Substation Engineering Manager

Come join our innovative team at Beta Engineering! We understand that finding the right place to work isn't easy. At Beta, we believe in cultivating a team that wins together and takes on the most challenging projects in the high-voltage industry. 
We provide power delivery solutions for a variety of customers, including those in the utility, industrial and renewable markets. We design and build high voltage projects to our customers' specifications. Our work includes substations, transmission lines and more. We help our customers achieve their goals of creating a reliable, sustainable power grid by reducing risks and identifying innovative solutions for their problems.
Our Purpose: We pursue that which challenges us, growing our community to provide critical, creative solutions that achieve extraordinary results.
Substation Engineering Managers (SEMs) are supervisors of multiple Substation Engineer Team Leaders (SETL), Substation Engineers (EE) and Substation Engineering Technicians (SET) overseeing the design, interpretation, application and documentation of drawings, calculations and designs.  The SEM is tasked with ensuring that the Substation Engineering Department’s designs, and applications, are completed to code and standards set forth by the appropriate authoritative bodies.  In addition, SEMs are responsible for the training, recruiting, hiring, scheduling, assigning and discipline of SETLs, SEs and SETs under their supervision.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:• Responsible for all substation engineering design and activities• Delegates engineering responsibilities and activities within the SE department• Manages the design and checking processes of multiple teams•Ensures training and development of SETLs, SEs and SETs• Maintains design standards and training guidelines• Resolves issues between design teams and departments• Ensures technical questions posed by construction managers, field staff, project managers, customers and their representatives are addressed• Recognizes and recommends methods to improve every customer’s experience • Travels periodically to customer offices for project meetings, to job sites for construction visits and as necessary to perform managerial responsibilities with remote employees• Performs bi-yearly evaluations on all employees reporting to them
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:• The Substation Engineering Manager will have multiple employees reporting to this position.• Coordinates the scheduling of employee PTO• Recruits, hires and trains new engineers• Provides input on organizational structure, employee performance, continuing education, employee development and disciplinary actions• Enforces discipline policies within department• Assures department and themselves adhere to and practice the Beta core competencies and Beta principle
ADDITIONAL DUTIES: • As assigned by the Vice President of Engineering 
EXPECTATIONS:• Performs quality work within deadlines without direct supervision.  • Interacts professionally with other employees and customers.• Works effectively as a leader in the department.• Demonstrates integrity and ethics in all client relationships and communications.• Communicates regularly with supervisor and teams regarding designs, concerns, studies or tests• Desires to participate in continued education and training• Overnight travel to active job sites• Must have clean driving record as use of company vehicles is a requirement of position
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:• Bachelor degree (or higher) in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil or Industrial Engineering is required• PE is preferred• Previous design experience in substation design, equipment specification, conduit design, grounding design, lighting design, underground cable ampacity design, for high voltage substations is required• Previous supervisory experience is required• Strong background in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required; strong verbal and written communication skills are required• Knowledge of all or some of the following applications are preferred:  AutoCAD, Microstation, CDEGS grounding software, CYMCAP, LitePro, ETAP
WORKING CONDITIONS: • Will work in an office environment with minimal exposure to dust, noise, and other environmental hazards• Overnight travel is required to an active construction site for a period of one or two weeks at a time.  Ability to perform duties safely and to adhere to each job site’s safety requirements; while working on an active job site, outdoors, is a requirement
Referral Level: ProfessionalNot eligible for Enhanced ReferralNot eligible for External ReferralMore information regarding The Crest Industries Family of Companies’ Internal and External Referral Programs can be found here: https://www.crestoperations.com/recruit-new
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