Senior Electrical Designer: Lead One-Line & Panel Schedules

CTS-Complete Technical Services, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

CTS-Complete Technical Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer to create and review electrical design deliverables from design development to construction support.

You will coordinate with civil, structural, mechanical, and instrumentation teams, ensuring compliance with NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, and project standards. Responsibilities include mentoring junior designers, performing load calculations, reviewing submittals, and supporting field RFIs and redlines.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or technical certificate in drafting/design; BS preferred.
• 8–10 years of electrical design experience in industrial, EPC, or data center environments.
• Proven experience producing lead electrical design deliverables with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and check electrical design deliverables, including one-line and three-line diagrams, panel schedules, cable and conduit schedules, grounding and lightning protection layouts, lighting layouts, and equipment arrangement drawings, using AutoCAD, Revit, and/or other CAD/BIM platforms in accordance with project design standards.
• Coordinate electrical design activities with other disciplines to resolve layout conflicts and maintain interdisciplinary consistency across the model and drawing set.
• Perform electrical load calculations, voltage drop calculations, cable sizing, and short‑circuit/coordination study inputs under the direction of the Lead Electrical Engineer.
• Review vendor and subcontractor drawings and submittals for conformance to the project's electrical design and specifications, and prepare markups and technical comments for engineering review.
• Support development of material take‑offs (MTOs), bills of material, and requisitions for electrical equipment and bulk materials.
• Maintain design deliverables within the project document control and CAD/BIM management system, ensuring correct revision control, issue status, and drawing register accuracy.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior designers and CAD/drafting staff assigned to the discipline; check their work for accuracy and standards compliance.
• Support field engineering and construction by responding to RFIs, reviewing field change requests, and preparing as-built/redline markups related to electrical design.
• Apply and enforce applicable codes and standards (NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, and local jurisdictional requirements) in all design work, escalating conflicts or ambiguities to the Lead Electrical Engineer.
• Participate in interdisciplinary design reviews, 3D model reviews, and safety‑in‑design/HAZOP reviews as required, representing the electrical discipline's design intent.
• Comply with all Company and HSE procedures and policies.
• Follow Corporate Principles: Professionalism, Integrity, Teamwork.

Skills

AutoCAD

Revit

Electrical design

3D BIM coordination

NEC/NFPA 70E

P&ID reading

Mentoring

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

Associate's degree or technical certificate in drafting/design

BS in Engineering Technology or related field

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

CAD/BIM platforms

Job description

CTS-Complete Technical Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer to create and review electrical design deliverables from design development to construction support.

You will coordinate with civil, structural, mechanical, and instrumentation teams, ensuring compliance with NEC, NFPA 70E, IEEE, and project standards. Responsibilities include mentoring junior designers, performing load calculations, reviewing submittals, and supporting field RFIs and redlines.