Senior Electrical Engineer

Spectratech - Knoxville, TN

Full-time - Senior

Knoxville, TN

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

As a Senior Electrical Engineer at Spectra Tech, Inc., you will play a pivotal role in overseeing and executing electrical engineering projects from conception to completion. Your responsibilities will include determining the scope, budget, and schedule for each task, ensuring that all engineering work is planned, scheduled, and conducted efficiently. You will prepare engineering reports, plans, and specifications for a variety of projects, ensuring that all documentation meets the required standards and specifications. Additionally, you will participate in contract bidding and administration, providing your expertise to support the selection of contractors and the management of contracts throughout the project lifecycle. In this role, you will also be responsible for supporting and observing the design and ongoing progress of projects, maintaining effective communication and interaction with project team members, client representatives, review agencies, and other stakeholders as appropriate. Your leadership skills will be essential as you assign electrical design job functions to designated engineers and designers, supervising their efforts to ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. Your ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a high level of quality and compliance with national safety electrical codes and standards will be critical to your success in this position.

Responsibilities

• Determines scope, budget and schedule for each task.
• Performs design and/or assigns tasks to team members and monitors for conformance to plan.
• Plan, schedule, conduct or coordinate electrical engineering work.
• Prepare engineering reports, plans and specifications for a variety of projects.
• Prepare and review plans and technical specifications, contract documents, and estimates.
• Participate in contract bidding and administration.
• Support and observe the design and ongoing progress of a project.
• Communicate and interact with project team members, client representatives, review agencies and others as appropriate to project.
• Provide leadership and assign electrical design job functions to designated engineers and designers and supervise their efforts in completing the project on time and within budget.

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 10 years' of electrical design experience serving manufacturing and industrial clients
• P.E. license with education experience necessary to obtain licensure in other states by reciprocity
• Knowledge of large power transformers, power generation, transmission, operation and maintenance of power system distribution systems (110vac to 138kvac), harmonic analysis, cable and buss capacity analysis, and load flow analysis is required.
• Experience in electrical design for facility and infrastructure projects, including design of power, lighting, grounding and lightning protection, alarm systems, control systems for building equipment, communications, access controls and security systems.
• Strong working knowledge of national safety electrical codes and standards
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong team player that effectively coordinates with other team members throughout design.
• Communicates effectively, skilled in both verbal and written communication, with direct client contact.

Nice-to-haves

• Previous design and detailing experience using REVIT and AutoCAD is preferred
• Experience with lighting calculation software such as AGI-32, ElumTools and/or Visual.
• Experience with power system analysis software such as SKM Powertools or ETAP is preferred.
• LEED accreditation is preferred.