Project Engineer - Distribution (San Juan, PR) Job at Burns & McDonnell in San J

**Description** Wishing you could have an ownership stake in the company you are working for? Founded in 1898, Burns & McDonnell is an award-winning engineering, architectural, construction environmental and consulting services firm. We are a 100% employee-owned company, with regional and project offices nationwide. Burns & McDonnell plans, designs, constructs and manages projects all over the world with one mission in mind -- to make our clients successful. Burns & McDonnell has an exciting opportunity in our Transmission and Distribution Group for an Overhead Transmission Project Engineer. At Burns & McDonnell, you're in control of your career potential. And with more than 350 service specialties, you can grow within the company. Our formula is simple: hire the best people, find out what they enjoy and are great at, and help them succeed. You'll lead or support important projects for interesting clients and reap the rewards of employee-ownership a difference maker with tangible and intangible benefits. You'll serve clients and will have the potential for collaboration with multiple Burns & McDonnell offices. If you are passionate about the work you do, and want to keep growing in your career, we want to talk to you! The position will be in the San Juan, Puerto Rico office. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

+ Providing technical leadership, direction, and support for the overhead distribution design team on projects ranging from 2.4kV to 34.5kV overhead and underground utility distribution projects.

+ Mentoring, coaching, and developing team members

+ Serving as the primary technical point of contact for the client

+ Implementation of quality control processes

+ Supporting proposal development

+ Leading coordination and communication of project requirements & schedule needs across disciplines

+ Identification and communication of technical risks associated with projects

+ Oversight of production work required to meet deliverable milestones

+ Identifying, developing, and communicating processes and tools to increase efficiency across team and department

+ Creating, improving, facilitating and teaching training courses to the project team and department

+ Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications** The ideal candidate will be able to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external clients as well as provide technical leadership, guidance and instruction to project teams.

+ Bachelor's degree in engineering from accredited program.

+ 3 years related distribution line design experience (completion of master's degree in a related field may be substituted for one year of experience).

+ Successful completion (i.e. passing) FE or EIT highly preferred

+ Professional engineering license (PE) highly Preferred

+ Knowledge of overhead and underground construction methods and distribution system equipment.

+ Experience conducting distribution field inspections.

+ Understanding of distribution power flow.

+ Experience with various distribution design tools, as well as CADD and GIS to aid in design.

+ Familiarity with topographic mapping & surveying, and subsurface utility engineering/utility locating procedures and practices.

+ Knowledge regarding easements, right-of-way, and permitting.

+ Ability to effectively lead project teams.

+ Excellent written & verbal communication skills.

+ Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

+ Experience in scheduling and budgeting.

+ This position requires an experienced and competent individual capable of successfully solving difficult problems that require adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria.

+ Proficiency with PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE a plus.

+ Consulting or utility experience preferred.

+ This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filledEEO/Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans

**Job** Engineering

**Primary Location** US-PR-San Juan

**Other Locations** United States

**Schedule:** Full-time

**Travel:** Yes, 15 % of the Time

**Req ID:** 243352

**Job Hire Type** Experienced #LI-JH #T&D