Automation Engineering Manager Jobs in Leander, TX

We are designing the grid of the future! 

We are seeking a Senior Manager - Transmission Planning Utilities with expert knowledge of the ERCOT/NYISO/NEISO system to lead a team of Engineering Managers and technical experts delivering valuable and forward-thinking services to utilities and ISOs. This role is accountable for ensuring excellent execution, technical oversight, client management and staff development. Candidates who are high performers, organized, agile, and adaptable will be successful in this role.

How you can make an impact:

Management and Operations:

• Provide expert level understanding of the ERCOT system to both EPE and ERCOT team members
• Support transmission engineering managers and individual contributors for planning, studies, modeling, and automation etc.
• Take responsibility for the team's timely completion of a portfolio of projects while meeting project quality and budget objectives
• Provide guidance, knowledge, and experience to electrical engineers performing power system steady state, short circuit, dynamic stability, and electromagnetic transient studies
• Develop team resource utilization and revenue forecasting to keep the team on track to meet billable hour and revenue targets and ensure effective hiring/resource management
• Promote process improvement efforts to enhance efficiency
• Maintain EPE's high client satisfaction

Business Development Support:

• Support responses to RFPs and development of Scopes of Work
• Participate and coordinate industry involvement through conferences, speaking opportunities, and engagements
• Build and manage key customer relationships

Bring your passion, here's what's needed:

• Exceptional understanding of project execution, team, and time management in a consulting environment with proven success
• Strong people skills, with ability to draw confidence, ensure technical accuracy, and maintain client satisfaction
• Independent critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to keep multiple projects and client engagements active at once
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to navigate uncertainty
• Proven team player skills with ability to build and maintain internal and external relationships
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, excellent business, and technical writing
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong time management skills

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
• 7+ years of experience in power systems engineering roles
• Experience or familiarity with PSS/E, TARA, DSATools, Aspen, and other transmission analysis tools

Lead the change!

Be a part of an innovative team shaping the grid of the future through advanced energy intelligence.  For more than half a century, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe, providing consulting expertise and energy intelligence software solutions for complex engineering and grid modeling challenges. As leaders in the renewables space, we are focused on building a modern, secure, and resilient grid.   Join us in making an impact on the communities we serve and the environment in which we live. Together we can transform the future of energy.  

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• MyShare Employee ownership program
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
• Flexible Work including hybrid and remote possibilities based on position.

Location: This position is open to Remote US

Travel:  Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less)

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links: EEOC is the Law Poster

Third-Party Recruiting Notification

EPE does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters. Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to EPE via our career page or to any of our managers or employees will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency. EPE will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed third-party agreement and has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Talent Acquisition team.