Electrical Engineer

EDP Renewables North America; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

EDP Renewables North America is seeking an Electrical Project Engineer to support the Engineering team in delivering wind, solar, and energy storage projects. The role involves developing layouts, preparing RFPs and exhibits, coordinating consultants, and managing project changes to ensure safety, quality, and compliance.

Responsibilities include preliminary engineering for development, reviewing EPC proposals, interpreting technical plans, and maintaining scopes of work, budgets, and schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is required.
• 0–3 years of design and engineering experience is required.
• Understanding of electrical engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Provide preliminary engineering support for Development, including layouts, diagrams, site layouts, interconnection designs, permits, and EPC RFP documents.
• Review EPC proposals and engineering deliverables for accuracy and adherence to EDPR standards.
• Prepare and interpret technical plans, specifications, and calculations.

Skills

Strong communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Detail-oriented

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Electrical Project Engineer supports the broader Engineering team in delivering wind, solar, and energy storage projects. Responsibilities include developing project layouts, preparing RFPs and technical exhibits, managing engineering agreements and technical documents, coordinating consultants, and handling project changes, while ensuring safety, quality, and compliance with company and industry standards.

Main responsibilities:

• Provide preliminary engineering support for Development, including conceptual layouts, single-line and three-line diagrams, site layouts, utility interconnection designs, electrical permits, and EPC RFP documents.
• Review EPC proposals and engineering deliverables, ensuring accuracy, quality, and adherence to industry and EDPR standards.
• Prepare and interpret technical plans, specifications, and calculations.
• Maintain and update scopes of work, design guides, specifications, budgets, schedules, and lessons learned.
• Coordinate between the Engineering team and other internal teams to support effective communication and project delivery.
• Assist with overseeing, guiding, and managing the work of third-party consultants.
• Provide input for electrical CAPEX, value engineering activities and manage internal engineering services requests.
• Additional duties as required

Employment type

Direct Reports: None

Travel: Willingness and ability to travel as needed (up to 25% travel anticipated, with prior approval)

Work site

Houston, TX

What are we looking for Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is required
• 0 – 3 years of design and engineering experience is required
• Understanding of electrical engineering principles.

Behavioral Requirements:

• Strong level of initiative and ability to work unsupervised
• Strong organizational commitment and high attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills
• Ability to work successfully with a team daily in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

Physical demands & working conditions:

• Sitting/Standing/Flexibility: Ability to frequently perform physical tasks including standing, sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting, squatting, and reaching while on project sites; ability to stand and sit for 8 or more hours when in an office environment
• Speech/Reading: Ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently and deliver a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form
• Lifting: Ability to lift items weighing up to 20 pounds
• Vision/Hearing: Ability to understand a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram, or schedule form
• Safety: Ability to understand and communicate safety precautions when necessary
• Walking: Ability to walk several miles per day, including across unpaved and rough surfaces when on project sites

More than academic knowledge and technical skills, we are looking for ambitious people who are enthusiastic about the future and who bring human skills aligned with our purpose.

Equal opportunities for all

Our vision is that each person combines their unique characteristics and experiences to fulfill our mission of creating new energy for the planet. We are an inclusive employer, ensuring all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and value all people, and we are committed to fostering a sense of belonging for each person who is part of the EDP group.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. EDP makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time. For further information, please review this notice from the Department of Labor: EEO is the Law poster (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster). You may have additional rights pursuant to recent amendments to federal labor laws. Please review these protections from the EEO is the Law Supplement (https://www.eeoc.gov).

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• Empower our employees through a positive and innovative work environment that promotes collaboration and agile decision-making;
• Respect and value each person, providing a flexible, healthy, and inclusive workplace with a range of attractive benefits;
• Provide a meaningful work experience and prepare our people for future challenges through different opportunities for development and internal mobility;

Our efforts have resulted in several distinctions over time, highlighting the EDP group's strong positioning and its dedication and commitment to attracting and retaining the best talent:

• Top employer certification by Top Employers Institute
• Part of the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index