Senior Electrical Engineer

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

AECOM has an opening for a Senior Electrical Engineer to support our growing Energy Business Line. For this role, AECOM offers the freedom and flexibility to work remotely and/or be located at a variety of Energy offices in multiple locations across the United States.

Our team provides a wide range of electrical engineering services across markets sectors including industrial facilities (mining, water treatment, Oil and Gas, Power Generation) transmission (substations, OH/UG transmission systems, generator interconnections, interconnection strategy), power distribution (OH/UG power systems, substations, EV charging networks, microgrid design, etc.), renewables (Solar PV, Battery Energy Storage Systems, Wind), and next-generation energy (hydrogen, fuel cells, electrolyzers, etc.). We are looking for a strong leader with a power engineering background to promote our skills to new clients and maintain our existing client base. Qualified candidates will have a strong electrical power engineering background and leadership experience.

The successful candidate is expected to be a detail-orientated, experienced engineer who can make decisions independently. Along with your technical excellence, you will also be expected to provide leadership for the other electrical engineers in our Energy group. The focus of the experience must be in the power industry associated with electrical engineering and design of electrical distribution systems within facilities. It is a plus to have design experience within solar or other renewable energy facilities.

It is an excellent career opportunity for an engineer with a strong technical background and looking to grow into an engineering leadership role. This role offers a competitive salary, benefits and relocation assistance where and when applicable.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Serves as lead engineer on mid- to large size projects.

• Provides specialized technical input to studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise.

• Approves and signs off on work.

• Provides technical expertise for studies and design efforts.

• Presents complex technical solutions to clients.

• Performs quality control reviews of work developed by others.

• Participates in development of technical proposals.

• Provides estimates for the engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements on large projects.

• Responsible for the electrical engineering design work on assigned projects

• Working with Project Engineer and Project Manager on developing design schedules and budgets for electrical engineering work activities

• Performing Electrical engineering activities and deliverables for the following:

• Power system studies (load flow, short circuit, protective coordination, arc flash analysis)

• One line and three-line diagrams

• Protective relay and metering one line / three-line diagrams

• AC/DC schematics

• Panel Layouts

• Equipment layouts and sectional views

• Connection Diagrams

• Motor Schematics

• Bill of Materials

• Cable Schedules

• DC power distribution design

• Hazardous area classification codes and standards

• Developing construction and equipment specifications

• Supporting projects during construction, start-up, and commissioning

• Grounding Analysis and Design

• Verifying engineering work performed by peers

• Attending client meetings

DCS—Energy
AECOM’s Energy practice provides a wide range of services from consulting and engineering design to energy engineering, energy procurement and construction (EPC) for power, energy efficiency, and renewable energy clients. Our understanding of the big picture – and the interconnection between generation, distribution, storage, and the demand side of the meter – allows us to deliver holistic strategies that improve and modernize next generation energy infrastructure. We connect knowledge and experience across our g