Mesa Associates, Inc

Software Engineer

• Act as Lead Engineer on moderately complex studies and settings projects
• Interface with clients, other engineering firms, and internal departments
• Identify study/settings input requirements and coordinate collection of input information and data
• Conceptualize initial design approaches for major project phases or take overall engineering responsibility for routine projects
• Prepare and verify calculations using engineering formulas, skills, or application-specific software
• Manage personal task assignments within scope, schedule, and budget
• Monitor project milestones and schedules
• Perform technical and coordination checking/review of deliverables and project or study documents
• Ensure deliverables comply with procedures and applicable design requirements
• Prepare reports documenting study or settings processes and results
• Assist clients with compliance requirements
• Mentor less experienced associates
• Accept responsibility for technical adequacy of deliverables
• Lead studies and complete assignments on schedule and under budget
• Develop relay protection schemes using microprocessor-based relays for transmission and distribution assets
• Perform protective device coordination for transmission lines, buses, transformers, capacitor banks, circuit breakers, and reactors
• Develop logic settings for relay schemes
• Perform area protective device coordination studies
• Develop system component modeling

Relay Engineering Specialist II

Civil Engineer

• Lead structural analysis and design of steel poles, wood poles, lattice towers, guyed towers, and specialty structures
• Apply expertise in historic and current transmission materials, including legacy wood, historic steel, modern high-strength steels, composites, and advanced coatings
• Evaluate existing structures for upgrades, reconductoring, hardening, clearance improvements, and joint-use attachments
• Perform advanced loading evaluations using NESC, ASCE 7, ASCE 48, ASCE 10, and utility-specific criteria
• Conduct structural modeling using PLS-CADD, PLS-POLE, TOWER, and related tools
• Review and approve structural packages prepared by others
• Design bridges, access roads, and impacts of other underground utilities
• Engineer transmission foundations including drilled shafts, spread footings, rock anchors, micropiles, and hybrid foundation systems
• Design modern foundation systems using high-performance concrete, composite reinforcement, and advanced anchoring technologies
• Review and approve foundation packages for accuracy, compliance, and constructability
• Design retaining wall structures to mitigate soil erosion and stabilize soil
• Serve as Engineer of Record for transmission structural and foundation packages across multiple states
• Lead and mentor Senior Engineers, Engineers, and Engineering Associates
• Establish and enforce structural QA/QC standards, calculation templates, and design methodologies
• Identify quality issues, technical risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Provide field support for construction issues and resolve concerns promptly
• Present structural solutions to clients and stakeholders
• Support project managers with scope development, schedule planning, and budget alignment
• Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and project strategy meetings

Principal Structural Engineer – Transmission Lines

• Read, understand, and help produce Protection & Control design drawings, including Single Line, AC/DC Schematic, Elementary and Connection diagrams, Front & Rear View Layout/Elevation drawings, and Bills of Material
• Produce connection diagrams based on AC/DC schematics
• Perform Protection & Control engineering design work for power delivery substations
• Use AutoCAD for design work
• Self-check design work before submission to checkers
• Investigate solutions to design problems independently

Relay Engineering Specialist II

Principal Structural Engineer – Transmission Lines

Protection & Control Engineering Associate II