Senior Project Engineer – Overhead Transmission
Location: Akron, Ohio
Country: United States
Category: Engineering
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Direct Hire/Perm
Posted Date: July 10, 2026
Job ID: 649555
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Project Engineer - Overhead Transmission
Location(s): St. Louis (MO), Columbus and Akron (OH)
Contract length: Direct Hire
Pay: Compensation discussions are handled directly with qualified candidates during the interview process. You can assume market pay for these roles and our base and bonus compensation package will meet the requirements.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited university and 7 years of direct project engineering experience managing design efforts for Design-only and EPC projects required.
- Professional engineering license (PE).
- Ability to effectively lead project teams. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in scheduling and budgeting.
- Proficiency with PLS-CADD and PLS-POLE.
- Consulting or utility experience preferred.
- Providing technical leadership, direction, and support for an overhead transmission design team on projects ranging from 69kV to 500kV.
- 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 and 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 the team and department.
- Creating, improving, facilitating and teaching training courses to the project team and department.
- Other duties as assigned.
- 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.
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