Power Transmission & Distribution Engineer/Project Manager to join our growing consulting team at any of the locations listed below. You will be responsible for leading power industry projects from concept through completion, with a focus on electric transmission and distribution design. This role requires strong client-facing skills, project financial ownership, and the ability to manage interdisciplinary engineering and construction activities to design, analyze and modernize power infrastructure.
Posting Locations: Belleville, Lisle, or Chicago, IL; or St. Louis, MO
What You'll Do: - Build, maintain, and grow client relationships, support business development and proposal development
- Serve as the primary client contact, ensuring communication, alignment, and high-quality delivery
- Lead and manage transmission, distribution and substation projects from planning through closeout, including route selection, siting, surveying, permitting, engineering, estimating, and construction coordination
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coordination across multi-disciplinary teams (electrical, civil, survey, environmental, structural)
- Prepare and/or oversee project schedules, budgets, forecasting, scope, risk management, change management, and staffing
- Develop engineering drawings, specifications, and cost estimates and implement project execution plans, project controls, and QA/QC processes
- Perform transmission and distribution system design (overhead & underground) including distribution equipment, feeder replacement, cable replacement, and new feeder installation
- Prepare substation design packages including siting, physical equipment arrangements, and equipment designs such as buswork, transformers, breakers, isolators, protective relaying systems, and grounding systems
- Conduct line routing, load flow, short circuit, and coordination studies as well as voltage drop, sag-tension, wire selection, and pole loading calculations
- Provide technical input during client meetings and presentations as well as internal design team meetings
What You'll Need: - Bachelor's degree in engineering from an ABET accredited institution, or
- Bachelor's degree in engineering technology or construction management from an ABET accredited institution
- 7+ years of T&D experience in consulting or utility environments
- 3+ years managing power industry projects
- Working knowledge of industry design standards, including NESC, IEEE, NERC and relevant utility standards
- Proficiency in tools such as ETAP, SKM, CYME, PLS-CADD, or similar
- Design experience and working knowledge of 69kV to 500kV systems preferred
- Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and ability to present complex information to internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to manage project financials, forecasting, scope, schedules, contracts, and risk
- Proven success developing client relationships and leading multi-disciplinary teams.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license and/or PMP Certification preferred
Featured benefits and perks include: - 401(k) with 100% Company Match up to 5%
- Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance Plans
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Short & Long-Term Disability
- Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Professional Development and Training
- Mentoring Program
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness/Fitness Reimbursements
- Pet Insurance Plan
- Hybrid Work Program
Farnsworth Group appreciates that flexibility and work-life balance are important aspects of the careers and lives of our employees. Our Hybrid Work Program offers employees a flexible work arrangement while contributing to the Company's culture and success.
Statement on Diversity and InclusionFarnsworth Group is a collection of employees with unique backgrounds and perspectives that all come together to make us a better Company. It is our goal to recruit, hire, develop, retain, and promote a diverse group of people. Join us...and let's make a difference, together.
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