Transmission Line Technical Manager

Job Summary
The Transmission Line Technical Manager supports Actalent’s Transmission Practice by leading the day-to-day delivery of transmission line engineering work across client programs and project portfolios. This role is accountable for developing technical talent, maintaining delivery discipline, monitoring portfolio health, and ensuring work is executed with a strong focus on safety, quality, schedule, cost, and client outcomes. The Technical Manager partners closely with Delivery leadership, project management, technical teams, and utility clients to strengthen execution, support business growth, and advance Actalent’s position as a trusted engineering partner in the power delivery market.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Lead engineers, designers, drafters, and project coordinators delivering transmission line engineering services for utility clients.
Provide technical leadership, coaching, and training in transmission line design, standards, tools, and delivery expectations, including one-on-one mentorship as needed.
Establish and reinforce quality control practices that support safe, accurate, cost-effective, and schedule-driven project execution.
Monitor project portfolio health, including scope, schedule, budget, staffing, quality, risks, and client satisfaction.
Communicate delivery performance, project risks, and operational trends to Delivery leadership, project managers, and client stakeholders.
Hold teams accountable to project baselines and ensure scope changes, change orders, estimate revisions, and delivery impacts are escalated and resolved in a timely manner.
Partner with clients and internal stakeholders to understand program priorities, align expectations, and keep deliverables moving efficiently.
Serve as a client-facing technical and delivery liaison to address issues, remove barriers, and resolve project or process inefficiencies.
Support resolution of invoicing, resourcing, staffing, scope, and execution issues that affect delivery performance.
Facilitate alignment between clients and internal teams when disagreements arise related to scope, standards, processes, deliverables, or expectations.
Drive team development by identifying training needs, supporting career growth, and building technical depth within Actalent’s Transmission Practice.
Minimum Education, Abilities, and Skills
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; Professional Engineer (PE) certification required
Ten years of progressive utility, power delivery, and/or transmission line engineering experience with increasing responsibility.
Six years of consulting, engineering services, or client-facing delivery experience working with engineering, construction, planning, project management, and utility stakeholders.
Demonstrated leadership experience managing multidisciplinary technical teams across distributed or virtual delivery environments.
Experience executing, monitoring, tracking, and managing risk across a project portfolio greater than $5M in revenue.
Strong understanding of transmission line project delivery, including scope management, quality control, scheduling, resourcing, estimating, and client communication.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical and delivery issues into clear, actionable updates for clients and leadership.
Strong desire to develop self and others technically, professionally, and personally.
Clear understanding of the value of supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
High level of personal character, professionalism, and integrity.
Collaborative team player with the ability to work effectively across Actalent delivery, sales, project management, and technical teams.
Strong experience managing business finances, project performance, utilization, staffing plans, and operational metrics.
Client-focused mindset with the ability to balance technical quality, delivery performance, consultant development, and business objectives.

Work arrangement
Yes