Senior Electrical Engineer - Buildings

Description

Stantec Buildings is on a mission to become the world's leading integrated design practice. Our architects, engineers, interior designers, sustainability specialists, and technologists are passionate about the power of design. We take an innovative, collaborative approach to projects, sharing a common belief that sustainable design for the built environment can make the world a better place for future generations. Join us and design your place with Stantec.

Your Opportunity

Our Buildings team has an opportunity for a Lead Electrical Engineer to join our team. Your role as a contributor on our professional consulting team is to work on projects of high complexity and serve as a leader of a team or project through all phases of a project lifecycle. The Electrical Team Lead role is to serve as the overall technical lead on projects of various sizes and complexities, with the support of a team of electrical engineers and designers.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Leads work on multiple projects with a team of design colleagues to conceptualize and develop full documentation for new construction and renovation projects for multiple types of facilities such as healthcare, commercial offices, higher education, research laboratory, and industrial facilities.

• Provides supervision to staff of all levels to develop staff skills and abilities by providing guidance and mentor to strengthen technical abilities and develop career goals.

• Leads in client meetings on projects to establish design criteria, review design progress as well as supporting through construction administration.

• Leads in evaluation, selection, and engineering of all electrical engineered systems and products for a project.

• Leads the preparation and coordination of the project specifications with construction documents.

• Leads in the development of a design through sketches, engineering calculations, electronic models, diagrams, and other visual formats.

• Prepares and reviews documentation in various project phases including site plans, floor plans, diagrams, and details.

• Leads project coordination meetings with internal team members and/or external consultants, owner and contractor, sub-contractors, and vendors.

• Conducts quality assurance and quality control on own projects and projects of peers.

• Leads in the development of new standards and specifications for the electrical engineering group, along with a team of other electrical engineers.

• Performs field work (or reviews field work performed by others) to review existing facility conditions for use in development of site-specific electrical design documents and to review work being performed by contractors.

• Applies technical expertise while leading cross-functional resources to meet project requirements within established timeframes and budget.

• Provides client consultation, drawing on professional expertise and knowledge of Stantec's services.

• Nurtures existing client relationships and proactively pursues opportunities for new business by supporting new project proposals by developing scope, design budgets and design approach.

• Acts as a resource for staff to all levels in any area of technical expertise and works with staff to train them on applicable knowledge of electrical / building codes, field work, and the processes associated with designing electrical systems.

• Maintains current knowledge of technologies and trends, as they