Lead Electrical Engineer

hargroveepc; Concord (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Paid time off

Health insurance benefits

Matching retirement contributions

Job summary

Hargrove EPC seeks a lead Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer to oversee a team delivering electrical and instrumentation deliverables on time and within budget. This role requires extensive senior experience and a deep NEC knowledge base, guiding complex projects and ensuring quality throughout.

You will drive design criteria, estimates, and project controls, mentoring engineers and coordinating with multiple disciplines to meet client needs and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university is required.
• Registration: Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.
• Experience: 15+ years of relevant industrial experience in electrical and instrumentation engineering.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and approving all electrical deliverables.
• Establishing the design criteria, incorporating client requirements and codes.
• Planning and organizing the work of your team and communicating plans.
• Maintaining control of the project by tracking budget, schedule and quality.
• Producing detailed designs with efficient use of construction materials and clear calculations.

Skills

NEC knowledge

Lighting level calculations

Wire sizing

Conduit sizing

Education

Bachelor or Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineering registration

Job description

What You'll Be Doing

Job Scope: Generally responsible for supervision and technical direction over a team of engineers and designers when functioning as a lead engineer. As lead engineer, responsibilities include total delivery of the electrical and instrumentation deliverables and services on time, within performance budget and meeting quality expectations. Duties may include performing advanced engineering work serving as a technical specialist for complex engineering assignments. Work at this level requires extensive progressive experience in electrical and instrumentation engineering and involves utilization of project controls for cost, schedule and quality of projects. This work will be performed under minimal supervision.

Primary responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Reviewing and approving all electrical deliverables.
• Validating professional service and construction estimates at the beginning of a project, and then tracking changes as the project progresses.
• Producing professional service estimates in accordance with the department standards for project deliverables, project studies and estimates, change notices and for the development of new work through proposal efforts.
• Establishing the design criteria, incorporating client requirements, estimate and/or scope basis and design basis meeting applicable state, local and federal standards and codes. Ensuring that any requirements for permitting have been established and communicated to the project team.
• Knowing your scope and deliverables. Initiating timely change notices when deviation is made from your scope, affecting schedule, deliverables or cost of the work.
• Planning and organizing the work of your team. Communicating the plan to your team, the project leadership team and the client.
• Maintaining control of the project by tracking and maintaining discipline performance budget progress, schedule commitments, and quality standards. Understanding and utilizing the project tools that are in place for project control.
• Delegating work to engineers and designers in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up for support to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Consulting with design leaders from other disciplines in proportion to their technical skills and experience, then following up for support to ensure efficient progress and quality.
• Producing estimate level preliminary designs and material take-off suitable for the level of estimate being performed on a project.
• Developing conceptual layouts and cost studies as necessary to determine the simplest, most efficient approach to solving engineering tasks at hand.
• Familiarity with and utilizing department design and drafting standards.
• Producing detail design calculations and sketches for materials of construction associated with the project. Calculations produced will be neatly prepared and organized for efficient checking by others and efficient use by drafters/designers for preparing drawings and as a deliverable when required.
• Producing project designs with efficient use of construction materials with an overall emphasis on ease of construction and completed product meeting the expectations of the client.
• Checking calculations made by other engineers to ensure accuracy, conformance to codes, specifications, design criteria and conformance to good engineering practice.
• Producing construction specifications.
• Monitoring drawings in progress to ensure conformance to design calculations and specifications.
• Assisting the drafting group in resolving routine layout and detailing problems. Ensuring that sufficient sketches and details are provided for completion of engineering drawings.
• Reviewing and checking vendor drawings and other discipline drawings for electrical/instrumentation input.
• Producing bid packages enabling electrical/instrumentation purchase inquiries to be issued for procurement of materials or subcontract pricing.
• Participating in the planning of training programs, continuous education opportunities and professional development of staff.
• Ability to identify and develop work sharing packages for interoffice execution support. Provide leadership to ensure communication and execution of work within scope, schedule and budget.

• This position offers a highly competitive compensation package, including paid time off, health insurance benefits, and matching retirement contributions.

Ideal Background

• Education: Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university is required.
• Registration: Professional Engineering registration is highly preferred.
• Experience: This position requires 15 or more years of relevant industrial experience in electrical and instrumentation engineering.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge and application of the current version of the National Electrical Code (NEC).
• Ability to perform lighting level calculations.
• Ability to size wire, conduit and ov