Lead Electrical Engineer, Buildings & Infrastructure

WSP USA; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP USA is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer in California to join our Property & Buildings team. The role supports the full project lifecycle from concept through construction close-out on education, municipal, and commercial facilities across California.

You will lead electrical design efforts, coordinate with clients and cross-functional teams, ensure code compliance, and contribute to business development within the building sector.

Qualifications

• Capable interpersonal and communication skills when interacting with others, expressing ideas effectively and professionally to an engineering and non-engineering audience.
• Effective self-leadership with attention to detail, results orientation, and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Moderate proficiency with technical writing, office automation, software, technology, math principles, predictive models, spreadsheets, and tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data relating to physical work site, blueprints, GIS data maps, substation components, equipment specifications for procurement package development and pricing, IFR/IRC detailed design and review processes, and IEEE, NESC, ANSI, NCEC, and NERC standards and regulations for design work.
• Coordinate, review and approve electrical infrastructure design plans for smaller and less-complex projects, ensuring data integrity and work is compliant with all applicable codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Prepare data and visualizations such as tables, charts, reports, sketches, calculations, cross-sections, and other illustrations for the interpretation or presentation of more complex data, findings, or analyses.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Self-leadership

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Architectural Engineering

Master’s Degree in Engineering

California PE

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Job description

WSP USA is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer in California to join our Property & Buildings team. The role supports the full project lifecycle from concept through construction close-out on education, municipal, and commercial facilities across California.

You will lead electrical design efforts, coordinate with clients and cross-functional teams, ensure code compliance, and contribute to business development within the building sector.