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