Senior Electrical Designer - San Diego, CA

Your Opportunity

Stantec is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer an experienced commercial construction electrical professional who wants to support a growing San Diego Buildings practice building, trusted client relationships, mentoring teams, and delivering technically excellent projects that improve experiences of building occupants.

As an experienced electrical design professional, you will be a trusted technical resource within Stantec’s Buildings Engineers practice. You will organize electrical project work, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, support clients through regulatory requirements, and contribute to Stantec’s Buildings Engineering presence in Southern California.

You will balance hands‑on project delivery with client support, mentorship, and technical stewardship, helping teams execute consistently and apply established practice standards and delivery methods.

• Support business development efforts by contributing technical input to pursuits aligned with the studio, sector, and firm strategy.
• Serve as a support to client‑facing team members, helping clients navigate technical, regulatory, and operational challenges.
• Partner with Principals and marketing teams on proposals, interviews, and client pursuits, contributing technical insight and market knowledge.
• Participate in industry events, conferences, presentations, and professional organizations as appropriate.
• Support client development and project opportunities in collaboration with Regional and Business Center leadership.
• Assist in nurturing existing client relationships and identify opportunities for future work through strong communication and market awareness.

• Organize and deliver electrical engineering work for assigned projects—from planning through construction—with accountability for task quality, schedule, budget awareness, and client satisfaction.
• Lead electrical design for commercial building facilities, including power, lighting, and fire alarm systems, ensuring compliance with California Electrical/Energy/Green codes, and other California building codes.
• Assist in defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders, including contractors, developers, owners, regulatory bodies, and internal teams.
• Develop task‑level work plans, resource needs, and budgets; track performance and provide project managers with scope, schedule, change, and financial input.
• Work collaboratively with project leaders, architects, design partners, peers, contractors, and other stakeholders to define objectives, deliverables, and practical technical solutions.
• Ensure compliance with education, utility, and/or industrial regulations, quality standards, and best practices.
• Engage with external partners, including vendors and regulatory agencies, to ensure compliance and integration of project design.
• Establish strong relationships with contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders to ensure design alignment with project objectives.
• Conduct site visits and inspections to ensure project requirements are met.
• Prepare detailed design documents, specifications, and reports.
• Apply strong electrical engineering skills, experience, and knowledge to the design and oversight of the design for building projects.
• Plan the production resources and workflow to produce the design documentation, drawings, and calculations required for electrical engineering projects.
• Effectively delegate work to production support staff.

• Mentor and support engineers and designers through task guidance, work review, informal feedback, and a culture of technical excellence and accountability.
• Support workload planning, resource coordination, staffing discussions, retention efforts, and recruiting or interviewing activities as requested.
• Contribute to improvements in practice standards, delivery methods, workflows, and technical processes to improve consistency, quality, and project outcomes.

• Stay current with evolving electrical engineering regulations,…