Senior Electrical Engineer - Power Generation

About the role

Join a company that empowers you to grow and explore new possibilities. At Black & Veatch, you are part of a team that is dedicated to solving humanity's biggest challenges in sustainable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Function as project lead and technical expert, and may have management and/or administrative responsibilities on assigned Conventional Power Generation Projects and Teams.
• Develop electrical drawing deliverables including: one line and three line diagrams, electrical motor schematics, breaker control schematics and wiring diagrams, power cable sizing and cable schedules, complex engineering calculations such as: load flow, short circuit, motor starting (ETAP or SKM), arc flash analysis (ETAP or SKM), protective relay settings, battery and charger sizing.
• Create man hour budgets and schedule for projects and proposals.
• Attend on-site meetings, investigate existing conditions, interface with clients and provide support during construction.
• Extensively use Microsoft Office business systems such as ProjectWise, electrical engineering software such as ETAP, and Computer Aided Drafting Tools such as AutoCAD to view and manipulate engineering drawing files.

Requirements

• Proactively provides guidance and direction on department design guides, standards, systems, applicable engineering codes and B&Veatch policies.
• Applies knowledge and ensures compliance with B&Veatch quality program. Establishes related processes, and promotes a culture that is conducive to quality.
• Prepares a variety of complex engineering deliverables for multiple or mega projects. Performs complex research and develops recommendations for equipment and/or materials selection. Oversees collection, assimilation, and management of data for engineering work.
• Prepares complex engineering calculations following standard methods and principles. Manages assigned budget, schedule, and quality requirements. Develops and applies advanced engineering solutions to complex problems. Responsible for ensuring project teams delegate appropriate tasks to lower level team members to develop depth of project execution staff. Reviews lower level engineering work or assignments.
• Actively coordinates with all other internal/external team members on complex projects. Typically responsible for defining project schedules for single discipline or may have responsibility for multiple disciplines.
• Responsible for determining identification of key client interests and drivers on projects. Communicates client interests and drivers to project team members and develops approaches to accommodate these concerns in the performance of the work on complex projects.
• Serves as the technical specialist in a broad area of specialization, or in a narrow but specialized field. Develops and applies advanced engineering concepts and approaches to unique engineering problems. Typically supports multiple projects on very complex technical challenges. Typical roles include being recognized as an industry expert, participating in professional societies by presenting papers, acting as a section lead for a large or complex specialty area, an engineering consultant for larger scale projects. May support the chief engineers or top engineering management, and is accountable for discipline-specific engineering processes.
• Typically oversees performance management, career planning, recognition, learning and development, and corrective actions. May participate in compensation management, succession planning, disciplinary actions, employee relations and workforce planning. Actively mentors lower level and mid level professionals and identifies successors to train in the specifics of their role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing or equivalent experience in engineering work.
• Minimum of 11 years related work experience.
• Active engineering registration or licensure to support engineer of record (EOR) requirements for BV projects in applicable countries, and supports where necessary (United States PE License).