# Senior Electrical Engineer

**Company**: WSP USA
**Location**: New York, NY, US
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $118,000 - $175,230
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP USA is seeking a highly energetic, self-motivated, and goal-oriented Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Northeast Transportation and Infrastructure Engineering Team and work out of our New York, NY office.

You will work on high-quality, high-profile, national and international projects, actively participating in the full project cycle from design to final construction close-out.

**Responsibilities**

- Work within multi-discipline project teams to develop drawings and specification documents for issuance to architects, contractors, and building owners.

- Lead electrical design for transportation-related facilities, including transit stations, tunnels, and underground structures, roadway and highway facilities, tunnel and station ventilation systems, traction power interfaces, utility power, and emergency power systems.

- Design and coordinate electrical systems such as power distribution, lighting and lighting controls, grounding and bonding systems, fire alarm and life-safety systems, low-voltage systems.

- Coordinate design activities with other multi-discipline project team members.

- Plan and incorporate various design requirements with equipment sizing and cabling, AC/DC panel design, and conduit design strategies.

- Prepare and/or review electrical calculations for loads, voltage drop, equipment sizing, grounding touch and step potentials, short circuit study, protective device coordination, arc flash analysis, one-line diagram development, protective relaying, and lighting calculations.

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

- Perform Construction Phase Services, including reviewing RFI’s, shop drawings, submittals, field visits, and coordination with contractors.

- Participate in client meetings, design reviews, and technical workshops internally and externally with transportation agencies.

- Mentor junior engineers and designers and contribute to technical quality control.

- Remain current in latest electrical engineering techniques and practices.

**Requirements**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.

- 7 to 10 years of relevant post education experience as an electrical engineer providing design deliverables for capital projects in building facilities and/or transportation.

- Professional Engineer (PE) license, highly preferred.

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

- 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.

- 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, 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**

- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.

- 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: $118,000 - $175,230

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- design/build
- permitting
- project work-related issues
- electrical infrastructure planning
- construction management
- technical writing
- office automation
- discipline-specific design software
- spreadsheets
- tools

### Nice to have
- NY Professional Engineer License
- tunnel ventilation power systems
- emergency operating modes
- Public Agencies
- Water / Wastewater Treatment
- Aviation facilities
- sustainable infrastructure
- resiliency-focused design

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