Who We Are

Hargrove supplies unparalleled services in engineering, procurement, construction management, and technical services in the industrial, commercial, and government sectors. With over 2,700 Teammates in 19 offices domestically and internationally, we build long-term support relationships in the energy generation, manufacturing, research and development, and process-heavy industry in on-site support arrangements, in plant-level small projects and consulting roles, and in larger capital projects.

Hargrove’s key operating principle is to provide the Right People, in the Right Place, at the Right Time. We believe that relationships and partnering together provide the best results and long-term benefits for our clients.

Work-life balance and flexibility are important areas of focus for Hargrove. We’re happy to discuss flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and the business. important areas of focus for Hargrove. We’re happy to discuss flexible working hours, patterns, and locations to suit you and the business.

What You'll Be Doing

Job Scope: Generally responsible for supervision and technical direction over a team of designers when functioning as a lead designer. As lead designer, responsibilities will include total delivery of the electrical and instrumentation deliverables and services on time, within performance budget and meeting quality expectations. Duties may include performing advanced design work serving as a technical specialist for a complex design assignment. This level requires extensive progressive experience in electrical and instrumentation design and involves utilization of project controls for cost, schedule and quality of projects. This work will be performed under minimal supervision.  

Primary responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Ability to communicate the current status of project work, including identification of delays or improvements in the projected finish date.

• Producing 480VAC equipment specifications with engineering review and approval.

• Producing electrical installation specification with engineering review and approval.

• Complete understanding of the skills and experience required to perform design functions.

• Proactively lead and coordinate the efforts of a design staff to achieve scope, schedule, and budget objectives.

• Mentoring subordinates

• Participating in team or cross-discipline checks to insure coordination between the design disciplines

• Checking calculations made by other designers to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and conformance to good engineering practice.

• Determining construction quantities and assist in providing construction cost estimates.

• Consulting with design leaders from other disciplines in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up for support to ensure efficient progress and quality.

• Conferring with clients to determine scopes of work and interact with clients on technical matters

• Participating in the planning of training programs, continuous education opportunities and professional development of staff.

• Experience with DCS & PLC systems from a hardware design standpoint.

• Working knowledge of the current version of the National Electrical Code (NEC)

• Ability to size wire, conduit and overcurrent protection for both lighting and power applications.

• Ability to perform voltage drop calculations.

• Ability to calculate tray and conduit fill.

• Ability to determine motor control center loading.

• Familiarity with specifications and installation details of construction bulk materials and equipment.

• Ability to create accurate electrical installation documents from the information found on vendor equipment drawings.

• Knowledge and understanding of workflow/information flow between disciplines.

• Knowledge and understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for the production of all electrical deliverables.

• Ability to accurately estimate completion of assigned tasks.

• Knowledge of instrumentation and valves, as well as basic knowledge of applications