Senior Electrical Engineer/Designer

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

At Stantec we understand the connection between where we work and where we live. This is why we always design with community in mind. As part of a collaborative engineering team, our Electrical design engineers foster innovated designs with a focus on safety, prevention, and quality of life. This role will support our growing electrical design team in the Burlington, MA office. As part of a collaborative engineering team, our Electrical design engineers foster innovated designs with a focus on safety, prevention, and quality of life.

Your Key Responsibilities

Senior Electrical Designers research and design electrical components, equipment, systems, and networks for engineering projects of unique and complicated nature. They design electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes. Routinely, investigate and advise on unusual and difficult problems encountered in the electrical engineering practice, that require innovative solutions. A Career Level 7 Electrical Designer applies advanced engineering principles and has a solid working knowledge of advanced technical research within the electrical engineering field. The position may require the modification of established guidelines and initiation of new approaches. The role requires independent decisions in planning, organizing and completing technical assignments. Evaluates complex, special and advanced engineering tasks. Collaborates with engineers in other disciplines to augment project solutions. Advises on technical problems and supervision, and may plan, schedule and review work of professional engineers and technicians. Support positioning for potential projects, by writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews and supporting negotiations for project contracts. Represents the organization in client meetings and leverages established relationships to pursue opportunities to secure additional work. May act as internal consultant providing technical guidance on most complex projects; writes technical papers and may be sought to participate on boards of other companies. May provide work leadership and training to lower level professional and technical staff. Actively participates in local professional organization(s) and sought out by others as an expert; engages in regional or national activities.

• Responsible for design of complex projects which require specialized knowledge, including technical preparation and coordination of the design, specifications, technical documentation test data, etc. to ensure compliance with project requirements. Assess environmental impact and project risks.
• Serve as senior project engineer, performing in depth evaluation and alternative analyses to support project decisions and resolve unusual and complex situations. Responsible for evaluating the electrical components to ensure they meets all federal and local codes and specifications.
• Liaise with clients as a designated contact, on regulatory and/or funding agencies, and others to obtain and determine project requirements and approvals.
• Support marketing and business development professionals in positioning for potential projects, writing technical portions of proposals, participating in client interviews and supporting negotiations for project contracts. Provides cost estimates and budget projections for technical proposals.
• Support Project Manager(s) with technical evidenced proposals as project issues arise with clients, contractors, equipment suppliers/vendors, or reviewing agencies.
• Support business case for project decisions through environmental impact assessments and evaluation of project risks.
• Manage, direct, and monitor progress of the electrical technical elements within each phase of a project.
• Provide guidance to other team members as an internal technical expert.
• Contribute to the development of new standards and specifications of electrical design.
• Supervise and monitor client relationship strategies.
• Maintain and identify opportunities to expand existing business.