Senior Principal Electrical Physical Designer

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Job Summary

Provide electrical design and drafting services for various projects, ensuring compliance with client, company, and industry standards. Oversee project execution and deliverables, working within a team environment with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Supervise discipline team by directing project execution activities and preparing discipline-specific deliverables for one large or several smaller projects.
• Work within a team environment with minimal supervision, adhering to client, company, and industry standards.
• Perform moderately to difficult drafting assignments, requiring knowledge of established drafting techniques, standards, practices, and software.
• Oversee the preparation of design and detail drawings from sketches, plans, or other design/specification data.
• Take responsibility for the design and drafting of HV and LV electrical installations.
• Direct the work of junior designers and coordinate work-sharing activities to ensure drawings meet client requirements and project specifications.
• Participate in design reviews with clients, advising on technical design, drafting issues, and compliance requirements.
• Perform point-to-point reviews on complete electrical design packages.
• Demonstrate a proven track record of completing work scope within time and budget constraints.
• Develop layouts, plans, sections, elevations, and details for facilities and equipment from reference drawings or catalogs, making routine calculations.
• Perform dimensional and routine calculations required for the preparation of drawings, recording, and filing electrical discipline documents.
• Travel to job sites to perform panel audits and walkdown raceway routing.
• Ensure quality assurance by working within the provisions and guidelines of the Quality Assurance system relevant to the project.

Technical and Industry Experience

• Extensive experience in electrical design.
• Proficiency with Smartplant Electrical (SPEL), Smartplant Instrumentation (SPI), AutoCAD, and MicroStation design software packages. Experience with AVEVA E3D is a plus.
• Experience with Smart Plant 3D and participation in 3D model reviews.
• Specialization in detailed drawings for lighting, small power and earthing systems, HV/LV single line diagrams, wiring and control schematic diagrams, AC/DC distribution panels, process area electrical equipment layouts, substation and switchyard layouts, cable tray, above-grade and underground cable layouts, ductbank sizing and layouts, installation details, grounding plans, and lightning layouts.
• Cable schedules, cable pulling calculations, cable tray sizing calculations, cable selection & sizing calculations.
• Lighting calculations using software such as AGI32.

Education – Qualifications, Accreditation, Training

• Required: A degree or 2-3 year technical diploma with discipline-specific training.
• Preferred: An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in electrical design and drafting.