Job Description:

• 1) Plans construction and coordinates operation of facilities for transmitting power from distribution points to consumers: Lays out substations and overhead and underground lines in urban and rural areas.

• 2) Prepares specifications and estimates costs.

• 3) Makes complex electrical computations to determine type and arrangement of circuits and size, type and number of pieces of equipment, such as transformers, circuit breakers, switches, and lightning arresters.

• 4) Computes sag and stress for specifications on wire and cable.

• 5) Plans layout of pole lines and underground cable and solves problems, such as determining height, location, spacing, guying, and insulating of poles.

• 6) May be designated according to specialization as Overhead-Distribution Engineer; Rural-Service Engineer; Substation Engineer; Underground-Distribution Engineer.