Lead Electrical Engineer (AEC Industry)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform engineering tasks individually and with a team of other designers and engineers to produce technical deliverables.
• Comprehend design principals within discipline and possess a basic understanding of other MEP discipline principals.
• Create, organize and plot construction document deliverables for issuance to the field.
• Read and understand construction documents including site plans, floor plans, sections, details and schedules.
• Apply engineering principals for multiple project types and clients from inception to closeout.
• Review submittals and answer questions from the field.
• Competently communicate with clients verbally and in written form.
• Perform detailed surveys.
• Actively participate in company training.
• Actively learn and grow technical knowledge and soft skills.
• Competently lead, supervise, and effectively delegate to individuals or project teams of designers or engineers.
• Take on responsibility and ownership the work of others who report to them.
• Actively teach and mentor others.
• Competently communicate with clients as the lead for their discipline on a project.
• Take on leadership roles within the company and their department.
• Possess a higher level of Revit proficiency including family modifications, schedule manipulation, parameter manipulation, creating software development plans, etc.
• Aid in the preparation of time and effort estimates for project proformas.
• Engineer the following systems: power distribution, lighting, lighting controls, equipment connections, fire alarm, grounding, emergency generator systems, and life safety systems.
• Perform the following calculations: load diversification, fault current and voltage drop.
• Understand and apply relevant aspects of building, electrical and energy codes.
• Perform branch circuiting and panel schedule calculations.
• Perform device layouts for power, lighting and fire alarm systems.
• Cookordinate scope and connections with other trades.
• Perform lighting calculations and manipulate to obtain a required light level.
• Perform lighting energy compliance calculations and document results.
• Edit master specifications to be job specific.
• Engineer more complex systems to a higher level of detail.
• Engineer the following systems: lightning protection, surge protective devices (SPDs), uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and medium voltage distribution.
• Perform advanced calculations such as load shedding, derating, custom feeder sizing, etc.
• Possess a detailed understanding of applicable electrical codes and standards including the National Electrical Code (NEC), building codes, NFPA standards, etc.
• Research and prepare feasibility studies, life cycle analysis and other similar reports.
• Make recommendations and design changes based on selective coordination studies.
• Edit master specifications to be job specific, infilling new sections where required.
• Design detailed lighting control schemes including daylight controls, networked systems, digital controls, etc. in compliance with energy code requirements.
• Perform complex electrical distribution analysis that may include custom feeder sizing, multiple service configurations, site utility layouts, etc.
• Design detailed lighting control schemes including switching, dimming, occupancy sensors, etc. in compliance with energy code requirements.
• Cookordinate with local utilities and integrate requirements into design.
• Review deliverables and find errors in layout or calculations.
• Read and understand selective coordination studies.
• Competently communicates with clients on large, complex projects as the lead for engineering.
• Review and signoff on the quality, code compliance and completeness of other’s work.
• Review and mitigate the most complex of change orders and confrontational owner/architect meetings.
• Write technical reports and articles that may be published.
• Speak publicly at conferences and local user groups.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) from an accredited four-year university or equivalent experience required.
• Basic computing skills and proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Proficiency in Revit preferred.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license preferred.
• LEED AP preferred.
• 5+ years working in a MEP engineering consulting firm on multiple building types.
• Construction field experience preferred.