# Senior Electrical Engineer (Renewables)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Houston, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $86,100 - $150,590
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Senior Renewable Energy Electrical Engineer for our Houston, TX office. This role involves providing high-level technical expertise in the design, engineering, and guidance for multi-site/phase due diligence, investigation, remediation, impact assessment, permitting, design, development, and construction of utility, industrial, and commercial scale renewable energy projects.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data relating to renewable energy balance of plant components, equipment specifications for procurement package development and pricing, IFR/IRC detailed design and review processes, and NEC/IEEE/NESC Standards/NERC regulations for design work.

- Coordinate, review, and approve electrical infrastructure design plans for smaller and less-complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.

- Apply high-level electrical engineering techniques and processes to identify improvements for various infrastructure project phases.

- Perform professional and more complex electrical engineering work relating to the design of single line, three line, wiring diagrams, general arrangement, schematics, cable schedules, cable ampacity, arc flash, grounding grid design, and lightning protection.

- Plan and incorporate future-ready techniques, concept development, operating strategies, and various design requirements with equipment sizing and cabling, AC/DC panel design, and conduit and trenching design strategies.

- Review electrical calculations for loads, equipment sizing, grounding touch and step potentials, short circuit study, protective device coordination, one-line diagram development, protective relaying, and substation switchyard layouts.

- Develop and review plans, specifications, and cost estimates, construction safety and phasing plans, and updating electrical infrastructure layout plans.

- Interface with cross-functional teams of engineers, planners, scientific, and construction professionals to execute project work.

- Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.

- Prepare comprehensive technical reports and presentations that explain research, findings, concepts, and recommendations.

- Maintain a high level of quality and responsiveness to client requirements.

- Provide guidance and training to entry-level engineers related to electrical modelling and simulations.

- Analyze, evaluate, and interpret data obtained during field investigations, offering input with developing action plans for moderate- to high-level risk mitigation activities.

- Interact with regulatory agencies, subcontractors, and clients in a confident and professional manner.

- Collaborate with professionals, other engineers, planners, and infrastructure authorities on Federal, State, regional, and locally funded improvement and development projects.

- Remain current in the latest electrical engineering techniques, standards, and practices.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering.

- 5+ years of relevant post-education experience as an electrical engineer providing design deliverables for capital projects in power generation, transmission, and distribution at a utility, industrial, or commercial scale.

- Ability and willingness to obtain a US licensed PE within a reasonable time period.

- Proficient with electrical engineering principles, practices, process, design/build, and the application to permitting and project work-related issues.

- Exposure and familiarity with principles of renewable energy system and distributed energy resources design.

- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure design.

- Demonstrates competence and comprehensive knowledge concerning adjacent disciplines such as electrical engineering, P&C, SCADA, and telecom.

- Experience with electrical infrastructure planning, design, and construction management.

- Well-defined specific knowledge of relevant engineering and electrical construction laws, codes, regulations, compliance practices, and record-keeping requirements.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage

- Retirement savings

- Paid sick leave

- Paid vacation

- Paid parental leave

- Paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings

**Compensation:**

- Expected Salary: $86,100 - $150,590

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Renewable Energy
- Infrastructure Design
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Experience managing large projects

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