Field Electrical Engineer

About the role

As our Field Electrical Engineer, you will serve as an owner’s representative providing field inspections, construction quality assurance, oversight of electrical testing and commissioning activities at multiple sites during various phases of construction. Tasks include completion of checklists, adherence to established processes, identification of code compliance issues and common deficiencies, escalation of energization blockers and documenting as punch list items. Electrical systems are varied but include commercial electric vehicle charging infrastructure and commercial facility power upgrades. You will actively participate in internal weekly program syncs and work closely with the Project Managers to ensure necessary field documentation and checklists are completed. During weekly syncs all team members proactively participate to ensure client satisfaction and identify program efficiencies, review lessons learned and align on upcoming schedule for the week. The successful candidate will work virtually when not travelling to project sites.

Responsibilities

• Convey overall project status to clients by means of discussions, presentations, and project reports.
• Manage assigned site schedule, travel, communication with Client and onsite representatives and project budgets.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholder groups while onsite.
• Responsible for the effective management of own time and effort.
• Frequent travel within the United States to attend site walks and Owners Rep onsite services at commercial customer sites (Approximately 50-75% travel).
• Inspect, oversee NETA vendor testing, and onsite verification of installed low, medium (480 Volt) and potentially high voltage electrical systems.
• Assess power transformer testing results - Doble, TTR, Insulation Resistance, etc.
• Oversee NETA vendor testing of both electro-mechanical and solid-state relays.
• Verify acceptable cable testing results provided by NETA vendor - Tan Delta, Power Factor, VLF, DC Hipot.
• Identify and create punch list of deficiencies observed while onsite.
• Oversee onsite activities to ensure compliance with Client processes and procedures.
• Automatic transfer switch troubleshooting oversight.
• Low, Medium and High voltage switchgear and circuit breaker experience.
• Relay calibration and power metering knowledge.
• Able to attend customer sites in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related technical field.
• 5+ years of field electrical maintenance experience within engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of commercial projects or similar.
• Ability to identify onsite deficiencies and energization blockers.
• Can recommend resolution and identify root cause.
• Experience working with NETA qualified testing vendors, ability to assess pass/f