Electrical Project Engineer - Healthcare

About the role

The Electrical Project Engineer – Healthcare delivers project-level electrical and low-voltage designs for hospitals, ambulatory care, behavioral health, and other complex institutional facilities across the Midwest. The role emphasizes power, lighting, life-safety, and low-voltage design, coordination with other disciplines, and support of project managers and engineering managers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as project electrical engineer on healthcare and institutional projects, handling daily design and coordination under the direction of an electrical manager or senior PM.
• Design normal and emergency power distribution systems (one-lines, panel schedules, feeders, branch circuits, equipment connections), including essential electrical systems for healthcare facilities (generators, ATS, critical branch distribution).
• Design lighting and lighting control systems, including layouts and photometric calculations, meeting code, energy, and user requirements.
• Design life-safety and low-voltage systems such as fire alarm, nurse call, structured cabling, and grounding/bonding in coordination with technology and security resources.
• Support power system studies (short-circuit, coordination, arc-flash, voltage drop) using appropriate tools under senior guidance.
• Produce coordinated drawings, specifications, and reports in Revit/BIM in collaboration with architectural, structural, mechanical, plumbing, and technology disciplines.
• Conduct field investigations and site observations to verify existing conditions and conformance.
• Apply NEC, NFPA 70, 72, 99, 101, 110, FGI Guidelines, and state/local regulations for healthcare facilities in Illinois, Missouri, and nearby states.
• Provide technical guidance and QA redlines to designers/junior engineers; support PMs with scope, level-of-effort, and schedule input; participate in client and internal coordination meetings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering; EIT required, PE or ability to obtain preferred.
• Typically, 8-12+ years of building electrical design experience, including healthcare or other mission-critical/institutional projects in an AEC/MEP consulting environment.
• Proven experience as a project-level electrical engineer responsible for design production and multi-disciplinary coordination.
• Strong working knowledge of NEC and relevant NFPA/FGI healthcare standards.
• Proficiency with Revit/BIM for electrical systems; experience with SKM, ETAP, or similar tools preferred.
• Experience designing normal and emergency power, lighting, life-safety, and low-voltage systems for healthcare or similarly regulated facilities.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Qualifications

Commensurate with experience.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

See full benefits description in the job listing.

Pay

$99,000 - $149,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity)

Schedule

Varies based on project needs.