Power Engineering Primary Lead Eng
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Arcadis is seeking a highly motivated Lead Physical Design Engineer to join our growing Power Delivery team. This individual will provide technical leadership for the planning design and execution of medium- and high-voltage substation projects ranging from 12 kV through 765kV. The successful candidate will serve as the primary design lead overseeing multidisciplinary design teams interfacing directly with clients and ensuring the successful delivery of substation engineering projects from conceptual design through construction support.
In this role you will be responsible for leading physical design activities including substation layouts equipment arrangements grounding raceways foundations control houses and associated civil and structural interfaces for Flexible AC Systems AIS and GIS substations and transmission and distribution. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients provide technical guidance to project teams and drive quality schedule and budget performance throughout project execution.
Role accountabilities:
Project Leadership & Client Management
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for utility renewable energy industrial transportation and data center clients
Engage in client meetings design review sessions and technical workshops
Respond to client questions and technical inquiries throughout all phases of project execution
Develop and maintain strong client relationships while identifying opportunities for additional services
Support proposal development scope definition resource planning and project execution strategies
Provide technical oversight to ensure project commitments related to scope schedule budget and quality are achieved
Physical Substation Design Leadership
Lead the development of physical designs for new and existing substations ranging from medium voltage through EHV projects
Direct preparation of substation layouts equipment plans elevations sections grounding plans conduit and cable routing plans control house layouts and construction packages
Coordinate with protection and controls civil structural geotechnical transmission and telecommunications disciplines
Provide technical direction and quality reviews for engineering deliverables and ensure compliance
Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from an accredited institution
Professional Engineer (PE) license required
12 years of experience in power delivery engineering with substantial substation physical design experience
Proven experience leading medium- and high-voltage substation projects strong knowledge of utility and industrial substation design practices
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams
Demonstrated ability to interact directly with clients and lead technical discussions
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.
Together we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality Diversity Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per salary range for this position is $136400 - $204600.
Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.
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Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more