Project Engineer 3 - Substation Electrical
Pomona, CA
Utilities – Utilities West /
full-time /
Hybrid
At Anser Advisory, part of Accenture, we strive and succeed by creating smart, dynamic, and professionally skilled teams to deliver extraordinary projects for our clients. You will work on interesting projects that will expand your expertise and hone your technical skills through the ability to access the most advanced technology on the market. Your successful impact will help us obtain our goal of being the nationwide go-to professional services provider. Anser provides our clients with advisory, compliance, program, and project construction management services at the highest level of dedication.
Our relationships are based on our credibility to deliver on our commitments, with unbeatable service levels to our clients which has resulted in our rapid growth, nationwide.
We are seeking Project Engineer 3 to join our Utility Services division in support of a large electric utility substation project. In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating with the client, design and engineering firm, and other stakeholders to review the scope of work, and design submittals, and facilitate the design process from inception to close out.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in sponsor kickoff meetings to assist in determining the scope of work
- Perform desktop analysis and develop a preliminary detailed scope of work
- Request proposals from design engineering contractors
- Review proposed engineering project scope and schedule estimates; validate, and make recommendations to discipline manager/leader
- Review requested resource estimates and make recommendations to discipline leader
- Review/Recommend and process the project design specification through DocuSign
- Review purchase order and change order requests in Ariba
- Oversee design engineering work including: confirm the design is within the scope and proceeding according to schedule, establishing progress at milestones such as 30%, 60%, 90%
- Provide bi-weekly project status updates through the Smart Turnaround Tool (STT) or other methods, if required by the client group manager/leader. The Smart Turnaround Tool is a scheduling tool that will be used to measure progress.
- Provide oversight of quality assurance approach related to the work products to ensure that design packages are accurate and error-free.
- Provide cursory reviews (spot check) on final design packages and issue packages to Corporate Drawing Management (CDM)
- Coordinate with other engineering disciplines and field organizations.
- Participate in project status/coordination meetings. Lead project status/coordination meetings when necessary.
- Review invoices submitted. Thoroughly check invoices for accuracy. Communicate any inconsistencies, errors, and concerns of invoices to the Client discipline manager/leader before providing approvals.
- Provide construction support by interfacing with internal Client employees and contracted construction site representatives.
- For any inconsistencies, concerns, and/or clarifications required regarding any of the functions specified in this document, consult with the Client discipline manager/lead for direction.
- Schedule and lead pre-engineering job walks (field visits) with various project stakeholders to review the preliminary scope of work and finalize.
- Prepare agenda and exhibits to discuss at pre-engineering job walks (field visits)
- Prepare pre-engineering job walk meeting minutes and send out for review/comments, if required. Any additional scope of work requested by field personnel during the job walk, requires consultation with the client discipline manager/lead before finalizing pre-engineering job walk meeting minutes and obtaining approval from the Project Manager and Project Sponsor.
- Finalize pre-engineering job walk meeting minutes and distribute to all project stakeholders, if required
- Review/Recommend and process the project design specification through DocuSign
- Manage agreed-upon project schedule including the execution of the various deliverables such as Major Electrical Equipment Orders (pdf eMEL order forms); order requests for long lead items; submitting various design packages to different engineering discipline groups (e.g. One Line/Elementary Diagrams/Logic Diagrams to Protection Engineering and Automation Engineering Group; HMI/ePAC or RTU/ePAC and Relay Rack Elevation, Wiring Diagrams, HMI Point List, LAN to Automation Engineering group; Plot Plan and physical drawings to Structural/Civil Engineering group, etc.); Relay Rack orders requests; Mechanical Equipment Electrical Room (MEER) Order requests; and others as needed.
- Actively coordinate with various departments in obtaining final approved electrical equipment vendor drawings and submit as part of the design
- Manage development and completion of projects Bill of Materials (B/M) and Cable Schedules (C/S)
Qualifications / Experience:
- 5-10 years of design or design management experience in electric substations
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
- Professional Engineer (PE) license in CA highly desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a high level of proficiency in MS Office Word, Excel, Outlook and Project
- Ability to manage the design process with multiple stakeholders
- Knowledge of electrical substation design
In Addition:
- This position will require the candidate to be in the office every Tuesday and one other day in the field as necessary to support assigned projects
- Miles reimbursed for commute in excess of 100 miles round trip
- Periodic travel required as dictated by project
$110,000 - $160,000 a year
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Anser Advisory is a drug free workplace.
