Senior Electrical Engineer

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, or Greenville, South Carolina. As an Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electrical design work across water and wastewater projects while helping define technical direction, deliver high-quality results, and support technical growth in the team. This role is intended for the firm’s most complex and highest-risk electrical work.

Primary Responsibilities:

Provide firm-level technical leadership for electrical design and electrical systems for water and wastewater systems including commissioning, resilience, and risk decisions

Assist in defining technical direction for the Industrial Power Team, including standards, design frameworks, design standards, specification strategy, review expectations, and ensure accountability

Guide Electrical design, integration, commissioning, sequencing, startup, and workload approaches for pump station, water and wastewater projects

Coach and mentor junior electrical staff

Advise project managers, team leaders, client-service leaders, and executive leadership on technical strategy, risk mitigation, staffing approach, fee preparation, and recovery actions

Serve as a senior advisor to internal and external clients, owners, project teams, and firm leadership on complex technical issues, disputes, claims support, and innovation initiatives

Provide QA/QC for Electrical deliverables, technical reviews, standards details, and standard specifications

Provide root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned

Lead coordination across the Electrical group, process, electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, and operations on major projects

Represent the firm externally through industry leadership, committees, technical guidance, publications, presentations, and client forums

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, architectural engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline relevant to Electrical Power design from an ABET-accredited program

Active Professional Engineer license (P.E.)6+ years of relevant experience in Electrical Power for Water and Wastewater Systems, knowledge of SCADA, instrumentation design, or related technical design work is a plus.

Recognized technical authority with significant impact on standards, quality, innovation, risk controls, and complex Electrical design for water and wastewater systems

Advanced knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, electrical systems for water and wastewater systems,  commissioning, and construction documentation

Experience developing complex electrical systems from conceptional to final including duct bank routing and layouts, control wiring diagrams, one-line diagram, and construction costs

Experience establishing QA/QC expectations, technical review practices, standards application, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and quality improvement

Executive-level communication skills with clients, leadership, project teams, contractors, vendors, and interdisciplinary stakeholders

Working knowledge of standards such as NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, UL 508A, NEMA MG-1, IEEE 519, NFPA 820

PreferredPE licensure in multiple jurisdictions served by the firm Experience serving as responsible licensed engineer or engineer of record for critical or high-risk I&C scope

Experience establishing, standards, innovation, specification strategy, QA/QC systems, risk controls, training, and delivery frameworks

Leadership in the electrical industry, presentations for conferences/seminars or white papers, member of a professional committee, or electrical standards committee

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