Senior Electrical Engineer

Sacramento, CA / Temecula, CATesco Controls – Engineering /Full-time /On-site

At Tesco Controls (a UFT company), our culture is grounded in the idea that the how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves. Our winning behaviors guide the way we work, collaborate, and grow—both as individual employees and as a team. Our core winning behaviors are to Build Relationships, have a Relentless Drive for Results, to Communicate with Integrity and Focus, and to Be a Mentor, Teacher, Learner.

These behaviors are more than words—they are the foundation of our success and continued growth. Here, you’ll join a stable, growing company where your work directly supports cleaner water, stronger communities, and critical infrastructure across the country. If you want meaningful work, real growth opportunities, and a team that takes pride in doing the right thing—you’ll find it here. Apply today and help power the systems that keep our world running.

The Senior Electrical Engineer / Project Lead is Tesco’s advanced electrical product engineering practitioner. The role exists for engineers who have developed exceptional depth in industrial electrical equipment and can use that expertise to lead technical execution, mentor other engineers, establish project-specific methods, and deliver complex equipment packages without becoming a traditional people manager. Depending on project scope and scale, the Senior Electrical Engineer / Project Lead may lead a complete switchboard, MCC, VFD lineup, pump-control, or control-panel project;

lead one critical workstream; or serve as the technical authority supporting another project lead. The role remains hands-on: senior technical leadership at Tesco means producing and reviewing engineering, working directly with Manufacturing Engineering and production, supporting FAT, and resolving field/application issues. This role will require travel up to 10% of the time.

What you'll do:

Lead technical execution for complex electrical equipment projects or work streams involving UL 891 switchboards, Tesco MCC products, UL 845 MCC modifications under applicable OEM file-extension arrangements, VFD lineups, pump-control panels, UL 508A panels, service equipment, and related power/control packages. Translate Tesco enterprise product standards and organizationally defined led engineering methods into practical project-specific technical approaches, options, assemblies, and configuration rules.

Perform and review complete electrical equipment design using Solid Works-based model workflows, including one-lines/schematics, physical layout, component and conductor selection, bus/power distribution, control power, interfaces, serviceability, clearances, BOMs, and downstream manufacturing requirements.

Coordinate with Manufacturing Engineering before submittal and release to resolve constructability, listing, access, thermal, fabrication, bus/wiring, material, and production issues.

Engineer and review motor-control, VFD, pump-control, power-distribution, service-entrance, control-panel, PLC/I/O interface, instrumentation-interface, and related electrical functions according to project requirements and applicable standards.

Lead and mentor Electrical Engineers and Junior Electrical Engineers through real project work, design review, product application, shop engagement, FAT, troubleshooting, and field support.

Own difficult technical decisions and clearly communicate requirements, assumptions, calculations, standards, listing constraints, risks, and unresolved issues to the Project Manager and project team.

Support estimating and proposal development for electrical equipment and product packages using quantities, standard assemblies, validated productivity assumptions,…