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# Manager - Renewable Substations at Atwell, LLC

- **Company:** Atwell, LLC
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $100k–$165k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atwellgroup/jobs/5288095007

## Job description

## 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 work is delivered within established scope, schedule, budget, technical, safety, and quality requirements.
- Support development of technical scopes, assumptions, estimates, schedules, proposals, and documentation for new work and project changes in coordination with Project Managers.
- Partner with Project Managers and technical leaders to coordinate multidisciplinary work and maintain appropriate coverage across project scopes.
- Support proposal development, marketing activities, client pursuits, and business development through technical input and resource-planning support.
- Support client relationships by helping resolve technical and delivery concerns and promoting consistent, responsive service.
- Perform other job-related responsibilities as assigned.

Must-Have Qualifications

- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold accountable multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Ability to maintain accountability for team deliverable quality, schedule performance, work efficiency, and adherence to established processes.
- Strong workload-planning and resource-forecasting skills, including team assignments, project coverage, milestones, and estimate-to-complete information.
- Working knowledge of project budgets, financial performance, estimates, project controls, and operational performance measures.
- Strong technical-review and QA/QC capabilities with the ability to identify quality, constructability, compliance, coordination, and execution concerns.
- Ability to investigate and resolve technical, workload, resource, safety, and project-delivery concerns and escalate issues appropriately.
- Ability to support technical scopes, estimates, schedules, assumptions, proposals, and project-change documentation.
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal, coaching, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Project Managers, Technical Advisors, leaders, clients, contractors, vendors, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong working knowledge of renewable-substation electrical engineering, including medium- and low-voltage distribution, switchgear, motor control, instrumentation and controls, Protection and Control, SCADA, grounding, and power-system studies.
- Proficiency with engineering, design-review, project-delivery, workload-planning, and business productivity tools applicable to the assigned specialty.
- Demonstrates commitment to Atwell quality and safety standards, employee development, ethical conduct, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
- 6-10 years of experience in renewable-substation, utility-substation, electrical-power, engineering, field, or related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience leading and developing engineers, designers, drafters, technicians, or other technical professionals.
- Experience managing team workload, resource assignments, schedules, project coverage, and technical deliverables across multiple projects.
- Experience supporting QA/QC, project budgets, forecasting, risk management, proposals, project planning, and operational improvement.

Additional Position Details

- Work is performed in a professional work environment, with work location and reporting expectations determined by business needs and position requirements. Some field work may be required.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods and operate a computer and other office productivity equipment.
- Frequently communicates and collaborates with clients, engineers, designers, contractors, vendors, and project stakeholders.
- Must be able to move around project sites and work in indoor or outdoor environments as required.
- Travel may be required based on client and project needs.

Cultural Fit

- Independent yet Collaborative
- Dependable
- Creative Problem Solver
- Natural Communicator
- Flexible
- Results Oriented
- Client Focused
- Enthusiastic

Fair Labor Standards Act

- Exempt | Overtime pay is not required.

Disclaimer

- The information contained herein is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to perform the job.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the USA.
- If current job responsibilities differ from assigned duties, please contact Human Resources.

Pay Range $100,000—$165,000 USD

Atwell Benefits: To attract and retain the best professionals in the industry, we aim to provide an excellent working environment and a progressive benefits program designed to support your personal and professional needs.

Work/Life:

- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible work schedules are available for some positions
- Tenure Awards — Travel Vouchers to see the world based on your travel preferences

Compensation:

- Competitive Compensation packages
- Annual bonuses, spot bonuses and peer recognition awards
- 401K match - 1:1 up to 4% of compensation
- Tuition Assistance
- Student Loan Repayment
- Paid Licensing / Certification Fees and Renewals
- Financial Rewards for Obtaining Licensure
- Employee Referrals
- Annual Wellness Reimbursement for anything wellness related (Gym memberships, fitness tracker, home gym equipment, etc.)
- Dependent Care Match

‘Atwell’ness:

- Medical (BC/BS), Dental (Delta), and Vision (VSP)
- Family Planning & IVF Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Health Savings Account & Flex Spending Account options
- Employer paid LTD, STD, and life insurance
- Metlife Supplemental Benefits covering accident, hospitalization, and critical illness
- Member Assistance Program (MAP) with complimentary counseling sessions, legal benefits, financial consultations, and work/life referral services

## About Atwell, LLC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atwell is a full-service consulting, engineering, and construction firm providing comprehensive solutions for the built environment across real estate, energy, and infrastructure markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Southfield, Michigan, USA
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Real Estate & Land Development, Power & Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, Surveying & Mapping, Construction Management
- **Target customers**: B2B — developers, energy companies, government agencies, and infrastructure clients
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We create solutions for the built environment." The company positions itself as a strategic advisor and partner for turnkey consulting, engineering, and construction services.

