Senior Utility Design Specialist

Lead quality and technical excellence for electric distribution design projects supporting wildfire mitigation, grid resiliency, and major capital programs. Provide design expertise, mentorship, and QA/QC oversight while helping teams solve complex engineering challenges and deliver high-quality utility designs. This role offers a flexible hybrid schedule with 1–2 days in the office and occasional field visits.

What You'll Do:

• Technical QA/QC Leadership: Perform detailed technical reviews of overhead and underground electric distribution designs, ensuring compliance with Xcel Energy construction standards, NESC codes, fire mitigation requirements, and joint-use specifications. 


• Collaborative Mentorship: Serve as a technical resource and coach for the design team by working alongside designers at all experience levels, providing guidance, explaining design decisions, and helping strengthen technical skills.


• Process Alignment & Adaptability: Learn and apply team-specific design workflows, tools, and tracking systems while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives and enhancing QA/QC processes.


• Constructive Design Reviews: Lead design review meetings and feedback discussions focused on problem-solving, knowledge sharing, and supporting continuous learning across the team.


• Complex Problem Solving: Support designers in resolving complex design challenges, including pole-loading calculations, underground utility coordination, and fire mitigation designs within wildland-urban interface areas.


• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Project Managers, Schedulers, and Client Leads to ensure design quality aligns with project timelines, customer expectations, and construction readiness.

Required Qualifications: 

•  5+ years of hands-on experience in electric distribution design (overhead and underground). 


• Strong, direct familiarity with Xcel Energy design manuals, GIS platforms (such as GE Smallworld), and construction standards is highly preferred. 


• Confident in utility engineering math, including pole loading (e.g., O-Calc), transformer sizing, and voltage drop calculations. 

What We Offer:

• A supportive and inclusive work environment that values diversity and encourages innovation.


• Opportunities for professional growth and career development.


• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including generous paid time off, retirement program with a company match, tuition reimbursement, and flexible work schedules.


• This position pays between $75,000 and $85,000annually and is a non-exempt position. The specific amount within this range will be influenced by the work location and various factors, such as internal equity, professional skills, work experience, and pertinent education or training. Benefits offered include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and retirement program with company match. Also offered are tuition reimbursement, voluntary life, disability, critical illness, accident and hospitalization plans. HSA or FSA medical accounts and FSA dependent care and transportation/parking accounts are also available. These benefits are subject to employee contribution amounts generally set annually. Full-time employees are eligible to earn PTO hours. May be eligible for discretionary bonus as determined by the company.

Why Join Us?

At ENTRUST Solutions Group, a Leidos company, we are driven by a commitment to innovation, technical excellence, and delivering the critical infrastructure that powers and connects communities. Together with Leidos, we are building a scaled, end-to-end energy and infrastructure organization focused on modernizing the grid, improving reliability, and helping utilities and network providers meet rising demand.

As an ENR top ranked firm, our team of more than 5,000 professionals brings deep technical expertise and advanced technology across electric, gas, and telecommunications infrastructure. We solve complex challenges for clients across North America and expanding markets, helping them strengthen reliability, expand capacity, and adapt to evolving infrastructure needs.

We foster a culture where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement are expected, and where people are empowered to challenge convention, think boldly, and make an impact. Whether you are looking to grow your expertise, lead transformative projects, or help shape the future of infrastructure, you will find opportunities to thrive here.

If you are ready to outthink the status quo, tackle meaningful challenges, and build what is next, we would love to hear from you.

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ENTRUST Solutions Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

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