Eng-Electrical - Project Engineer

Responsibilities

• Strategic Looks for ways to improve Electrical Engineering design and design processes.
• Looks for new trends in Electrical Engineering design and how to apply them to our projects.
• Project Management and Technical Improvement
• 10% time devoted to project management and technical improvement initiatives.
• Project management tasks shall include project manpower estimates, project communications, budget monitoring and inputs, organizing deliverables, and setting project standards for delivery.
• Development of typical details, specifications, and drawing standards, including the development of Revit standards in coordination with the BIM team.
• Keeping abreast of industry and technology changes and trends, and recommending changes in approach and services as appropriate.
• Improvement of analytic processes and documentation, common solutions, and critical solutions.
• Fosters a commitment to external and internal client service.
• Projects
• 90% time devoted to the engineering of projects, particularly large or complex projects.
• Responsibility for the project engineering of small to medium-sized projects (less than $80m in construction cost) from concept and schematic design through construction documents to construction and commissioning.
• Responsibility for the project engineering of segments of large (over $100m) projects, supporting senior staff.
• Provide design inputs and reviews of other engineer’s projects.
• Attend meetings with clients and promote positive client contact with current or prospective clients.
• Participate as a team member, contributing ideas and possible solutions, and leading on issues where appropriate.
• Perform site visit surveys to determine engineering strategies for renovation, and to document and evaluate existing systems.
• Visit project sites during construction for reviews of quality, progress, and compliance with specifications and standards.
• Project reviews at all stages of design.
• Responsibility for the quality and timely delivery of the projects to budget.
• Sets, monitors, and delivers to budgets.
• Ability to understand multi-disciplinary coordination issues.
• Ability to teach and mentor junior engineers and technicians.
• Business Development
• As needed, provide support to business development, including write-up of key aspects of projects and presentation of work at industry events, and prepare fee estimates and assumptions for Electrical Engineering on potential projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in engineering degree, Master’s degree preferred.
• Licensed PE. NCEES record allowing registration in any state preferred.
• Experience in delivering projects over $20m and up to $80m in construction value.
• At least 7 years of project engineering experience, from design development to opening, with one completed high profile project included in the mix.
• Experience in working in integrated teams.
• Experience in the design and delivery of LEED Silver or higher projects.
• Experience with potential project types in commercial, corporate, institutional and civic, justice, aviation, science & technology, and healthcare sectors.
• Experience with complex analysis tools for electrical design.
• Experience with architecturally significant buildings, controls and commissioning, central plants, multi- emergency generator systems, and mission critical buildings is a plus.

Qualifications

• Project Management
• Ability to engineer and deliver projects between $20m to $80m in size.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple disciplines across HOK's organization.
• Must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form, with an understanding of industry communication protocols.
• Set, monitor, and deliver to budgets.
• Strong project management skills.
• Able to understand multi-disciplinary coordination issues.
• Able to teach and mentor junior engineers and technicians.
• Technical
• Able to work creatively to reach solutions to complex problems.
• Proficiency with Revit preferred.
• Design of medium and low voltage systems.
• Design of electrical systems for complex buildings and campuses.
• Design of Fire Alarm and Life Safety systems for complex projects and complex controls strategies.