Job ID: 12122
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 07/01/2026
Job Description
Location: Reading, PA
Description:
You will provide transmission line design services to the organization and its Customers as an integral part of the Power Networks team.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare scaled physical drawings for transmission line projects with minimal amount of supervision and engineering input.
- Develop a complete design drawing package for checking or check the design drawing packages prepared by others.
- Design transmission lines from 34.5kV to 230kV range.
- Design and perform structural analysis and design of pole, lattice, framed, and guyed structures.
- Lead project assignments and guide other design staff in preparing design drawing packages.
- Interface with other disciplines in the development of the drawing package.
- Create and/or review bills of material, conduit, and cable schedules for transmission line projects.
- Work closely with engineers and other disciplines to ensure coordinated design systems.
- Works in a team environment, takes direction from the lead engineer and creates project drawings.
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Work at times with limited direction and have the ability to assist with conceptualizing layouts using go-by information.
- Effective technical and practical electrical design and drafting skills ability to consistently deliver quality, accurate and timely work to the company and its clients.
- Ability to travel to job sites to perform site walkdown.
- Responsible for the quality assurance of the documents to the applicable drawing standards and responsible for the proper document management procedures are followed.
- Ability to complete tasks in accordance with project procedures, applicable codes and/or standards, on schedule and within budget.
- Extensive relevant design experience.
- +5 year of experience.
- Has a competent understanding of regulations, electrical codes, manufacturing standards and industry standard practices.
- Proficient in AutoCAD and MicroStation.
- Proficiency with the manipulation of scaled vector and raster drawing files in AutoCAD and/or MicroStation.
- Proficiency with PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE.
- Ability to understand and implement a wide range of client CAD standards.
- Knowledge with design codes and standards such as NESC, IEC, CSA, IEEE, ANSI, IBC, ASCE-7, AISC, and ACI 318.
- Familiarity with MS Office (Word, Excel and Access).
- Candidate must be self-motivated, organized, and be able to work independently.
- Ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and written communication skills that permit working efficiently alongside senior substation engineers and designers in a team setting.
Required:
- Associate Degree or Diploma in Electrical Design / Drafting with discipline specific training or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in electrical design and drafting.
- Transmission Line design and familiarity is required.
