Engineering Advisor
Salt Lake, UT - USA
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Job Summary
QISG leverages Quantas comprehensive resources to deliver collaborative solutions for our partners energy infrastructure needs. We use in-house talent expertise and resources to plan design engineer manage conduct maintenance on and construct projects.
Our turnkey service capabilities provide our customers with efficiency consistency attention to detail and safe execution. The QISG team brings together Engineering Safety Quality Material Procurement QA/QC Right-of-Way Acquisition Scheduling Environmental Planning Permitting Title and Land Management expertise that ensure outstanding results for our clients.
Every moment of every day people all over the world rely on electricity provided by Quanta Services and its customers. With its highly skilled and innovative workforce Quanta is the largest specialty contractor in North America that powers modern life. Find your future with us by being a part of something bigger leading the energy transition in building a better world for generations to come.
We encourage and inspire our people to embrace opportunities within our corporate office and 200 operating companies providing solutions for the utility renewable energy electric power industrial and communications industries worldwide.
Quantas culture is about creating an environment where all employees can be themselves are valued and have an equal opportunity to succeed. When you join our team you join a dynamic culture in which career development is encouraged excellence is rewarded and diversity is valued.
Position Overview
The Engineering Advisor is an enterprise-level technical authority who provides strategic high-impact advisory support across transmission and substation engineering programs. This role leverages extensive industry experience to guide executive leadership engineering organizations and project teams on the most complex technical execution and risk-related challenges facing the business.
Operating as a trusted advisor this role influences engineering strategy governance and technical direction across the organization without direct day-to-day people management responsibilities. The Engineering Advisor plays a critical role in safeguarding technical integrity driving consistency and enabling successful delivery of large-scale high-risk infrastructure programs.
Executive Technical Advisory & Leadership
- Serve as a technical advisor for transmission and substation engineering activities
- Provide expert guidance to executive leadership on complex technical constructability and delivery challenges
- Advise on enterprise-level engineering risk technical governance and decision-making
- Serve as an escalation point for critical technical issues across major programs and regions
Engineering Governance & Standards Leadership
- Guide development interpretation and enforcement of engineering standards policies and best practices
- Influence enterprise quality assurance and quality control strategies
- Identify systemic technical risks and recommend proactive mitigation measures
- Lead or support lessons-learned initiatives and technical improvement programs
Program & Portfolio Advisory Support
- Provide advisory oversight across multiple large complex transmission and substation programs
- Participate in executive design reviews project risk assessments and constructability evaluations
- Advise on change management claims support and technical dispute resolution
- Support projects during critical phases including pursuit design development construction and closeout
Strategic & Business Advisory Support
- Partner with executive leadership to shape long-term engineering strategy and technical capability development
- Support business development and pursuit strategy with senior-level technical insight
- Evaluate emerging technologies delivery models and industry trends for strategic adoption
- Collaborate with Operations Safety Quality Project Controls Supply Chain and Finance leaders to align technical strategy with business objectives
Mentorship Influence & Industry Leadership
- Provide mentorship and coaching to senior engineers and technical leaders
- Influence engineering culture through knowledge sharing technical guidance and leadership by example
- Represent the organization in high-level technical forums industry committees and client engagements
- Serve as a trusted technical voice with clients regulators and industry partners
Travel Requirements
- Travel: Yes
- Percent of Time: Up to 1025% based on enterprise and program needs
Required Experience and Education
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or graduate degree in Engineering from an ABET-accredited university
- 20 of progressive experience in electric utility power delivery or infrastructure engineering
- Extensive experience supporting transmission and substation engineering programs
- Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision-making through sound technical judgment
- Proven experience advising senior leaders on complex high-risk technical challenges
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) license strongly preferred
- Experience operating at an enterprise or multi-region leadership level
- Background in EPC design-build or utility environments
Technical & Professional Skills
- Expert-level understanding of electric utility engineering principles standards and construction practices
- Deep knowledge of applicable industry codes and standards (ANSI ASTM ACI AISC NEC NESC IEEE IEC etc.)
- Exceptional analytical problem-solving and risk management capabilities
- Strong business acumen and ability to balance technical rigor with commercial realities
- Outstanding written verbal and executive-level communication skills
- Ability to operate effectively in highly complex ambiguous and high-impact environments
- Competitive executive-level compensation commensurate with experience
- Comprehensive health and retirement benefits
- Flexible structure emphasizing technical leadership and strategic influence
- Opportunity to shape engineering practices across major infrastructure programs
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion national origin or ancestry sex (including gender pregnancy sexual orientation and/or gender identity) age disability genetic information veteran status and/or any other basis protected by applicable federal state or local law.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and protected veteran status.
We prohibit all types of discrimination and are committed to providing access and equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities. For additional information or if reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application interview or hiring processes or to perform the essential functions of a position please contact us the Companys Human Resources department.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
Quanta has built the largest craft labor force in North America by uniting over 200 operating companies to tackle the most complex infrastructure challenges in the world.