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SUBSTATION ENGINEERING MANAGER

Brownsville Public Utilities Board (BPUB)

$141,128 - $172,016
Jul 18, 2025
Brownsville, TX, US
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The company is looking for a Substation Engineering Manager to oversee, develop, and direct daily activities related to multiple substation and transmission engineering projects, ensuring proper design, installation, testing, and commissioning of substation power equipment and protective relay/control systems.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of electric substation, transmission, and power system operations and design.
  • Knowledge of substation equipment and electronic technology, technical terminology used in substation resources and power systems, and statistical analysis.
  • Knowledge of personal computer operation and appropriate software, including word processing, spreadsheet, Microsoft Project, database, auto-cad, statistical, and geographical information systems.
  • Skill in conceptualizing engineering problems and designing effective solutions.
  • Skill in developing safe, effective, efficient, timely, and operable electric systems to provide service.
  • eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in the operations or engineering and planning for the electric utility with emphasis in T&D substations projects and assigned areas of responsibility.
  • A Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Texas.

Responsibilities

  • oversees, develops, and directs the daily activities related to multiple substation and transmission engineering projects
  • ensure substation power equipment and protective relay/control systems are designed, installed, tested, and commissioned properly
  • Manages, coordinates, supervises, and schedules multiple substation capital and maintenance projects, including engineering and construction of Transmission and Distribution (T&D) electric substations, and ensures adherence to all regulatory standards.
  • Plans the installation of substation electrical equipment
  • Manages, plans, estimates, develops budgets, and monitors expenditures of substation projects assigned
  • reviews project schedules and identifies the engineering, design, and resource trades to complete the projects.
  • Oversees the creation and approves detailed electrical system layouts, plans, material lists, and construction arrangement drawings for the safe and efficient build-out of utility T&D substation facilities.

Other

  • Responsible for the full range of supervisory activities, including selection, training, evaluation, counseling, and recommendation for dismissal of all assigned employees.
  • Serves as the project leader and directs and coordinates the work of engineering firms, and contractors, including but not limited to professional engineers and technicians as required.
  • Manages and oversees contracts, purchase requisitions, acquisitions, requests for proposals (RFP), requests for bids (RFB), and requests for qualifications (RFQ)
  • Collaborates internally and externally with stakeholders including BPUB departments, contractors, engineering firms, vendors, and regulatory agencies to execute initiatives, strategies, and directives.
  • Must be a Professional Engineer licensed in the State of Texas.