Electrical Designer/Engineer

Responsible for

• Meeting firm engineering quality levels for discipline on assigned projects.
• Overseeing development of design concepts by Designers and ensuring proper application and execution.
• Verifying Designer's work quality regarding specifications, reports, code application, submittal review, equipment selection, deliverables, and drawings.
• Mentoring and encouraging development of Designer-level staff.
• Applying firm risk management practices of project engineering.
• Leading the discipline design to produce construction documents that meet project requirements within allocated schedule and budget while minimizing erroneous efforts.
• Having a solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and advanced concepts to execute all required aspects of discipline engineering.
• Encouraging collaboration to seek the best solutions.
• Front-end loading projects and applying best practices to set the proper direction of the project in SDs and DDs.
• Managing work plans and deliverables on multiple projects within budgeted hours.
• Writing studies and reports for Electrical systems on projects.
• Executing complex electrical designs with conflicting design requirements or difficult coordination.
• Evaluating Value Engineering (cost cutting) items with respect to firm risk.
• Developing basis of design narratives documenting project scope.
• Meeting with contractors during bid phase to review design details.

Engineering/Design

• Prepare one-line diagrams.
• Maintain discipline engineering documents for the project.
• Respond to RFI’s for the project and accurately review submittals.
• Solve installation problems with electrical systems, travel to the site to resolve issues.
• CAD proficient with working CAD drawings.
• Prepare CAD floor plans showing electrical device layouts, circuitry, fixtures, equipment, etc.
• Perform calculations for available fault current study; implement proper AIC ratings of equipment, coordination studies, and arc flash analysis.
• Prepare calculations for electrical loads and panel schedules.
• Thorough knowledge of NEC and other codes.
• Understand and correctly apply concepts of emergency and normal power systems.
• Understand and apply concepts of lighting, photometric, and lighting controls.
• Understand and apply concepts of voltage drop, conductor sizing, harmonics, etc.
• Edit electrical specifications.
• Layout fire alarm devices on floor plans.
• Develop equipment room sizes during Schematic Design and Design Development phases.
• Select and schedule equipment.
• Meet with vendors to determine specification requirements for application.
• Coordinate with other disciplines (MEP/FP, arch, struct, etc) for all electrical & lighting details.
• Manage and deliver revisions (ASI’s, etc).
• Understand circuit breaker coordination and application.
• Understand specific Electrical requirements for applications within the Market Sector.
• Understand and properly apply details relevant to projects.

Project Coordination

• Distribute project-related correspondence to project team members.
• Prepare project meeting minutes.
• Schedule in-house discipline meetings.
• Oversee deliverables to and from clients.
• Oversee and encourage coordination between disciplines.
• Provide discipline-specific manpower planning for projects.
• Provide continuous support for the Project Manager.

About Us

Our story
With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments. Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

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