Electric Distribution Design Engineer - North Charleston, SC

ST Pay Rate: up to $87.00 (1.5 for OT)

Hours: Office hours are 7am – 4pm. We have flexibility with hours between 6am and 6pm.

Work Location: Candidate MUST be local or able to drive in candidate as they could be on site at least 3-4 days a week.  Routine visits from office to job sites in the downtown Charleston area are required.

Required Education and Certifications / Licenses:  Engineering or technical design background preferred. Project management from design through construction preferred.

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

Soft skill requirements (team fit and personality requirements):

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written

• Ability to lead, collaborate, or work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams

Nice to Have Skills:

• 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.

Job Summary

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.

Preferred 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

Preferred companies/industries experience:

Candidate must have utilities industry experience