Manager - Testing & Commissioning Engineering (Northern suburbs - Chicago)

Location: Libertyville, Illinois, United States; onsite. The role may require extended hours during storms, equipment restoration, and other emergent energy delivery activities.

Annual salary: $123,200–$169,400, plus an annual bonus opportunity of 20%.

Company

hirify.global is a Fortune 200 energy company serving more than 10.7 million customers through six utility companies, including ComEd.

What you will do

• Lead and manage 9–15 testing and commissioning engineers, field engineers, technicians, and supporting contractors.
• Plan and direct field testing, troubleshooting, maintenance, construction, and commissioning of transmission and distribution power equipment, communication systems, and protection and control systems.
• Provide technical authority and review equipment testing and commissioning plans, engineering drawings, standards, specifications, and field results.
• Qualify engineers under the TCE onboarding and qualification matrix, provide coaching and technical training, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Coordinate resources, schedules, projects, maintenance programs, and emergent activities with operations, construction, engineering, asset management, and regional groups.
• Maintain safety, reliability, compliance, and incident-mitigation processes, including support for nuclear switchyard relaying and communication equipment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or another technical discipline, or an associate degree with 9–12 years of relevant experience.
• 7–10 years of transmission and substation industry experience, including at least 5 years performing field testing and commissioning; associate-degree candidates need at least 7 years of field testing and commissioning experience.
• 3–5 years of supervisory or managerial experience leading teams and managing complex projects.
• Expertise in substation and transmission systems, protection and control devices, operating, maintenance, and construction practices, and electrical equipment troubleshooting.
• Valid driver’s license and successful completion of the Leadership Assessment.
• Ability to communicate effectively, build consensus, enforce safe work practices, manage personnel across multiple jobsites, and support long-term planning.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in engineering or advanced system protection training.
• Professional Engineering license.
• Experience with utility financial management, process improvements, human-performance error prevention, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Ability to pass necessary nuclear badging criteria.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on safety, innovation, integrity, diversity, environmental compliance, community service, and high performance.
• 401(k) match and annual company contribution.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Paid vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity and parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement, wellbeing and fitness reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance, employee assistance resources, and referral bonuses.