Electrical Designer

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Houston, TX, USA
Hybrid
Mid level
Other • Real Estate • Consulting
The Role
Design and deliver electrical systems for buildings including power distribution, lighting, energy storage, and fire alarm systems. Produce coordinated construction documentation, perform load studies and calculations, specify equipment, conduct site assessments, and support project management. Coordinate with architects and disciplines, prepare technical reports, uphold QA, participate in client meetings, and mentor junior staff.
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Your Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Designer to join our team and play a key role in the design of sophisticated electrical systems across a diverse portfolio of architectural and engineering projects. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to complex, high-impact environments while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

You will design and deliver electrical systems spanning low- and high-voltage power, power distribution and generation, energy storage, lighting, and fire alarm systems for a broad range of project types, including:

  • Mission Critical Facilities
  • Laboratories and Research Environments
  • Healthcare Facilities
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Central Utility Plants and Campus Distribution Systems
  • Corporate and Commercial Developments

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Develop electrical designs that meet project objectives, codes, and engineering standards
  • Ensure accurate, complete, and well-coordinated construction documentation
  • Plan and manage project workloads to align with established schedules and budgets
  • Perform and/or oversee electrical load studies, system analysis, and calculations
  • Size and specify equipment and develop system applications
  • Coordinate design solutions with architectural teams and other engineering disciplines
  • Maintain organized project files, calculations, and technical documentation
  • Uphold quality assurance standards throughout all phases of design
  • Conduct or supervise on-site condition assessments and field investigations
  • Evaluate staffing needs and support effective resource planning
  • Monitor scope compliance and document deviations as they arise
  • Prepare technical memoranda, reports, and design narratives
  • Participate in client meetings and technical discussions
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and project team members
Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

  • Strong working knowledge of applicable electrical codes, standards, and emerging technologies
  • Proficiency with electrical engineering design and documentation software
  • Broad understanding of electrical engineering principles, with working familiarity across other engineering disciplines and architecture
  • Advanced analytical and calculation skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication abilities

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an accredited institution
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant electrical engineering experience

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Us

Stantec’s Buildings team is on a mission to become the world’s leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, consultants, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. Our collaborative culture and our innovative, sustainable approach to projects help us create buildings that matter to our world.

Together, we are enhancing the quality of life globally through design.

Join us and design your place with Stantec.

About the Team
Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) have access to medical, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health saving accounts, flexible spending accounts, 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase program, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage and paid family leave. Regular full-time and part-time employees will receive ten paid holidays in each calendar year. In addition, employees will be eligible to accrue vacation between 10 and 20 days per year and eligible for paid sick leave (and if more generous, in accordance with state and local law).

Temporary/casual employees have access to 401(k) plans, employee stock purchase program, and paid leave, in accordance with state and local law.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements

Skills Required

  • Strong working knowledge of applicable electrical codes and standards
  • Proficiency with electrical engineering design and documentation software
  • Broad understanding of electrical engineering principles and related disciplines
  • Advanced analytical and calculation skills
  • Strong written and verbal communication abilities
  • Bachelor of Science in Engineering from an accredited institution
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant electrical engineering experience
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The Company
HQ: Edmonton, Alberta
22,253 Employees

What We Do

We're active members of the communities we serve. That's why at Stantec, we always design with community in mind. The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 350 locations across six continents. We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring buildings, energy and resource, environmental, and infrastructure projects to life. Our work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through design, construction, and commissioning—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. Our local strength, knowledge, and relationships, coupled with our world-class expertise, have allowed us to go anywhere to meet our clients'​ needs in more creative and personalized ways. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.

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