# Lead Electrical Engineer (Buildings)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Irvine, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $125,600 - $167,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer for their Irvine, CA office to join the Property and Buildings Team. The successful candidate will provide high-level technical design and consulting for development and construction of electrical systems for infrastructure, building, and construction projects.

Responsibilities:

- Oversee complex new construction, renovation, and electrical infrastructure projects

- Review and approve electrical infrastructure design plans, ensuring data integrity and compliance with applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations

- Apply high-level electrical engineering techniques and processes for various project phases

- Plan and incorporate future-ready techniques, concept development, operating strategies, and various electrical design requirements

- Prepare and review electrical calculations for loads, equipment sizing, grounding touch and step potentials, short circuit study, overcurrent protective device coordination, one-line diagram development, and protective relaying

- Lead MEP engineering projects, including preparing and overseeing relevant project budgets, tracking hours and expenses, ensuring satisfactory performance, supervising subcontractors, task completion, cost and quantities of materials/equipment/labor, and technical calculations

- Develop and review plans, specifications, and cost estimates, and update electrical infrastructure layout plans that require coordination with owners, other disciplines, sub-consultants, and clients

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

- Provide guidance and leadership to project members with strict adherence to QA/QC

- Remain current in the latest electrical engineering techniques and practices

- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources, conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures

Requirements:

- 7-10 years of relevant post-education experience as an electrical engineer providing design deliverables for capital projects

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

- Extensive knowledge of infrastructure design

- Proficiency with Revit

- 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

- Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills

- Demonstrated high-level of self-leadership with attention to detail, multi-tasking, and prioritization of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment

- Works independently with minimal oversight and provides guidance and leadership to junior team or project members

- Highly proficient with technical writing, office automation, discipline-specific design software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools

- Well-developed critical thinking and problem-solving skills

- Demonstrated effectiveness at coordinating and assertively directing subcontractors and others

- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies

Benefits:

- Comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability

- Coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life

- Retirement savings

- Paid sick leave

- Paid vacation or other personal time

- Paid parental leave

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

Compensation:

- Expected Salary: $125,600 - $167,000

## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- infrastructure design
- Revit
- electrical infrastructure planning
- design and construction management

### Nice to have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
- Professional Engineer License
- LEED Certified
- PMP Certificate

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