Sr Electrical | Instrumentation Designer

About the role

The ECI Group has an immediate need for a contract Senior Instrumentation / Electrical Designer in their Baton Rouge office to support ongoing electrical instrumentation and control designs for their petrochemical business lines.

Responsibilities

• Manages necessary resources for execution scattered across multiple remote sites with different time zones.
• Lead a team of designers and drafters on the project.
• Generates design and detail drawings including schematics, wiring, installation details, plans/sections.
• Interprets area classification drawings and develop area classification details.
• Interacts with Clients to convey project design and identify scope changes that will affect project schedule or client budgets.
• Interacts with the lead engineer on the project and other departments and suppliers to obtain pertinent information.
• Reviews project/discipline deliverables for compliance with industry accepted design principles, company standards and customer contract specifications.
• Attend regular project update meetings with the lead engineer and the client.

Qualifications

• 10+ years design experience
• Associate Degree in a technical discipline preferred
• AutoCAD Certificate or minimum of 5 years proven AutoCAD experience
• Proficient in basic computer functions required to perform AutoCAD 2-D, AutoCAD 3-D, Raster, and MicroStation a plus.
• Proficient in standard drafting techniques and in field investigations and measurements
• Knowledge of Codes and Standards
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
• TWIC card requirement

Skills

• Frequent use of up-close vision, distance vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus
• Frequent standing, walking, sitting, reaching with hands and arms, climbing stairs and ladders, balancing, stooping or kneeling, talking and hearing, and using fingers and hands to feel objects, tools or controls
• Extended overnight travel to another client location/facility or the home office may be necessary
• Conditions will vary at each location, but the conditions listed above will generally apply.