Electrical Engineer, Development

About the role

The Electrical Engineer supports Orenda’s Principal Engineer and the Project Development team by keeping our design baseline sharp: enforcing standards, driving QA/QC at key design milestones, and closing technical loops across EOR packages, vendor interfaces, and field-driven clarifications. You’ll turn ambiguity into decision-grade inputs, drive traceable resolution back into active design sets, and — when patterns emerge — harden our design standards and equipment specs so issues don’t repeat.

Responsibilities

• Design Standards + Milestone QA/QC: Review EOR design packages at 30%/60%/90%/IFC against Orenda Site Design Specifications (single-lines, layouts, grounding/bonding, labeling, key interfaces). Issue crisp comment logs, run closure to zero, and prevent downstream rework.

• Constructability + Field Feedback Loop: Participate in constructability reviews (typically 60% and 90%). Capture recurring field issues and design clarifications and convert them into durable standards updates with the Principal Engineer.

• RFIs + Design-Change Triage: Own intake, triage, and coordination of technical RFIs and submittals that involve (or may trigger) a design change. Maintain an auditable RFI/comment log with timestamps, assumptions, and approvals; coordinate responses with the EOR + Principal Engineer for fast, clean closure.

• Vendor Clarifications + Submittal Reviews: Sanity-check vendor submittals (switchgear, transformers, protection/controls, metering CT/PT, communications) for interface completeness and spec alignment. Run clarification cycles to closure and keep every decision traceable to the design baseline.

• Interface Management: Coordinate electrical interfaces across BESS/PCS/MV gear, metering, protection, SCADA/EMS, and fire/life safety — surface integration risk early, before it becomes field pain.

• Decision Packages + Document Control: Produce decision-grade redlines/memos. Maintain clean baselines, revision history, and closure evidence so scope doesn’t change silently.

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Keep Development PMs, Preconstruction, Procurement, and Construction aligned to schedule + readiness needs; escalate crisply with issue statement, impact, options, and a recommendation.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (preferred) or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience: 5+ years in electrical engineering supporting complex projects (energy, utility, industrial, EPC, or comparable).

• Electrical codes: Working knowledge of applicable electrical codes and standards (e.g., NEC and relevant local/amendment requirements) and ability to apply them across design development, permitting packages, and field-driven clarifications.

• Electrical equipment fluency: Comfortable reviewing MV electrical equipment and related interfaces (protection/controls, metering CT/PT, grounding/bonding, communications, commissioning support) and spotting scope/interface risk early.

• RFI discipline: Proven ability to run structured RFI / technical clarification cycles (comment logs, turnaround targets, closure tracking) with auditable traceability of assumptions and approvals.

• Rigor + ownership: Low tolerance for ambiguous scope, undocumented commitments, or drifting baselines; uses logs, timestamps, and explicit assumptions to keep teams aligned.

• Cross-functional execution: Comfortable operating across Construction, Pre-construction, Procurement, Finance, and Legal without overstepping authority.

• Communication: Strong writing and exec-ready communication skills (clear issue statements, options, and recommendations).

• Tools: Comfortable adopting engineering/procurement workflows in systems like Kahua, Procore, Bluebeam/PlanGrid, BIM 360, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus)

• BESS / PCS / protection schemes experience (battery OEM, PCS, switchgear/protection, communications).

• Cross-functional design experience coordinating with civil, structural, and architectural disciplines.

• NYC / dense-urban delivery constraints experience (tight delivery windows, rigging constraints, AHJ/utility interface).

• Experience working with EORs and driving comment-resolution cycles on accelerated schedules.

Skills and Attributes

• Extremely organized, process-oriented, and disciplined about document control.

• Low tolerance for ambiguous scope, un-owned technical risk, or undocumented commitments.

• Proactive risk-management mindset (surfaces issues early with clear options and recommended mitigations).

• Comfortable driving clarity across internal teams and external consultants/vendors without overstepping authority boundaries.

Work Environment

This is a full-time, in-office position requiring work from our headquarters (Brooklyn, NY) five days a week, with regular travel to project sites within the NYC area.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) plan, with 3% Employer Match

• LifeTime Fitness corporate membership

• Monthly commuter stipend

• Learning and education stipend

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy

Equal Opportunity Employer

Orenda Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair and inclusive hiring and employment practices in accordance with federal, New York State, and New York City law. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment—including hiring, promotion, compensation, or termination—on the basis of any protected characteristic, including race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.