Senior Distribution Engineer – Electric Utilities

This is a remote position.

Summary

Capital Project Intelligence (CPI for short) is a full-service consultancy and project services firm serving North-American clients in the infrastructure, utility, and construction industries. We are seeking a Senior Distribution Engineer to support a California utility client. The role is fully remote, but clients based in Southern California are preferred. The Senior Distribution Engineer serves as the utility’s designated design reviewer, performing QA/QC on submitted designs and acting as the primary technical liaison between the utility and designers, ensuring that all designs comply with the utility’s standards, policies, procedures, and applicable tariff requirements. The ideal candidate will have 6+ years of design experience, including underground / overhead design, and preferably prior design review or QA/QC experience.

Our Mission

We are a team committed to making the greatest contribution possible with our time. Our clients are creating the built-world that we will inevitably leave to future generations. It’s our mission to help them build the world better.

Our singular goal is to create a more efficient, more robust, and more sustainable future by leveraging technology. These are important challenges. We are tackling them now and we are tackling them together.

Our Values

These values define us as individuals and as an organization. We set out from day-one to build a company that reflects the beliefs of every person that works for us and with us. Each value was selected because it is absolute. We stand by these values as the guiding framework for every decision, even if that decision costs the company money.

• Sincere Integrity. Choosing to do what is right over what is easy. Always.
  
• Adaptability. Forging success because of disruption, not in spite of it.
  
• Maximum Effort. Our work reflects who we are both as individuals and as an organization.
  
• Absolute Ownership. Taking ownership individually and collectively, in success and in failure.
  

Job Responsibilities

• Review submitted electric and gas designs for compliance with utility standards, design practices, and construction requirements
  
• Provide design review comments, redlines, and written feedback to designers and verify corrective actions have been completed
  
• Approve or reject design submittals based on design quality and adherence to utility requirements
  
• Input provided project materials into internal systems to generate bills of materials.
  
• Coordinate with Planners, Project Managers, Construction, Engineering, Environmental, Permitting, and other stakeholders throughout the design review process
  
• Participate in project submittal and design review meetings with designers and planning personnel
  
• Submit environmental reviews and other approvals required to advance design projects
  
• Review final design packages, verify required deliverables, and prepare projects for supervisor approval
  
• Finalize work orders, perform cost reviews and calculations, and complete job packaging activities
  
• Initiate long-lead material processes and coordinate construction reviews as required
  
• Review and approve field and design change orders, including evaluating cost impacts and construction implications
  
• Ensure projects are processed in accordance with utility standard practices, tariff rules, and all applicable design and construction standards
  
• Performs other duties as necessary
  

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of utility design experience
  
• Distribution design experience - including underground and overhead
  
• Knowledge of industry regulations and standards
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
• Be a strong communicator that is comfortable interacting with varied stakeholders as required
  
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously
  
• Accurate timekeeping
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior design review or QA/QC experience
  
• Knowledge of GO95 & GO128
  
• Professional Engineer (P.E.)
  
• Reconductor, cutover, or System Hardening Design experience
  
• Knowledge of voltage drop, voltage flicker, and voltage rise
  

Benefits

• Salary: depending upon qualifications and experience
  
• Work from home (fully remote)
  
• 2 weeks flexible Paid Time Off
  
• $500 home equipment allowance (monitors, stand-up desk, etc.)
  
• $500 annual education allowance
  
• 401(k) with company matching
  
• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
  
• Strong, supportive, and inclusive values-based culture