Junior Field Electrical & Instrumentation Designer

About the role

This role focuses on supporting brownfield surface facilities retrofits, expansions, and debottlenecking projects in the Electrical & Instrumentation discipline. Applicants must be authorized to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood.

Responsibilities

• Produce facility designs and layouts with knowledge of structural, mechanical, controls, and electrical equipment systems
• Understand codes applicable to equipment and construction (NEC, IEC, ASME, AISC, AWS, OSHA, NFPA, local codes, MCBU standards, and Chevron Engineering Standards)
• Perform design tasks for purchasing and construction level drawings with limited supervision
• Create reliable CAD models with precision, including assemblies, exploded view diagrams, and layouts with BOMs
• Develop and improve department practices/standards
• Review scope documents and specifications to ensure design meets SOW expectations, as well as Wood and our client's requirements
• Execute designs on challenging projects
• Conduct design reviews and travel to client job sites as required
• Develop working drawings from equipment specifications and detailed drawings
• Create drawings involving plans, layouts, calculations, and bills of material
• Conduct layouts, design, and checking work from basic data supplied
• Identify cost-effective solutions to design problems
• Assist in bid evaluations
• Design and construct models, prototypes, processes, or equipment
• Prepare estimates of time, quantities, materials, and labor required for testing, installation, manufacture, design, or construction
• Generate bill of materials from finished designs
• Affirm quality in design and technical accuracy in drawings and material quantities
• Plan assigned work effectively and liaise with the project team and line manager
• Conduct site visits/surveys and provide inputs to site visit reports

Qualifications

• Expected 2 - 7 years of related engineering design experience in electrical and instrumentation design (including field experience)
• Typically, 2+ years of relevant design experience in oil and gas, industrial construction, or power generation industries