Atwellgroup Manager - Transmission Engineering at Atwellgroup leads teams responsible for overhead transmission engineering scopes. The role includes people leadership, technical oversight, resource planning, and project delivery support.
Responsibilities
Ten consecutive years in a row as a “Best Place to Work” by Zweig Group (#11)
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Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting transmission projects.
Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of transmission 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 training, mentoring, and work assignments.
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.
Qualification
Experience managing team workloadExperience supporting QA/QCIndependent yet CollaborativeDependable
Required
Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
6-10 years of experience in overhead transmission-line, distribution-line, structural, civil, mechanical, engineering, design, field, or related technical field.
Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
Experience producing or reviewing transmission-line design packages, structure-loading or foundation work, engineering calculations, and construction documentation.
Work is performed in a professional work environment, with work location and reporting expectations determined by business needs and position requirements. Some field work may be required.
Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and operate a computer and other office productivity equipment.
Frequently communicates and collaborates with clients, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders.
Must be able to move around project sites and work in indoor or outdoor environments as required.
Travel may be required based on client and project needs.