[Hiring] Manager - Renewable Substations @Atwell, LLC

Role Description

As a Manager in Renewable Substations, you will lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals responsible for electrical engineering scopes supporting renewable substations and related facilities. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload planning, quality accountability, project support, and team development.

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting the assigned specialty.
• Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
• Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
• Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate work assignments, training, and mentoring based on project requirements and employee development needs.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
• Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
• Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
• Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
• Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
• Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
• Support improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
• Oversee substation electrical engineering and design, including one-line and three-line diagrams, control and relaying schematics, wiring, SCADA and communications, conduit and cable systems, grounding, equipment selection, specifications, general arrangements, estimates, and schedules.
• Oversee power-system studies, protective relay settings, relaying and control-system activities, equipment review, submittals, and related technical documentation.
• Provide or coordinate QA/QC reviews of engineering and design deliverables and reinforce applicable codes, standards, client requirements, and construction practices.
• Support field assistance, testing, troubleshooting, observation reporting, start-up, commissioning, and value-engineering activities.
• Coordinate project work with design, studies, physical engineering, SCADA, civil, structural, and project-management teams.
• Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
• Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and documentation for new work and project changes in coordination with Project Managers.
• Partner with Project Managers and technical leaders to coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes.
• Support proposal development, marketing activities, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
• Support client relationships by helping resolve technical and delivery concerns and promoting consistent, responsive service.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Ability to maintain accountability for team deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
• Strong workload-planning and resource-forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate-to-complete information.
• Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
• Strong technical-review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
• Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project-delivery concerns and escalate issues appropriately.
• Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project-change documentation.
• Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong working knowledge of renewable-substation electrical engineering, including medium- and low-voltage distribution, switchgear, motor control, instrumentation and controls, Protection and Control, SCADA, grounding, and power-system studies.
• Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned specialty.
• Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 6-10 years of experience in renewable-substation, utility-substation, electrical-power, engineering, field, or related technical field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
• Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
• Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible work schedules are available for some positions
• Tenure Awards — Travel Vouchers to see the world based on your travel preferences
• Competitive Compensation packages
• Annual bonuses, spot bonuses and peer recognition awards
• 401K match - 1:1 up to 4% of compensation
• Tuition Assistance
• Student Loan Repayment
• Paid Licensing / Certification Fees and Renewals
• Financial Rewards for Obtaining Licensure
• Employee Referrals
• Annual Wellness Reimbursement for anything wellness related (Gym memberships, fitness tracker, home gym equipment, etc.)
• Dependent Care Match
• Medical (BC/BS), Dental (Delta), and Vision (VSP)
• Family Planning & IVF Benefits
• Pet Insurance
• Health Savings Account & Flex Spending Account options
• Employer paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
• Metlife Supplemental Benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
• Member Assistance Program (MAP) with complimentary counseling sessions, legal benefits, financial consultations, and work/life referral services