AutoCAD, Bidding, Budgeting, Commissioning, Construction, Construction Design, Construction Document Set, Cost Engineering, Cross-Functional, Customer Support/Service, Electrical Design, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Equipment Selection, Fire Alarm, Functional Testing, Government, Low Voltage (LV), Maintain Compliance, Maintenance - Electrical, Mentoring, Network Operations Center, Operational Support, Performance Testing, Proposal Writing, Quality Control, Requirements Management, Retail, Schematics, Technical/Engineering Design, Time Management, United States Citizen, Work From Home
Only US Citizen/GC Holder/Permanent Resident
Job Title: Senior Electrical Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA
Job Type: Full-Time | On-Site
Salary: $120K $150K plus Benefits (If your current compensation is higher, please let us know your salary expectations)
Hybrid Work Option: Eligible for an optional hybrid work-from-home schedule.
The Senior Electrical Engineer is a full-time, hybrid position based in our Richmond office. Responsibilities include developing power, lighting, fire alarm, and low-voltage system designs, preparing construction documents, performing engineering calculations, and providing technical oversight throughout the design process. The Senior Electrical Engineer works closely with multidisciplinary project teams, clients, architects, and contractors to deliver innovative, code-compliant, and cost-effective engineering solutions while mentoring junior staff and supporting projects from concept through construction.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform all aspects of electrical engineering design as a senior or lead engineer, including Conceptual Studies, Program Requirements, Design Analyses, Calculations, Equipment selection and layout, and System selection and layout.
- Meet with clients to prepare and/or validate proposed scope of work.
- Manage electrical or the electrical portion of projects, and working with assigned project managers, to meet client's budget, contract fees, goals, objectives, and deadlines.
- Coordinate and communicate all aspects of electrical design within multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ensuring compliance with quality control policies and procedures and providing QC reviews for other engineers and designers.
- Preparing accurate and complete electrical project programming, schematic designs, design development designs, and construction documents.
- Providing and supervising electrical support services during the bidding process, i.e., preparing addenda, amendments, open bids, tabulate bids, etc.
- Performing and supervising electrical construction phase services including representing the firm on-site, answering RFI's, reviewing shop drawings, preparing as-builts, etc.
- Preparing commissioning proposals (scope and fee), commissioning plans and reports.
- Conducting project reviews as part of commissioning.
- Preparing and witnessing Prefunctional Checks (PCs) and Functional Performance Tests (FPTs).
- Preparing Operation and Maintenance Support Information (OMSI) Manuals.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in the Electrical Engineering discipline
- 8+ years of relevant experience of design and coordination of electrical systems in the K-12, office, commercial, retail, data center, municipal and government markets
- Proficiency in the latest versions of AutoCAD and Autodesk Revit
- Professional Engineers license in the state of Virginia, or the ability to become licensed immediately
- LEED Accreditation preferred
- Ability to work with limited direction and be able to take direction from various departments and levels.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance (employee coverage)
- Dental and vision insurance
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Optional hybrid work-from-home schedule