Description
Senior Electrical Engineer
Westwood Professional Services, Inc.
Westwood Professional Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our renewables team. The position is responsible for managing the electrical engineering of commercial and utility-scale solar projects. The Senior Electrical Engineer will be the primary electrical contact for clients and will oversee the electrical design budget for projects to ensure budgets are met.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage the electrical engineering of commercial and utility-scale solar projects, ensuring adherence to project budgets.
- Verify the incorporation of contractual electrical engineering scope into design and coordinate change orders with project managers.
- Insure project deliverable schedules for electrical engineering scope are met.
- Assist project managers in responding to RFPs by preparing proposal scope and fees for the electrical engineering.
- Coordinate with other project disciplines, including civil engineers, geotechnical/structural engineers, and surveyors.
- Schedule and plan necessary resources needed to support projects on a weekly basis.
- Perform and lead electrical engineering design and creation of construction documents for projects.
- Oversee project electrical team resources and be responsible for staff performing electrical calculations and studies.
- Coordinate with clients, utilities, and code enforcement officers.
- Perform QA/QC of design work performed on projects for which you are the lead electrical engineer.
- Maintain awareness of currently available equipment and industry best practices.
- Collaborate with and support electrical engineering teams in other offices as projects and workload sharing between offices dictates.
- Support construction of projects by responding to contractor and owner requests, including RFIs and submittal review.
- Assist Market Directors as needed for marketing efforts and creation of marketing materials surrounding electrical engineering work.
- Supervise, train, and mentor graduate engineers, staff engineers, and design technicians.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Renewable Engineering Program.
- Knowledge of NEC and NESC.
- Knowledge and proficiency in the use of an electrical power system modeling program(s).
- 6-10 years of experience in the design of electrical distribution, generation, and/or general electrical construction.
- Working knowledge and ability to read and create construction drawings and specifications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
- Professional appearance with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with writing proposals, managing project budgets, invoices and change order processes, progress reports, managing project data, and communicating project requirements to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Strong work ethic and positive attitude.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and be a supportive team member.
- Self-motivated with the ability to balance multiple projects under tight deadlines without supervision.
- Limited capacity experience with AutoCAD.
- Experience and knowledge of overall design and construction of utility-scale PV and/or wind plants
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Renewable Engineering Program.
- Knowledge of NEC and NESC.
- Knowledge and proficiency in the use of an electrical power system modeling program(s).
- 6-10 years of experience in the design of electrical distribution, generation, and/or general electrical construction.
- Working knowledge and ability to read and create construction drawings and specifications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and professional appearance.
- Experience writing proposals, managing project budgets, invoices, change orders, progress reports, and project data.
- Ability to coordinate with clients, utilities, and code enforcement officers.
- Self-motivated with ability to balance multiple projects under tight deadlines without supervision.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment and be a supportive team member.
- Limited capacity experience with AutoCAD.
- Experience and knowledge of overall design and construction of utility-scale PV and/or wind plants.
- Ability to supervise, train, and mentor graduate engineers, staff engineers, and design technicians.
Westwood Professional Services Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Westwood Professional Services and has not been reviewed or approved by Westwood Professional Services.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match plus profit sharing is emphasized, with contributions into the plan noted when performance is strong. This structure is consistently highlighted as a meaningful part of total rewards.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage with HSA/FSA options and an EAP form the core of a comprehensive package. The breadth of health offerings is presented as competitive for the industry.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellness programs, tuition reimbursement, certification support, identity protection, pet insurance, and referral bonuses indicate breadth beyond core benefits. Additional perks like holiday cash and student-loan services reinforce lifestyle support.
Westwood Professional Services Insights
What We Do
Westwood is a leading multi-disciplined AEC industry professional services provider for national wind energy, solar energy, electric transmission, private development, and public infrastructure projects. Westwood was established in 1972 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Through a focus on its people, culture, and clients, Westwood has quickly expanded to serve clients across the nation from multiple U.S. offices. Awards In 2021, Westwood placed #4 and #21 respectively on Zweig Group’s national Hot Firms’ and Best Firms to Work for Lists, and received two 2nd place awards for Zweig’s Marketing Excellence. Westwood also ranked consistently higher four years in a row on the Engineering News Record (ENR) list as a leading design firm in the country. The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on award-winning projects nationwide. Multi-Disciplined Surveying & Engineering Services Westwood’s core services, surveying and engineering, are greatly enhanced by the in-house expertise of our planners, landscape architects, GIS experts, and environmental scientists. As a full-service firm, our clients are able to easily tap into the extra knowledge it sometimes takes to keep projects moving forward. Westwood’s multi-disciplinary services frequently provide all that is needed in one consultant. We offer several services including surveying, aerial mapping and LiDAR, civil engineering, PV engineering, water resources management, transportation engineering, construction management, land planning & design, landscape architecture, environmental permitting, GIS, cultural resource services, NPDES and SWPPP compliance. - See more at: https://westwoodps.com/about-us/our-company
