Substation Structural Designer
Job Summary
The Substation Structural Designer will lead and guide a team in creating structural designs, calculations, and technical drawings for substation projects. This role ensures compliance with industry standards and safety regulations while collaborating across disciplines to ensure successful project delivery. You will also be responsible for mentoring junior staff and managing design reviews for high-quality technical outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate technical structural designs
- Perform QA/QC on steel and foundation plans
- Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Identify and resolve structural design interferences
- Mentoring junior designers and drafters
Required Skills
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Bentley MicroStation
- High Voltage Substation Design
- Steel and Foundation Drafting
- Technical project coordination
Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Resource allocation for direct reports and coordination with engineering manager.
- Identify and resolve project issues by keeping an open line of communication between the internal project team and the client.
- Interact directly with clients to review and resolve technical project related issues without supervision.
- Collaborate with engineers/designers across disciplines and identify/resolve potential design issues to assure a complete, high-quality product.
- Ensures project deliverables for technical quality, accuracy and compliance with Company and Client standards.
- QA/QC site steel plans, sections, details along with corresponding BOMs prepared by direct reports.
- QA/QC foundation plans, sections, details along with corresponding BOMs.
- Identifies and resolves design interferences.
- Ensure electrical assets can mount easily, coordinating vendor equipment mounting templates with Leidos' steel design.
- Ensure engineering design details are properly represented for the development of "greenfield" (new) substations.
- Perform design due diligence as it relates to site expansion projects or brownfield work for within existing substations.
- May provide additional support to our site-civil and physical design groups in laying out plans, sections, and details for substation projects.
Qualifications:
- AA/2-year degree in Engineering Technology - CAD or related scientific/technical discipline (Experience may be considered in lieu of degree).
- 0 - 4 years of relevant experience in steel design.
- Demonstrated understanding of design concepts associated with high voltage electrical substations.
- Proficient in Substation Power Delivery Software: Autodesk AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation.
- 3D Modeling Using Autodesk Inventor (Preferred).
- Candidates must be located in the United States.