Job Type
Full-time
Description
EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices across the country. Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. We are seeking an
Senior Electrical Project Engineer to join our
Irvine office. The Senior Electrical Project Engineer leverages extensive experience in the design of complex buildings to lead all phases of project design and construction. This role oversees the design and documentation of electrical, lighting, and low voltage systems, coordinating across disciplines, managing responsibilities across multiple complex projects, and ensuring adherence to design intent, codes, and quality standards. The Senior Project Engineer identifies potential risks or liability concerns in coordination with the Discipline Director and contributes to project planning efforts, including estimating hours for specific tasks and overall project scope. This position also provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff and project engineers.
Essential Functions:
This role provides expert leadership in:
- Documentation: Guiding the modeling and drawings used to accurately deliver projects, reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership
- Building Technology: Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design
- Project Delivery: Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget
- Codes: Ensuring project designs and construction documents fully comply with applicable codes
- Quality Standards: Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards, including participation in QA/QC reviews
- Sustainability: Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals
- Material Research: Selecting equipment and identifying appropriate applications that consider system performance and project requirements
- Construction Administration: Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements
- Calculations: Determining and applying calculation and analysis models to evaluate engineering conditions and guide project design decisions
- Cost Consciousness: Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
- Design Narratives: Communicating engineering design intent, technical decisions, and system impacts effectively to clients, consultants, and project teams
- Specification Writing: Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the system design
Demonstrates advanced skills in:
- Software: Understanding the software analysis to ensure accuracy
- Design Generation: Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project
- Planning: Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion
- Profitability: Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project, including management of discipline staff assignments, budgets, and workload across multiple projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering, or Bachelor of Architectural Engineering
- Registered PE in at least one state with suitable credentials for registration in other states
- Proficient in Bluebeam and Microsoft Suite
- Excels in the guidelines of preceding roles including Electrical Project Engineer
Benefits of Working at EwingColeGenerous paid time off, 401(k) plan with company match, tuition reimbursement, flexible/hybrid work options, paid parental leave, excellent insurance offerings including medical, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection and more.
EwingCole will not be accepting outside recruitment assistance on this position including from agencies with a written agreement in place. Any staffing/employment agency, person or entity that submits a resume to EwingCole does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of EwingCole. EwingCole will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting staffing/employment agency, person or entity.
Salary Description
$150,000 - $180,000
