What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transmission Line Engineer position at Halff?
Transmission Line Engineer
At Halff, we have a shared vision and purpose upon which our company was founded: We improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality. We improve the lives of our own people by providing challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
We’ve built one of the nation’s largest infrastructure consulting firms on a core tenet: focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. So, we hire the industry’s most talented professionals, make them owners and continually develop and reward them.
As we grow our electric power delivery practice, Halff is seeking an experienced transmission line engineer to join us on our journey, based in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth, or Houston. This is an excellent opportunity to progress your career by applying your knowledge and expertise as we build our transmission line team. You’ll likely have prior experience designing new lines, overhauls of existing lines, and substation cut-ins for co-ops, municipalities, or investor-owned utilities. You’re now ready to take-on a broader role including expanding your technical capabilities, mentoring less experienced engineers, developing standards, and seeking continuous improvements to our project execution process.
As a Transmission Line Engineer your role will encompass and provide exposure to the following:
- Preparing designs, construction packages, and bills of material for progressively complex transmission line projects and providing engineering support to the full project life cycle from concept through construction to as-builts.
- Driving and supporting the county, state, and Federal permitting processes for transmission projects (e.g., roads, railroads, floodplains, river crossings, Federal land and water crossings).
- Interpreting geotechnical reports/boring logs and designing a variety of foundation types (e.g., direct-embed, pier, spread, pile) using one or more of CAISSON, LPILE, or MFAD.
- Providing technical guidance and experiential input to all aspects of greenfield and brownfield transmission line projects, such as, routing, structure spotting, right-of-way requirements, conductor/shield wire/structure selection, and constructability/maintainability.
- Performing QA/QC of transmission line designs and construction packages prepared by other engineers or technicians.
- Directing, mentoring, and/or training one or more Project Engineers, EITs, Designers, CADD Technicians and administrative staff.
- Assisting in the development of transmission line engineering design philosophies, standards, details, and specifications.
- Continuously seeking improvements to our project execution processes, including safety by design, quality, and consistency.
- Developing technical specifications and bid documents and assisting clients with the bid and evaluation process.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Civil, Structural, or Architectural preferred).
- 5 years transmission line engineering experience up to 345kV with a consulting firm or electric utility.
- Proficient with MS Office suite.
- Experience in PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, PLS-LITE, and AutoCAD.
- Foundations design experience using one or more of CAISSON, LPILE, or MFAD.
- Experience applying industry codes and standards, including NESC, ASCE, NEC, and ACI 318.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Confident interacting closely with clients, management, and design teams.
- Embrace being an active participant of our employee-owned firm.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to acquire Texas PE within 6 months.
- Experience with PLS-Tower, SAG10, ArcGIS, and distribution line design.
- Transmission line design experience with 500kV and/or 765kV line enhancements or new builds.
- Prior experience developing design standards and/or QA/QC processes and procedures.
- Experience working with renewables developers and/or the interconnection of renewables.
Company Overview:
Halff is a mid-sized, employee-owned, diverse and full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.
Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.
Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways. Our services include: broadband, construction services, energy, environmental, geographic information systems, grant funding resources, intelligent infrastructure, intelligent transportation systems, land development, planning and landscape architecture, MEP engineering, public works, resilience, right of way, structural engineering, subsurface utility engineering/utility coordination, surveying, transportation, water resources and water/wastewater.
Halff has offices in the following locations:
- Arkansas: Bentonville, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, North Little Rock and Little Rock
- Florida: Chipley, Crestview, Jacksonville, Orlando, Panama City Beach, Tallahassee, Tampa, Tavares, Temple Terrace and Windermere
- Louisiana: Baton Rouge and Shreveport
- Oklahoma: Norman and Oklahoma City
- Texas: Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Flower Mound, Fort Worth, Frisco, Houston, Lubbock, McAllen, Midland, Richardson, San Antonio, The Woodlands and Tyler
We offer excellent benefits including medical, dental, prescription and life insurance; long-term and short-term disability insurance; paid time off; holiday pay; traditional and Roth 401(k) plans; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Health Savings Account; 529 College Savings Plan; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Plan; and more.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Halff is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Halff is a drug-free workplace. This offer of employment is contingent upon the receipt of a clear drug screen and background check prior to your first day of employment. This position may be subject to random drug testing pursuant to federal regulations.
