Sr. Engineer*

Santee Cooper

United States, South Carolina, Moncks Corner

Feb 12, 2025

Position Description

Responsible for providing technical engineering & project management support to enhance maintenance, inspection, operation, performance and reliability of the Santee Cooper high voltage transmission system. Responsible for the design, budgeting and project management of short tap lines, line relocations, switch installations, and various other transmission line projects. Responsible for establishing and maintaining a positive customer service relationship with our external Cooperative and Industrial customers.

Essential Job Tasks:

Engineering Support for line crews (Corrective Maintenance):

With Minimal Oversight provided to employee:
Provide engineering and technical support to the transmission line crews by:
- Analyzing structural components strength.
- Interpreting the National Electric Safety Code (NESC) on clearance and strength issues.
- Analyzing causes of outages, failures or damage to assets and long term trends experienced on the transmission system. Provide solutions to mitigate future failures across the system.
- Updating TOA Outage Database with outage cause information.
- Ordering replacement parts on damaged equipment.
- Effectively Communicate critical issues and recommendations to Unit manager and other team members.

Production Projects:

With Minimal Oversight provided to employee:
- Perform estimates, design functions and manage projects from initiation through completion for various billable, capital, reimbursable and O&M projects including: Targeted Capital Maintenance & Targeted Component Replacement projects, relocations, switch installations and short tap line work.
- Coordinates this work between Santee Cooper Personnel, contractors, developers, vendors, other entities and the customer.
- Responsible for ensuring all as-built drawings are completed and the TEFIS and LIS systems are updated.
- Effectively Communicate Budget Projections, Critical Dates and Project issues, recommendations, Scope and Status to Unit Manager and other team members.

Encroachments:

With Minimal Oversight provided to employee:
Provide engineering review for encroachment department: Review and approve or deny encroachment requests from other utilities, property owners, developers and requests within Santee Cooper.

Effectively Communicate critical information, recommendations and results to Unit Manager and other team members.

Reliability Projects (Preventative Maintenance):
With Minimal Oversight provided to employee:

Targeted Reliability Projects:
- Analyze line criticality, historic operating cost, outages, failures and risk to identify critical poor performing components, line sections or areas of high risk.
- Make recommendations for candidate Targeted Capital Maintenance and Targeted Component Replacement Projects.

Line Rating Reliability Projects:
- Perform Line rating analysis to ensure that field conditions are acceptable for the lines to operate at the appropriate temperature and ampacity indicated by ECC and System Planning's line ratings data base.

Other Reliability Projects:
- Examples of the projects include: economic analyses, corona camera inspection work, infrared inspection work, managing the maintenance and inspection work on the underground transmission lines, verifying lightning operations with the FALLS (Fault Analysis & Lightning Location System) software, performing line section reliability studies, coordinating the installation of motor operators on switches, coordinating the installation of fault indicators and analyzing failed hardware or components.

Continuous Improvement:
With Minimal Oversight provided to employee:

Investigate, research and analyze new materials, equipment and services and, where necessary, work with Transmission Design standards personnel on various items relating to this.
- Effectively Communicate results and recommendations to Unit manager and other team members.
- Effectively Communicate Budget Projections, Critical Dates and Project issues, recommendations, Scope and Status to Unit Manager and other team members.

Interaction with Line Crews:

Report to Area Crew quarters regularly to gain direct hands on experience from field crews, build relationships and observe field conditions. Work with crews to:

- Collectively resolve maintenance issues
- Collaborate, plan and execute maintenance projects
1-3 Days/ Week

Special Physical Requirements:

Must be capable of traversing moderate to potentially extreme Terran on foot, ATV, Boat, Automobile in order to take measurements, analyze project scope of work and design on electrical transmission line right of ways.

Position Requirements

Will consider Sr. Engineer, Engineer III, Engineer II or Engineer I

Sr. Engineer

Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering from an EAC/ABET University or College +8 years of related experience required.

Professional Engineering License required.

Compensation Information:
$102,560 - $128,200 (min - mid)

Engineer III

Bachelor's Degree in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering from an EAC/ABET accredited University or College +5 years of experience.

FE/EIT License required.

Compensation Information:
$91,990 - $114,990 (min - mid)

Engineer II

Bachelor's Degree Civil, Electrical or Mechanical in Engineering from an EAC/ABET accredited University or College +2 years of experience.

FE/EIT License preferred.

Compensation Information:
$82,520 - $103,140 (min - mid)

Engineer I

Bachelor's Degree Civil, Electrical or Mechanical in Engineering from an EAC/ABET accredited University or College.

FE/EIT License preferred.

Compensation Information:
$74,010 - $92,500 (min - mid)

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.