Engineering Tech 1/2/Sr - Electric
BHE Renewables
Salary undisclosed
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Description
Provide engineering services for cost estimating, design, work instructions, and coordination of construction and maintenance projects on MidAmerican Energy Company's electric delivery system. (20%)
Prepares routine construction work requests, including work instruction preparation, construction site drawings, preparation of material lists, and engineering calculations. (20%)
Performs a variety of routine field work including, but not limited to locating and sizing services, load determination, utility easement acquisition, staking, and minor survey work. (15%)
Actively engages with customer requests and responds to service needs as appropriate. Works collaboratively with residential and commercial construction developers. (15%)
Provide routine project management for all phases of a project including scheduling, design, estimates, drawings, cost tracking, and project cost projections. (10%)
Verifies and documents construction site readiness, ensuring MEC requirements are met for backfill, grading, and conduit installation requirements. (5%)
Provides customers with scheduling notifications as appropriate (may include but not limited to email, text alerts, and/or phone calls). Also provides customers with scheduling change notifications via the same mediums. (5%)
Provide support for work requests, resolves issues, and ensures crews understand work scope, detail, and structure. (5%)
Ensures that customer inquiries and engineering detail adhere to standard operating procedures involving tariff application, extension rules and agreements, service rules, code requirements, service entrance, and metering requirements. (0-5%)
Responsible for emergency response activities, outage response supervisory activities, outage dispatch, downed wire investigation and field damage assessment. (0-5%)
May require travel and overnight stay as workload dictates. (0-5%)
Performs additional responsibilities as requested or assigned. (0-5%)
Demonstration of knowledge and understanding of human performance improvement techniques. Evaluate present practices and implement processes, concepts, training and tools to prevent, detect and correct human errors that may adversely impact the safe, reliable operation of the electric distribution system.
Qualifications
Engineering Tech 1:
Associate's degree in a technical field such as civil, electrical, mechanical, construction, computer aided drafting, electrical trade, project management, or equivalent work experience. (Typically three years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess an associate's degree in a technical field.)
Two years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design is required for the engineering technician level. In lieu of an associate's degree and work experience a bachelor's degree will be considered.
Effective verbal and written communications skills. Effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple task and projects concurrently.
Engineering Tech 2:
Associate's degree in a technical field such as civil, electrical, mechanical, construction, computer aided drafting, electrical trade, project management or equivalent related work experience. (Typically three years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess an associate’s degree.)
Three years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design.
Exceptional verbal and written communications skills. Effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple task and projects concurrently.
Sr Engineering Tech:
Associate's degree in a technical field such as civil, electrical, mechanical, construction, computer aided drafting, electrical trade, project management or equivalent related work experience. (Typically three years of related, progressive work experience would be needed for candidates applying for this position who do not possess an associate’s degree.)
Five years of related work experience in field of construction management, civil engineering, computer aided drafting or electrical infrastructure construction and/or design is required for the senior engineering technician level.
Exceptional verbal and written communications skills. Effective analytical and problem-solving skills. Project management skills; ability to prioritize and handle multiple task and projects concurrently.
MidAmerican Energy Company, a Midwest utility, provides regulated electric and natural gas service to more than 1.6 million customers in Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. The company owns and operates a portfolio of power-generating assets, approximately 61% of which is wind generation.About this role
BHE Renewables is hiring engineering technicians at three levels to support MidAmerican Energy Company's electric delivery system in Council Bluffs. The role blends office and field work, with roughly equal time spent on cost estimating, design, and construction coordination alongside hands-on tasks like service location, staking, and site verification. You'll manage projects from start to finish—scheduling, budgeting, and tracking costs—while responding to customer requests and working with residential and commercial developers. The position also involves field inspections to ensure construction meets utility standards, occasional emergency response, and customer communication about scheduling and service changes.
The entry-level Engineering Tech 1 position requires an associate's degree in a technical field (civil, electrical, mechanical, construction, CAD, or electrical trade) plus two years of related experience, or a bachelor's degree. Tech 2 and Senior roles call for progressively more experience—three and five years respectively—along with increasingly strong communication and project management skills. All levels need solid analytical abilities and the capacity to juggle multiple projects at once. Occasional travel may be required depending on workload.
This is a full-time, in-office role suited to someone with a technical background who wants hands-on involvement in utility infrastructure while developing project management expertise. The work is concrete and varied, mixing design work with field problem-solving across a major Midwest utility's electric system.
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