Electrical Engineering Project Discipline Leader

Overview

SSOE is seeking a dynamic and knowledgeable Electrical Engineering Project Discipline Lead for our Solar/Battery Practice, who develops innovative projects in a transformational and growth sector. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in designing and shaping the future of advanced industrial facilities for the world’s leading companies. You will work closely with our clients, engineering teams, and other professionals to ensure that projects meet and exceed industry standards. If you have a passion for cutting-edge technology, your expertise will be crucial in ensuring the quality, compliance, and innovation of our designs. 

Why Join SSOE?

At SSOE, you'll work with amazing colleagues and be part of something big! We've consistently been named a “Great Place to Work” and are experiencing the most successful years in our history. Along with industry-leading salary compensation, you will have the opportunity to purchase shares in the company — shares that have significantly outperformed both the S&P and Dow averages.

We offer hybrid or fully remote work schedule options for this role.

Responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities:

• Acts as an electrical discipline project lead in a multi-discipline design team, overseeing a multi-location production team, with strong client engagement skills.
• Responsible for the performance of the team to contracted scope, schedule, and budget on medium to large-sized battery/solar PV manufacturing projects. Manage technical resources to accomplish project objectives.
• Generate comprehensive technical project plans, specifications, drawings, and models aligned with industry standards and client requirements.
• Designing the system with items such as switchgears, transformers, and distribution panels to control and distribute power to various sections of the facility.

• Perform short circuit calculations to ascertain fault currents and specify suitable protective devices.

• Perform precise voltage drop calculations to ensure electrical system stability and compliance with industry standards.

• Determine conduit and conductor sizing, meticulously accounting for current loads and environmental variables.

• Assess cable tray fills methodically to guarantee proper cable management, organization, and future scalability.

• Implementing redundancy and backup systems to ensure uninterrupted power supply and minimize downtime in case of power failures.

• Integrate UPS systems to provide short-term power backup in case of power fluctuations or outages, ensuring continuous operation of critical equipment.

• Ensure all electrical designs strictly adhere to pertinent local, state, and national electrical codes and regulations.

• Apply established design techniques and exercises discernment in adapting and modifying design concepts as needed. Uphold quality control by adhering to company and project design and Revit standards.

• Foster collaboration, communication, strategy, and support within your team, multidisciplinary groups (Electrical, Structural, Process/Chemical, Architectural, etc.), and inter-company teams to optimize efficiency, quality, and resource allocation.

• Conduct field verifications and site walks to identify, validate, resolve, and integrate solutions into design packages. Resolve design issues on-site during construction if necessary. 

• Responsible for the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the work.
• Responsible for overall quality management of the team.  Performing quality reviews of project deliverables to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and conformance to good engineering practices.
• Participate in managing change for deviations in scope, schedule or professional services for the discipline.
• Maintaining effective communication with project team members and with the client.
• Coordinates work with other disciplines.
• Meets with contractors to discuss technical aspects of project design and construction.
• Conduct field verification and site walks to identify, validate, resolve and integrate solutions into design packages.  Resolve design issues on-site during construction, as necessary.
• Provide leadership, guidance, mentoring/coaching less experienced staff
• Contribute to business development activities as needed.  
• Participate in proposal preparation activities to establish scope of services, effort hour estimate(s), exclusions/clarifications, deliverables, and staffing/work plans to align with project schedule.
• Travel required.

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