.

Purpose

• Manage and coordinate multidiscipline engineering activities for Power Networks projects, including transmission, distribution, substation, and grid infrastructure scopes, to ensure work is executed safely, efficiently, cost effectively, and on schedule.
• Serve as the primary technical coordination interface with clients, utilities, contractors, and project stakeholders to ensure expectations, project requirements, and technical deliverables are clearly understood and achieved.
• Ensure Power Networks projects conform to the client’s approved Basis of Design, applicable utility standards, regulatory requirements, industry codes, and Worley quality expectations.

Responsibilities

HSE Management

• Maintain HSE focus within the project team and ensure safety, constructability, environmental, and operational requirements are incorporated into design, procurement, construction support, testing, and commissioning activities.

Client Relationships

• Establish, maintain, and strengthen client and utility relationships through proactive communication and reliable delivery.
• Proactively resolve technical, scope, schedule, constructability, and performance issues with the client and internal project teams as they arise.
• Identify, document, communicate, and meet client requirements, including technical specifications, design criteria, permitting considerations, outage constraints, and project deliverables.

Commercial Management

• Effectively manage assigned budgets within Worley’s scope, including engineering hours, design deliverables, procurement support, construction support, and change impacts.

Scope Management

• Ensure compliance with Worley project management processes, the Project Execution Plan, and Power Networks delivery requirements.
• Ensure compliance with contract requirements, client standards, applicable codes, project specifications, and technical scope commitments.
• Apply effective change control processes, including identification, documentation, communication, and resolution of scope changes and technical deviations.

Time Management

• Contribute to the development, maintenance, and progress reporting of project schedules, including engineering deliverables, procurement support, utility coordination, outage planning, and construction milestones.
• Supervise and coordinate engineering work in accordance with the approved schedule, addressing risks and constraints before they impact delivery.

Cost Control

• Monitor cost aspects of assigned Power Networks scope, forecast final costs, identify trends, and take action to avoid cost overruns or schedule-driven cost impacts.

Quality Management

• Contribute to compliance with Worley policies, procedures, quality systems, client standards, and applicable Power Networks technical requirements.
• Utilize, as appropriate, strong working knowledge of engineering, procurement, project controls, and document management systems and procedures.

Team Management

• Focus the project team on achieving key milestones, technical deliverables, quality expectations, and project objectives.
• Listen to the team, discuss issues, resolve problems, and direct activities to remove roadblocks and achieve project objectives.

Communications Management

• Regularly provide clear project reports, status updates, technical updates, and risk summaries to project management and client stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with design teams, utilities, contractors, vendors, construction teams, and third-party stakeholders.
• Provide accurate, timely, and effective reporting to the Project Manager regarding scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and deliverable status.

Risk Management

• Monitor, communicate, and support closure of identified project risks and opportunities, including technical, safety, constructability, outage, permitting, procurement, and schedule risks.

Design Management

• Set clear objectives for the design team, including productivity, quality, budget, schedule, safety, constructability, and client deliverable expectations.
• Ensure the design team is aware of and complies with the client’s Basis of Design, utility standards, applicable regulations, codes, specifications, and project execution requirements.
• Manage inter-discipline interfaces effectively, including electrical, civil/structural, protection and controls, SCADA/telecom, environmental, procurement, and construction support.

Procurement/Subcontracts Management

• Support procurement and subcontract activities by reviewing technical specifications, vendor submittals, material requirements, equipment lead times, bid evaluations, and construction package needs to ensure goods and services meet project requirements, schedule, and budget.

What You Will Bring

Technical/Industry Experience and Qualifications Requirements:

• Substantial technical, practical, and leadership experience in Power Networks project engineering, including transmission, distribution, substations, grid infrastructure, utility coordination, engineering deliverables, commercial awareness, and contractual requirements.
• Experience with transmission line, distribution, substation, protection and controls, SCADA/telecom, or grid modernization projects

Required

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training:

• A recognized engineering degree in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent Power Networks project experience.

Preferred

• Professional Engineer (PE) status or ability to obtain licensure

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