Electrical Design Lead — 3D Modeling & NFPA 70

United States Digital Space LLC; Ogden (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned Lead Designer to supervise a team of designers and deliver NFPA 70 code-compliant facility designs as part of Sentinel program efforts in Ogden, Utah. You will manage 3D modeling in SmartPlant 3D and 2D drawings in AutoCAD and SmartSketch, ensuring coordinated layouts and BOMs.

You will mentor junior staff, coordinate across disciplines, and ensure timely project milestones while maintaining high safety and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Requires AA/AS or Certificate in Engineering/CAD with 10–12 years of relevant experience or 12–14 years of relevant work experience.
• Must be a United States citizen
• Must be able to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a project schedule and ensuring the team's design deliverables are completed on time.
• Managing a team of up to 10-12 designers to include approving time records, expense reports, performing quarterly reviews.
• Perform technical reviews of the design deliverables and ensure customer requirements and code requirements are met.
• Participate in facility model reviews and ensure clashes in the 3D model are coordinated with the appropriate engineering disciplines and resolved in a timely manner.
• Providing training/mentoring to less experienced designers
• Coordinate designs between different engineering disciplines and functions (construction and startup)
• Coordinate model changes with the client when impacting client provided equipment
• Providing detailed "pre-job" explanations of work to employees including technical requirements, lessons learned, design inputs, and schedule expectations.
• Resolving differences of professional opinion between staff and the client

Skills

Design team leadership

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Technical design reviews

NFPA 70 knowledge

Industrial/nuclear facility design

Strong communication

Education

AA/AS or CAD certificate

Tools

SmartPlant 3D

SmartSketch

AutoCAD

3D modeling

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a seasoned Lead Designer to supervise a team of designers and deliver NFPA 70 code-compliant facility designs as part of Sentinel program efforts in Ogden, Utah. You will manage 3D modeling in SmartPlant 3D and 2D drawings in AutoCAD and SmartSketch, ensuring coordinated layouts and BOMs.

You will mentor junior staff, coordinate across disciplines, and ensure timely project milestones while maintaining high safety and compliance standards.