Technical Advisor - Transmission & Distribution Engineering, Power & Energy

About the Position

As a Technical Advisor in Power, you will serve as a subject matter expert responsible for providing technical leadership, consultation, and quality oversight within an assigned engineering discipline, technical specialty, or market. This role supports Atwell’s most complex, atypical, or high-risk projects by providing advanced technical guidance, performing high-level quality reviews, resolving complex engineering challenges, and supporting consistent project execution. The Technical Advisor works closely with technical leaders, project managers, engineers, designers, clients, and other project stakeholders to strengthen technical quality, improve engineering practices, and develop practical solutions that meet project and client objectives. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in regard to the essential functions of the job below.

Essential Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert within an assigned engineering discipline, technical specialty, or market and provide technical guidance on complex, atypical, or high-risk projects.
• Partner with technical leaders, project managers, and project teams to establish technical approaches, resolve engineering challenges, and support successful project execution.
• Independently complete or direct complex engineering analyses, calculations, studies, models, specifications, designs, reports, and related technical deliverables applicable to the assigned area of expertise.
• Perform high-level technical and quality assurance and quality control reviews to identify critical errors, coordination concerns, constructability issues, compliance risks, and potential project impacts before deliverables are released.
• Provide project teams with clear and actionable technical feedback, coaching, and recommendations to support compliance with Atwell quality expectations, applicable standards, and project requirements.
• Develop creative, constructable, and economically appropriate solutions to complex technical challenges while considering quality, safety, scope, schedule, budget, operational impacts, and client objectives.
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of technical standards, engineering practices, QA/QC procedures, tools, processes, templates, methodologies, and training resources within the assigned department or technical area.
• Identify and implement improvements to technical processes, tools, workflows, and technologies that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, and project performance.
• Coach others on project strategy, technical decision-making, quality, efficiency, schedule, and budget management.
• Mentor Engineers, Designers, and other Senior Technical professionals through coaching, training, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
• Lead or support department-level technical initiatives and build stakeholder alignment for effective implementation.
• Serve as a trusted technical consultant to clients by understanding client needs, evaluating technical alternatives, providing tailored recommendations, and clearly communicating engineering decisions and associated impacts.
• Support proposals, scope development, cost estimates, technical write-ups, interviews, client meetings, and other seller-doer or business development activities.
• Maintain advanced knowledge of applicable engineering principles, codes, standards, regulatory requirements, industry practices, manufacturer offerings, technologies, and client-specific criteria.
• Contribute to technical knowledge sharing and industry involvement through training, presentations, conferences, committees, publications, white papers, or related professional activities.
• Provide field engineering, construction support, troubleshooting, inspection, testing, commissioning, or technical consultation as applicable to the assigned discipline and project requirements.
• Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Must-Have Qualifications

• Recognized expertise in an assigned engineering discipline, technical specialty, or Power & Energy market.
• Ability to independently complete complex or atypical engineering assignments and provide technical direction on large, complex, strategic, or high-risk projects.
• Demonstrates advanced engineering judgment and can defend technical decisions while considering quality, safety, constructability, compliance, schedule, budget, operational impacts, commercial needs, and client objectives.
• Ability to perform high-level reviews of engineering calculations, analyses, studies, models, specifications, drawings, reports, vendor documentation, and other technical deliverables applicable to the assigned specialty.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex technical, constructability, compliance, coordination, quality, and project-execution challenges.
• Advanced knowledge of the applicable codes, standards, regulations, technologies, manufacturer offerings, and client requirements associated with the assigned discipline or technical specialty.
• Ability to establish and continuously improve technical standards, quality practices, methodologies, tools, processes, and workflows within an assigned department or technical area.
• Ability to lead department-level technical initiatives, gain stakeholder support, and implement improvements across project teams.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, designers, Project Phase Managers, and other technical professionals.
• Ability to effectively coach others on technical decision-making, quality expectations, work planning, efficiency, schedule, and budget performance.
• Strong client consultation skills with the ability to understand underlying needs, communicate technical alternatives, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, consulting, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to support technical proposals, scope development, cost estimating, client presentations, and business development activities.
• Proficiency with engineering, analysis, design, modeling, documentation, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned discipline or technical specialty.
• Demonstrates commitment to quality, safety, ethical conduct, continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and professional development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution required.
• Professional Engineer (PE) required.
• EOR or stamping responsibility may apply by discipline and assignment.
• Additional technical certifications, registrations, or licenses may be required based on the assigned discipline, jurisdiction, or project responsibilities.
• 8-14 years of progressively responsible engineering, technical consulting, design, analysis, field, or related experience within the assigned discipline, specialty, or market.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical resource on complex or atypical projects.
• Experience performing high-level technical and QA/QC reviews and resolving complex engineering or project-execution challenges.
• Experience developing, improving, or implementing engineering standards, methods, tools, processes, or quality practices.
• Experience mentoring technical professionals and providing guidance to project teams.
• Experience interacting with clients and communicating technical recommendations, alternatives, and project impacts.
• Experience supporting proposals, scope development, cost estimating, business development, or seller-doer activities preferred.
• Relevant field, construction, testing, commissioning, compliance, or operational experience may be required based on the assigned technical specialty.

Additional Position Details

• Work is performed in a professional work environment, with work location and reporting expectations determined by business needs and position requirements. Some field work may be required.
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and operate a computer and other office productivity equipment.
• Frequently communicates and collaborates with clients, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders.
• Must be able to move around project sites and work in indoor or outdoor environments as required.
• Travel may be required based on client and project needs.

Cultural Fit

• Independent yet Collaborative
• Dependable
• Creative Problem Solver
• Natural Communicator
• Flexible
• Results oriented
• Client Focused
• Enthusiastic

Fair Labor Standards Act

• Exempt | Overtime pay is not required

Disclaimer

• The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.
• If your current job responsibilities differ from your assigned duties, please contact Human Resources.