About the job

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K&A Engineering Consulting P.C. (K&A) - is a people-first organization. We value knowledge and learning. We believe in the power of connection, and collaboration, and we seek to build relationships that mean something. We employ some of the best and brightest in our industry and we work hard to maintain a culture that our people can be proud of. Our company has earned its reputation through challenging work, uncompromising precision and continuous learning and adapting.

K&A Engineering is a privately held, providing comprehensive consulting, engineering and design, program/project management, construction management, and support services to power utility and industrial clients. K&A's experience includes all aspects of generation, transmission, substations, distribution, energy efficiency, and distributed energy resource (DER) projects, from planning and environmental and regulatory analyses through engineering and design, construction, program management, project controls, and commissioning. The utility industry is a vast market, and K&A quickly established our name and reputation as a top-tier service provider. We were recently ranked #126 on the Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and the top engineering firm with a three-year growth rate of 3,166%.

Overview

Due to Company growth, we are actively seeking a Transmission Line Engineer to join our Engineering team in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Qualifications

• Proficient in AutoCAD, Google Earth and PLSCADD
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• 3-5 Years of Experience in Utilities/ Consulting
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
• Ability to handle support projects
• Proactive and independent
• Out of the box thinker
  

Responsibilities
Transmission Line Engineer services include but are not limited to the following:

• Perform closely with various engineering as well as design team members to coordinate entire design package as well as requirements
• Improve continuously job-related, technical, engineering, and professional knowledge, performance, and skills.
• Plan, organize, estimate, schedule and effectively monitor all work activities
• Conductor Selection/Sizing for overhead and underground Transmission Line
• Insulation, A/C interference, static wire, grounding studies
• Line Design: Conductor Selection/Sizing, Sag Template, Tower Spotting and Tower Scheduling, and Plans and Profiles Drawing
• Lead overall transmission line design for all capital projects
• Review/Design/Model Medium voltage (MV)/ High Voltage (HV) Transmission Line using PLSCADD to ensure compliance with the company’s TM standards and NESC/other standards
• Drive the project plan for transmission line routing and strategy, specifically:
• Decide whether to rebuild existing lines or obtain additional right of way based on area congestion and local politics/permitting issues
• Determine routing in and around into congested stations to optimize design/reliability and minimize the number of crossings
• Other studies as required to complete the projects