Job Description

About CORE

CORE Electric Cooperative is the largest member-owned electric distribution cooperative in Colorado dedicated to providing reliable, affordable, clean, and safe electric service to our communities. With a commitment to innovation and member satisfaction, we strive to meet the evolving needs of our members while maintaining the highest standards of service excellence.

Job Summary 

Responsible for the engineering tasks related to design, construction, and inspection of overhead and underground electric distribution facilities for new consumer, consumer upgrade, and system improvement projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs engineering and inspection for new construction, conversions, and system improvement projects. Performs survey and layout work in the field.
• Prepares engineering and staking documents which include drawings, calculations, construction costs, and outlines of required work, including a list of materials needed to complete the projects.
• Meets with new and existing members, builders, developers, electricians, and engineering firms to determine electrical power requirements.
• Conducts predesign meetings, preconstruction meetings and final walk throughs in a timely manner.
• Inspect work performed by construction crews to ensure construction meets design requirements, company specifications & standards and NESC & NEC requirements.
• Maintains financial control on projects.
• Identifies required easements and permitting, communicate requirements to the customer and report in CORE’s work management system.
• Documents all inquiries and other correspondence from consumers and uploads to CORE’s Document management system.
• Coordinates the installation of underground and overhead systems. Inspects work completed by contractors and checks and reviews contractor billing data for accuracy.
• Reviews customer provided site development plans, electrical one-lines, and panel schedules to calculate load and transformer requirements, and design.
• Prepares project change orders and submit to the customer in a timely manner.
• Responds in a timely manner to inquiries by inspectors and construction personnel.
• Provides weekly status updates in company work management system for projects in design, construction and as-built.
• Completes as-builts within a timely manner meeting contract requirements.
• Prepares master plans, as needed.
• Mentors other staff members.
• Responsible for document control of assigned projects.
• Ensures executed easements, final plats, waivers, etc. have been received and filed in CORE’s document management system at the time a project is released for construction.
• Performs peer review of designs completed by other company staff including confirming consistency with company standards, specifications, and practices.

Minimum Qualifications of Position

• High school diploma or equivalent certificate is required.
• Associate degree in related field.
• Five or more years of practical equivalent experience required and written demonstration of practical skills. Additional education may be substituted for years of experience.
• Requires valid Colorado driver’s license with satisfactory driving record within CORE standards.
• Competent with position-specific software and applications.
• Competent with Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint.
• Competent with general office equipment.

Preferred Qualifications of Position 

• Associate degree in electrical engineering or engineering technology is preferred.

Knowledge and Skills

• Integrity: Exhibits a high degree of integrity and honesty.
• Diplomacy: able to use appropriate diplomacy and tact with employees, members, customers, and other contacts.
• Communication: Ability to effectively read, write and speak the English language to communicate in a clear, straight-forward, and professional manner.
• Critical Thinking: using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Active Listening: giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Active Learning: understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Problem Solving: identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Coordination: adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Service Orientation: actively looking for ways to help people.
• Judgment and Decision Making: considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Systems Analysis : determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Time Management: managing one’s own time OR managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Social Perceptiveness: being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Learning Strategies: selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Equipment Selection: determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Persuasion: persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Negotiation: bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Project Management: organizing and directing production of a limited scope plan or undertaking.
• Mathematics: using mathematics to solve problems
• Management of Financial Resources: determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Operations Analysis: analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Science: using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.
• Confidentiality: able to exercise appropriate discretion and confidentiality OR able to exercise discretion, confidentiality, and objectivity in complex and sensitive situations.

Application Deadline

The application deadline is estimated to be March 12, 2026, or until the position is filled. The posting may close earlier or remain open longer depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. We encourage interested applicants to apply promptly.

Working Conditions and Physical Requirements

• Medium work : Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
• The worker is subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes, odors, dusts, mists, gases, or poor ventilation.

Note: This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Other duties may be assigned.

CORE offers a comprehensive benefits package including the following...

• 9/80 work schedule: every other Friday off!
• Nine paid holidays per year
• 160 Hours of accruable PTO per year
• Paid parental leave
  
• Education and training reimbursement
• Volunteer paid time off
• 100% Cooperative paid benefits, including:
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Employee assistance program
• Life insurance
• HSA with employer contribution
• 401(k) with up to 4% match. Immediately 100% vested
• Length of service program
• Free Onsite EV charging stations (at certain locations)
• Onsite micro market (at certain locations)
• Onsite gym with golf simulator and massage chairs (at certain locations)

CORE is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap or disability, or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran in accordance with federal law. If you need assistance, please reach out to us at hr@core.coop  

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