Electrical Engineer 1

Title: Electrical Engineer 1
Location: Vancouver, WA; Salem, OR; Spokane, WA; TriCities, WA; Eugene, OR, or Olympia/Tacoma/Seattle, WA (On-Site)
Duration: 12-month Contract (with possible extensions up to 5 years)
Pay Range: $41.43 - $47.24 per hour

This function provides professional engineering expertise in assisting project manager and other engineering personnel in implementing projects, supporting field maintenance crews and other related engineering activities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Confer with engineers, internal customers, and others to discuss existing or potential engineering projects
• Plan/implement research methodology and procedures to apply principles of electrical theory to engineering projects.
• Prepare specifications for purchase of materials and equipment.
• Design, implement, maintain, and improve electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems.
• Operate computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.
• Create electrical drawings, reports and calculations to support the engineering solutions for electrical systems.
• Facilitate and coordinate construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, or testing activities to verify compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
• Perform detailed calculations to compute and establish construction, and installation standards and specifications.
• Inspect completed installations and observe operations to verify conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards.
• Facilitates significant work components within large projects.
• May act as local project manager over projects, coordinating multi-skilled, multi-discipline work groups.
• Writes/reviews written work plans/functional tests.
• Performs troubleshooting and provides technical support to craft/customer personnel.
• Attends project scoping meetings or design reviews, recommends changes to specification diagrams based on technical and operational issues.
• May provide field man-hour estimates and develop outage/transition plans to facilitate project implementation. Works with design staff during engineering phase to understand design philosophy and provide field information/valid requirements.
• Applies diversified knowledge of engineering principles/practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields.

Position Requirements:
Education & Corresponding Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (from an ABET* accredited school) is required.
  • Candidates 3 months from graduation will be considered.

Note: *ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology).

• 6 months of experience and knowledge of electrical engineering concepts, principles, and practices applicable to components and facilities found on a regional transmission system is required.

Required Technical Skills & Experience

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite products, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Training or experience in Power Systems Engineering sufficient to allow knowledge development of design standards through on-the-job training.

o The intent is for the Engineer to review and correct Controls, RAS and Metering, and Protective Relay Design.

• Demonstrated ability to read and understand electrical prints: one-lines, wiring diagrams, and schematics to determine how the protection and control systems operate .

Everest Consultants offers the following benefits for this position: medical, dental, & vision insurance, short-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k)-retirement plan, and a referral bonus program, paid sick/vacation/holidays, and a health and welfare fringe benefit.

Everest Consultants is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal civil rights laws. #IND