## Products & Services
- **Real Estate & Land Development**: Full-service engineering, planning, and design for master-planned communities, commercial sites, and mixed-use developments.
- **Power & Renewable Energy**: Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for solar, wind, battery storage, and high-voltage electrical infrastructure.
- **Oil & Gas**: Midstream engineering, pipeline and facilities design, surveying, and project management for the hydrocarbons sector.
- **Surveying & Mapping**: GIS documentation, land surveying, and location technology services (e.g., 5,400 miles of GIS documentation for a multi-state infrastructure project).
- **Strategic Construction Solutions**: A subsidiary specializing in EPC for HV electrical construction, BESS balance of plant, and carbon capture infrastructure.
- **RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture**: A subsidiary focused on national planning and landscape architecture for communities, workplaces, and public spaces.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Private company; revenue not disclosed. The company reports low turnover and high retention as a key internal metric.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available. The company operates as the "Atwell Family of Companies," which includes Atwell, RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture, and Strategic Construction Solutions.
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring across multiple disciplines (133 open roles as of the search date) in land development, oil & gas, power & renewable energy, IT, finance, and marketing. It has a national footprint with offices across the US and is expanding its ESG and sustainability initiatives.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-service, turnkey model**: Offers consulting, engineering, and construction under one roof, allowing seamless collaboration across project phases.
- **Family of Companies structure**: Includes specialized subsidiaries (RVi for planning/landscape architecture, Strategic Construction Solutions for EPC) that provide deep expertise while enabling cross-team collaboration.
- **Employee-focused culture**: The company explicitly states that "the right cultural fit is just as important as the right technical fit" and reports low turnover and high retention as a result of its investment in employee development and well-being.
- **Strong values framework**: A clear set of nine core values (e.g., "Always do the right thing," "Be bold. Be creative. Be unafraid to try.") that guide operations and hiring.

## Strategic Focus
- **Sustainability & ESG**: Formalizing an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) plan to align business practices with long-term value creation and community impact.
- **Talent development**: Investing in robust onboarding, mentorship programs, continuing education, and a Learning Management System to support employee growth and retention.
- **Cross-market collaboration**: Leveraging the "Family of Companies" structure to offer integrated, turnkey solutions across real estate, energy, and infrastructure sectors.
- **Community impact**: Through the Atwell Gives Foundation, focusing on STEM education and opportunities for youth, including a partnership with Science Olympiad.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Atwell emphasizes a culture of respect, collaboration, and camaraderie, with a stated commitment to being "the employer of choice within the markets we serve." The company values cultural fit as much as technical fit.
- **Flexibility**: Offers flexible schedules, remote and hybrid working arrangements.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive healthcare plans, flexible PTO for salaried staff, paid parental leave, annual wellness reimbursement, tuition assistance, and student loan repayment support.
- **Development**: Robust onboarding with an assigned Ambassador, a formal mentorship program after six months, a Learning Management System with extensive training, and continuing education support.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for connection and support; a stated commitment to creating an inclusive environment where employees can bring their authentic selves.
- **Work environment**: The company reports low turnover and high retention, citing its investment in employee development and well-being as key drivers.
- **Locations**: Multiple offices across the US, with roles available in Colorado, Texas, Delaware, Maryland, and more.

## Sources
1. [atwell.com](https://atwell.com/)
2. [atwell.com/careers](https://atwell.com/careers/)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/atwellgroup](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/atwellgroup)
4. [atwell.com/about-atwell/culture](https://atwell.com/about-atwell/culture/)
5. [atwell.com/about-atwell/our-companies](https://atwell.com/about-atwell/our-companies/)

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