Senior Electrical Engineer
- San Francisco
Why join us?
We are hiring! AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our San Francisco, CA office.
About Us
AtkinsRéalis is one of the world’s most respected design, engineering, and project management consultancies. AtkinsRéalis has been providing infrastructure planning, engineering, construction, environmental consulting, urban planning, architecture, and program management services to public and private clients across the United States for more than 50 years. AtkinsRéalis has the depth and breadth of expertise to respond to the most technically challenging and time-critical infrastructure projects and the urgent transition to a low-carbon economy.
How will you contribute to the team?
As an Electrical Project Engineer your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Be consulted for any major construction project related to facilities power systems.
- Assess the feasibility of new projects.
- Develop more detailed scope through field walks and collaboration with facilities operations partners and project engineers from other disciplines.
- Serve as the Owner's representative to provide technical guidance and issue resolution during detailed design and construction.
- Manage the performance of the Integrators Architectural and Engineering/Owners design.
- Consultant vendor in their discipline.
- Interface and coordinate with contract design, construction, scheduling, and estimating resources.
- Interface with facilities staff and project managers to enable facility design efforts for their area of expertise.
- Define design criteria, lead scope definition and justification, develop design concepts, and oversee completion of positioning, programming, and detailed design.
- Work with estimators to ensure costs are captured and project budgets are met.
- Improve standards and drive innovative solutions.
- Collaborate and share learnings with their counterparts at other sites across the globe.
- Definition of design criteria, scope definition and justification, development of design concepts, completion of positioning, programming, and detailed design, influencing design standards, construction specifications, and operations requirements.
- It will also include development of project budgets, schedules, and safety requirements and performing conceptual engineering analysis for multiple scenarios that can include high level schedule and/or budget development to help customers and stakeholders make critical business decisions based on time and cost constraints. Proficiency with reading and interpreting construction contract documents is a must have.
What will you contribute?
You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
Minimum Qualifications:
Candidate must have at least one of the following:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field with 4+ years of experience on design and construction of low and medium voltage electrical power systems.
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related field with 3+ years of experience on design and construction of low and medium voltage electrical power systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Focus on industrial, semiconductor, and cleanroom projects.
- 3+years of experience leading a team.
- 3+ years of experience with electrical systems such as medium voltage, low voltage, emergency power systems, critical (UPS) power systems, lighting systems, and heat trace systems.
- Proficiency with reading and interpreting construction contract documents.
- Familiarity with 1-line diagrams and BIM (3D modeling).
- 3+ years of experience managing project change control.
- 3+ years of experience with construction, start-up, and commissioning/turnover of facilities systems.
- 3+ years of experience with building and fire codes and hazardous occupancies is preferred.
- Familiar with ATEX and EPD requirements.
- Familiarity with power modeling databases such as EasyPower or SKM is preferred.
- Professional Engineer status.
The successful candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:
- Written, visual and verbal communication skills- especially in communicating technical issues.
- Willingness to collaborate across engineering disciplines, organizations, and geographic boundaries.
- Team and quality-oriented skills.
- Technical skills in electrical engineering.
- Skills to lead and provide direction to technical teams.
- Value for safety and a safe project environment.
- Technical writing skills (e.g. specifications).
What we offer at AtkinsRéalis:
AtkinsRéalis realizes that health, mental and financial wellbeing, are all equally needed to achieve balance in life. We are pleased to offer a robust rewards package that help our employees have peace of mind in and outside of work.
Our benefit offerings address all of the areas that are part of living a healthy life. We recognize that what is important to people, continues to change. Some of our other benefits to ensure our employees feel supported, include continuing to offer health and dental coverage and a full list below. Our culture is one of providing support and training for our employees to thrive. We offer learning and development programs, training, career pathing opportunities, and a tuition reimbursement plan. At AtkinsRéalis, you will enjoy a robust rewards package which includes:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible work schedules
- Group Insurance
- PTO plus two Floating Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave (including maternity and paternity)
- Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- An inclusive culture of Employee Resources Groups centered around women, African-Americans, Hispanics, LGBTQ+, Neurodiversity and Emerging Professionals.
- A Foundation that is employee-funded with a 2-to-1 match from the company providing STEAM education for minorities from K-12 to college.
If this sounds like you and you would like to expand your career with us, apply today!
AtkinsRéalis is an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. EOE/Minorities/Females/Veteran/Disability.
Please review AtkinsRéalis Equal Opportunity Statement here:
https://careers.atkinsrealis.com/equal-opportunities-statement
Expected compensation range is between $101,000 - $169,000 annually depending on skills, experience, and geographical location
AtkinsRéalis cares about your privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy. Please consult our Privacy Notice on our Careers site to know more about how we collect, use and transfer your Personal Data.
By submitting your personal information to AtkinsRéalis, you confirm that you have read and accept our Privacy Notice.
Upon acceptance of an offer, all candidates must go through a drug screen test and background check. AtkinsRéalis is a federal contractor which mandates a satisfactory background screening report and drug test. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the following laws if applicable, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. This position is not available for individuals living or working in New York City.
AtkinsRéalis believes that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to the following job duties: accessing company property, information, assets, and products; accessing confidential information, and partnering and regularly working with or supervising other AtkinsRéalis employees and interacting with AtkinsRéalis clients including government property or ports.
Note to staffing and direct hire agencies:
In the event a recruiter or agency who is not on our preferred supplier list submits a resume/candidate to anyone in the company, AtkinsRéalis family of companies, we explicitly reserve the right to recruit and hire the candidate(s) at our discretion and without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. https://careers.atkinsrealis.com/recruitment-agencies
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