Electrical Engineering Lead: Global, Mission-Critical Power

Sheladia Associates, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life insurance

Long-term disability

Medical insurance

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

SHELADIA Associates, Inc. is seeking an Electrical Engineering Lead to direct assessments and modernization of electrical systems for mission-critical facilities, including generators, UPS, and energy management.

The role requires leadership, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate across disciplines. Travel to project sites worldwide is possible; the position is based in the Washington, DC area and involves collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams on complex building projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from an accredited program.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• Experience assessing, designing, or modernizing complex building electrical and emergency-power systems.
• Strong knowledge of electrical, life-safety, energy, grounding, lighting, and mission-critical power standards, including generators, UPS, and lightning protection.
• Proficiency with power-analysis, lighting, BIM/CADD, energy, and document-review platforms.
• Strong leadership, communication, technical writing, and professional judgment skills.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government personnel security clearance when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessments of normal and emergency power, electrical distribution, lighting, grounding, lightning protection, controls, and related electrical systems.
• Evaluate electrical capacity, condition, reliability, redundancy, power quality, code compliance, maintainability, and remaining service life.
• Develop repair, replacement, resiliency, modernization, energy-efficiency, and life-cycle improvement recommendations.
• Support mission-critical power systems, including generators, uninterruptible power supplies, renewable energy, microgrid concepts, and energy-management initiatives.
• Coordinate electrical requirements with architectural, mechanical, structural, fire-protection, communications, information-management, physical-security, and technical-security systems.
• Support facility-condition assessments, maintenance planning, feasibility studies, and capital-improvement programs.
• Prepare and review electrical calculations, one-line diagrams, studies, drawings, specifications, technical reports, cost inputs, schedules, and scopes of work.
• Participate in multidisciplinary Integrated Design Reviews and independent technical reviews throughout the design process.
• Support constructability reviews, value engineering, construction administration, testing, commissioning, system turnover, and operational readiness.
• Provide quality-control reviews, mentor engineering staff, and support proposals, interviews, and client presentations as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Technical writing

Professional judgment

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Master's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Power analysis software

BIM/CADD

Energy modeling tools

Document-review platforms

Job description

SHELADIA Associates, Inc. is seeking an Electrical Engineering Lead to direct assessments and modernization of electrical systems for mission-critical facilities, including generators, UPS, and energy management.

The role requires leadership, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate across disciplines. Travel to project sites worldwide is possible; the position is based in the Washington, DC area and involves collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams on complex building projects.