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Lead Engineer, Substation Engineering

Omaha Public Power District

Publicly owned electric utility serving Omaha and eastern Nebraska since 1946.

Lead engineer overseeing substation design, team management, and project execution.

7d ago

$118,061

Intermediate (4-7 years)

Full Time

Omaha, NE

Office Full-Time

Company Size

1,797 Employees

Service Specialisms

Energy Consulting

Project Management

Construction Services

Technical Services

Outage Restoration

Energy Efficiency Services

Billing & Payments

New Construction Connections

Sector Specialisms

Energy

Renewable Energy

Solar

Wind

Hydroelectric

Natural Gas

Coal

Nuclear

Role

What you would be doing

substation design

contract management

risk management

resource allocation

quality audits

stakeholder mgmt

Identify project risk, potential contingencies, and align resources to meet requirements.
Works on programs and initiatives with complex features.
Establishes themselves as a technical expert and resource.
Provide and coordinate engineering efforts.
Maintain effective relationships with corporate personnel, consultants, equipment vendors, and contractors to ensure project integration.
Assist manager with the day-to-day coaching, feedback, reporting, performance evaluation and assignment of work priorities/workloads for team members. (As Assigned By Manager; 40% or less of role)
Encourage design innovation and creativity.
Assist with the resolution of escalated issues, questions and work stoppage situations. (As assigned by or in absence of Manager)
Perform quarterly quality checks on job functions/individual outputs in area. Report findings to management quarterly.
Oversees the resources and financial issues of a work group and associated projects.
Coordinate substation design efforts with collocated neighboring utilities or customer utilities to provide for integrated and reliable substation designs.
Lead, support, prepare and review the writing of material specifications, material contracts, outside service contracts, construction inspection and any related contract management for assigned projects.
Act as a detailed Subject Matter Expert with regard to the work and roles of the team. Assist in the training of new staff and cross training of existing staff. (As Assigned by Manager)
In the absence of management, evaluate workloads and priorities and assign appropriate resources to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of departmental products and services.
Participate with the department's coop program.
Lead, support and provide technical direction and task assignments for the engineering, procurement, contracted construction, contract administration, construction management, and records/drawings management of assigned projects to ensure completion within budget, schedules, and regulatory requirements.
Provide input to the development of performance management documentation.
Represents OPPD as a technical expert for industry groups.
Monitor, coach and recommend additional training solutions for team members to develop the skills, knowledge and experience to be effective in role.
Accountable for design safety, personnel safety, reliability, operability, economy, timely completion, and within budget of District and customer substation assigned projects.
Participate in engineering, planning, estimating, design, drafting, analysis, permitting, specification development, contracts, work orders, and close-out activities.
Provide critical support for generation station transformers and related high voltage equipment.

What you bring

5+ years

b.s. engineering

master's

pe certification