What are the responsibilities and job description for the Experienced Electrical Engineer position at Design Engineers?
Experienced Electrical Engineer
Location: Madison, WI
Position Type: In-Person/Full-Time
Position: Electrical Engineering position involved with the investigation, design, and construction of building interior and exterior lighting, electrical distribution, and power systems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Attend meetings and communicate with clients to establish their needs and discuss design issues with them.
- Undertake electrical systems design including power systems, lighting, fire alarm and other low voltage systems.
- Perform engineering calculations for power and lighting systems.
- Provide direction to designers and BIM technicians for preparation of drawings detailing the design.
- Coordinate work with Clients and design team members of other disciplines.
- Create/prepare reports.
- Incorporate sustainable design methods.
Skills and Abilities needed for the position:
- Proactive, collaborative, tenacious and client focused.
- Self-directed and highly motivated with a strong work ethic.
- Voracious appetite for learning.
- Strong interest in other disciplines with the goal of developing integrated designs.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills – must be able to describe conceptual ideas verbally and in writing to clients and co-workers, contractors, and vendors.
Education and Experience requirements:
- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
- Experience with design of lighting, power, fire alarm and low voltage systems desired.
- Experience with SKM Power Tools, AGI32 and Revit desired.
- 10-15 years’ experience in building systems design
Why Design Engineers?
Professionally, we’re large enough to give you the opportunity to work on award-winning, nationally recognized projects while advancing your career in a stable, growing company. Culturally, DE likes to support our proactive, collaborative, and tenacious talent by fostering a healthy work-life balance. Like we always say, we want you to work to live, not live to work. We value long-term relationships, and you’ll see this value reflected in how we treat our partners, clients, and the people we hire.