Zone PM/ Designer

Description:

We are in search of a well qualified power Distribution with PM Experience to join Duke Zone teams with Residential & Commercial development projects. As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in performing field inspections, engineering design work and calculations, and project management functions within Residential Development projects. As a part of this work, you’ll be coordinating directly with Customers, Duke construction permitting agencies, right-of-way specialists, system owners, field leaders, forestry leaders, and 3rd party owners for joint-owned poles.

Additionally, you will provide engineering support during construction, including post-construction reviews to ensure all applicable engineering and construction standards have been met, as well as conducting root cause analysis of outages and mitigation using engineering principles and design. You’ll engage with technical design and Client standards, ensuring quality and timeliness of design deliverables to QAQC.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to ....

• Meeting with Customers (residential & commercial) to usderstand requests and intake the scope.

• Review work provided by Client and assess requirements of scopes.

• Provide engineering support during construction, including post-construction reviews to ensure all applicable engineering and construction standards have been met.

• Conduct root cause analysis of outages and mitigation using engineering principles and design.

• Travel to sites as needed, perform inspections and return to the office to perform engineering design work.

As a core team member, you will be interacting with other electric utility disciplines, playing a valuable part in performing field inspections, engineering design work and calculations

• As a part of this work, you’ll be coordinating with permit agencies, right-of-way specialists, system owners, field leaders, forestry leaders, and 3rd party owners for joint-owned poles

• Additionally, you will provide engineering support during construction, including post-construction reviews to ensure all applicable engineering and construction standards have been met, as well as conducting root cause analysis of outages and mitigation using engineering principles and design

• You’ll engage with technical design and Client standards, ensuring quality and timeliness of design deliverables to QAQC

• Review work provided by Client and assess requirements of scopes

• Travel to sites as needed, perform inspections and return to the office to perform engineering design work

Skills:

Drafting, Designing, Design, Project management, Distribution design, Autocad, Engineering, Power distribution, power & utilities

Top Skills Details:

Drafting,Designing,Design,Project management,Distribution design

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation from a two year or four-year college or university with a B.S.

• Experience or basic knowledge in the concepts in the electric utility industry, including primary and secondary distribution systems, utility standards, ability to use design software packages, and general construction knowledge and aptitude.

• Understanding of basic engineering theories and principles.

• Understanding of basic practices of researching engineering and design issues, evaluating alternatives, making sound recommendations, and preparing/presenting recommendations.

• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.

• Good written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate frequently with customers.

• MUST have strong interpersonal skills, self-motivation/initiative, and the desire to learn.

Desired Qualifications:

• Leadership and/or customer interaction experience in a different industry (retail, restaurant, etc.)

• Experience on the Duke system, performing distribution design.

• Experience interacting with customers and developers for distribution projects.

• Current knowledge of BOUD/Maximo, Smallworld, Bentley Open Utility Designer and Microstation.

• EIT/ Passed Engineering Fundamentals Exam.

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