Principal Electrical Engineer
About the role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Arcadis is looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer with experience in designing electrical power systems for the municipal water/wastewater industry to join our team in either Florida, Virginia, Maryland, or Washington, DC. As a Principal Electrical Engineer, you will utilize your technical capabilities to collaborate with our experienced team of professionals, providing technical and design consulting services with a focus on electrical power distribution, motor controls, lighting, and grounding design to support projects for the South Region of our Resilience Water Business. In addition to managing tasks, manage team work, overseeing the work of junior engineering professionals, and being an industry leader supporting the growth of our municipal water / wastewater practice.
Responsibilities
- Electrical design and coordination of various projects with an emphasis on medium and low voltage power distribution, motor controls, lighting, and grounding for water/wastewater projects.
- Provide leadership, technical knowledge, and guidance to electrical staff through direct line management, quality control reviews of work products, and mentorship.
- Manage projects/tasks budgets and delivery schedules for each assignment.
- Balance team workload for multiple assignments to complete projects on time and on budget.
- Support business development and, in coordination with project managers, prepare scopes, schedules, and budget for new projects.
- Work in multi-discipline teams, coordinating with Control Systems and Process Mechanical groups among others.
- Establish design criteria, perform design calculations, develop one-line diagrams, control schematics, plans and specifications (serve as Engineer of Record).
- Conduct field inspections, condition assessments, and oversee projects in construction including identifying deviations from design and adequate completion of designed work.
- Perform system analysis using ETAP, SKM Power Tools or other power systems analysis software.
- At a minimum, provide engineering responsibility for staff using these software packages to publish a power systems study with arc flash hazard analysis.
- Actively collaborate with our practice leadership, participate in regional / national conferences, and support technical knowledge advancement and sharing.
- Some travel up to 25% will be