Electrical Inspector

JMT; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT) seeks an Electrical Field Services Inspector to perform inspections during construction, upgrades, and commissioning for water and wastewater facilities in the southeast Virginia region. You will coordinate daily field activities with the management team, client teams, and contractors to ensure conformance to NEC and project specs.

The role involves testing of low to medium voltage systems, motor control centers, VFDs, PLCs, instrumentation, and field

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of the National Electrical Code (NEC) and electrical codes.
• Experience conducting field investigations for arc flash data collection and ground grid testing.
• Ability to coordinate with design engineers, contractors, and clients during construction and inspections.
• Familiar with electrical equipment standards, layouts, and sizing using vendor software.

Responsibilities

• Perform constructability reviews of designs.
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of installation, testing methods, and NEC compliance.
• Assist with field investigations for arc flash data collection and ground grid testing.
• Research electrical equipment standards and prepare circuit and panel schedules.
• Compute arc flash, short-circuit, and voltage drop analyses per NEC.
• Coordinate and supervise project inspection activities to ensure contractor compliance.
• Assign, schedule, and supervise inspection staff across project phases.
• Draft project correspondence and facilitate meetings with client and contractors.
• Maintain project records and field notes for as-built documentation.

Skills

Electrical inspections

NEC knowledge

Field investigations

Project coordination

Tools

Vendor sizing software

Job description

Job Description

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary:

Applies standard inspection procedures to ongoing activities during and after construction and installation, upgrades, retrofits and quality assurance of proper methods and procedures for electrical components general safety and conformance to plans, specifications and local and national codes.

Currently we have an opportunity for an Electrical Field Services Inspector to join our team. The successful candidate will work on various projects for municipal, industrial, federal and private sector clients. The Candidate would coordinate daily field activities with our construction management team, the client’s inspection and engineering department as appropriate, other consulting firms, and contractors, for construction installations of facilities serving the water and waste water industry in the southeast region of Virginia. Construction will include low and medium voltage plant power distribution systems, motor control centers, VFD’s and Soft Starts, motors, PLC’s, instrumentation, and other related equipment for plant power and control systems. Project work will include working with design engineers and contractors for layout and selection of equipment based on specifications, field investigations, field engineering support during construction, inspections for compliance of National Electrical Code (NEC) and client specifications, equipment testing and commissioning, and develop project redline as-build conditions. The successful candidate will be working to help provide inspections for new facilities, expansions, upgrades, and retrofits.

Immigration sponsorship or support (e.g. H1B, F-1 CPT/OPT/STEM OPT) is not available for this position, except for qualified candidates eligible for the TN visa classification.

Compensation for this position is $95,000.00 - $130,000.00, commensurate with experience, education and certifications. The provided range is a good faith estimate based on the requirements described within the job description. We notice that we receive a wide variety of applicants and recognize that the person selected may be less experienced or more experienced. If so, the actual salary range may vary from the estimate provided.

Essential Functions And Responsibilities

• Perform constructability reviews of designs
• Demonstrate skills with thorough knowledge of procedures, practices, installation, and testing methods, as well as of the National Electrical Code
• Provide assistance with field investigations for arc flash data collection and ground grid testing
• Research electrical equipment standards and specifications, design equipment layout and coordination with process mechanical, produce circuit and panel schedules, conduct engine generator sizing using vendor software
• Perform electrical calculations including arc flash, short circuit, system coordination, voltage drop, equipment sizing, and research and design to the current National Electrical Code
• Coordinate and supervise project inspection activities to ensure contractor compliance of plans, contract documents, specifications and standards
• Assign, schedule and maintain subordinate inspection staff throughout all phases of the project
• Work on behalf of the Client to draft project correspondence, facilitate project meetings, and resolve construction related field issues
• Gathers and maintains record documents
• Makes field notes and computations