Who We Are
Atwell, LLC is a bold leader in the consulting, engineering, and construction services industry, delivering a broad range of creative solutions to clients in the real estate & land development, and energy markets. We have a strong national presence and a diverse, award-winning project portfolio. Atwell is a privately owned company, with 2,000+ passionate team members across 75+ locations and growing!
Atwell, LLC is a proud recipient of the following 2025 awards:
Ten consecutive years in a row as a “Best Place to Work” by Zweig Group (#11)
Recognized as #70 in the ENR Top 500 Design Firms, ranked in every region
Recognized in Crain's “Fast 50” as one of the fastest-growing companies (#14)
Recognized as the 2025 ENR Design Firm of the year for the Southeastern US
About the Position
As a Manager in Renewable Substations, you will lead engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals responsible for electrical engineering scopes supporting renewable substations and related facilities. This role combines people leadership, technical oversight, workload planning, quality accountability, project support, and team development. In this role, an employee will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in the essential functions outlined below.
Essential Responsibilities
Lead, manage, mentor, and develop engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, and other technical professionals supporting the assigned specialty.
Maintain accountability for the accurate, timely, and quality completion of engineering and design scopes assigned to the team.
Establish clear expectations and support employee development through coaching, feedback, training, performance management, individualized development planning, and succession planning.
Assess team strengths, development needs, and technical capabilities and coordinate appropriate work assignments, training, and mentoring based on project requirements and employee development needs.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and high-performing team environment focused on quality, safety, professional growth, and continuous improvement.
Lead workload forecasting, resource planning, staffing decisions, team scheduling, and project performance monitoring to maintain appropriate project coverage.
Maintain visibility into active projects, milestone dates, resource assignments, estimate-to-complete information, and workload constraints.
Coordinate project assignments and team priorities with Project Managers, technical leaders, operations, and organizational leadership.
Monitor team-level project budgets, estimate-to-complete information, and financial performance in coordination with Project Managers and organizational leadership.
Identify and address workload, resource, schedule, quality, safety, and project-delivery risks before they affect project continuity or client commitments.
Support improvements in standards, workflows, tools, and team practices that enhance quality, consistency, efficiency, predictability, and project performance.
Oversee substation electrical engineering and design, including one-line and three-line diagrams, control and relaying schematics, wiring, SCADA and communications, conduit and cable systems, grounding, equipment selection, specifications, general arrangements, estimates, and schedules.
Oversee power-system studies, protective relay settings, relaying and control-system activities, equipment review, submittals, and related technical documentation.
Provide or coordinate QA/QC reviews of engineering and design deliverables and reinforce applicable codes, standards, client requirements, and construction practices.
Support field assistance, testing, troubleshooting, observation reporting, start-up, commissioning, and value-engineering activities.
Coordinate project work with design, studies, physical engineering, SCADA, civil, structural, and project-management teams.
Support project planning and execution to help ensure assigned…