Senior Electrical Engineer

Red Tree Engineering; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Employer-sponsored benefits

Full lifecycle exposure

Entrepreneurial team environment

Flexible title/compensation

Job summary

Redtree Engineering seeks a Senior Electrical Engineer with deep power plant design experience to lead schematic design, detailed engineering, and field activities for coal, natural gas, and combined-cycle facilities. The role focuses on mentoring engineers, coordinating global teams, and delivering scalable electrical solutions for new builds and modernization projects.

The position offers 100% remote work within the U.S., competitive benefits, and the chance to influence project lifecycle from

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license.
• 10+ years of hands-on electrical design experience in the power generation industry (coal, natural gas, gas-fired, and/or combined cycle).
• Experience designing electrical systems for power plants (MV/HV distribution, switchgear, substations, P&C).
• Experience mentoring, training, or leading engineers, including reviewing technical work.
• Experience with low, medium, and high-voltage distribution systems and critical electrical infrastructure.
• Knowledge of protection and control systems, relay coordination, switchgear design, and transformer applications.
• Experience performing electrical studies using ETAP or similar software.
• Familiarity with NEC, IEEE, NFPA, NESC, and utility requirements.
• Willingness to travel to project sites (10-20%).

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for electrical scope on assigned power generation projects, setting design direction and quality standards for the team.
• Bring deep hands-on power plant design experience to bear on complex electrical systems for coal, natural gas, and combined cycle facilities.
• Mentor, train, and develop engineers, including reviewing their calculations, drawings, and design decisions.
• Manage and lead teams of electrical engineers to complete assigned activities and delegate tasks.
• Coordinate with overseas project teams to ensure design quality across time zones.
• Develop electrical schematics, one-line diagrams, and equipment layouts for generation facilities.
• Design and specify medium- and high-voltage systems including switchgear, substations, transformers, P&C systems, and interconnections.
• Coordinate with manufacturers and vendors on specifications and issue resolution.
• Perform electrical studies including load flow, short-circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding, and harmonics using ETAP or similar.
• Support control systems integration and plant automation initiatives.
• Prepare and review design packages to comply with codes and client specs.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams to develop integrated, constructible solutions.
• Support construction startup activities with remote submittal reviews and technical direction.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Power plant design

Electrical systems

NEC/IEEE knowledge

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Professional Engineer (PE) license

Tools

ETAP

Protection coordination

Switchgear & Substations

Load flow analysis

Job description

About Redtree

Redtree Engineering specializes in engineering, project management, and construction support services across mission-critical facilities, power systems, industrial projects, and complex infrastructure. Redtree offers 100% remote work for this role. As a growing engineering firm, we’ve built our team around flexibility from day one, giving engineers the ability to do serious, high-impact power generation design work from anywhere in the U.S., without relocating or commuting to an office.

Position Summary

Redtree is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer with deep power plant design experience to lead schematic design development, detailed engineering, and field engineering activities for power generation projects, with a focus on coal, natural gas, and gas-fired and combined cycle power plants, as well as emerging data center power infrastructure and behind-the-meter or fully islanded energy projects.

In addition to technical design work, this role plays a key part in growing the team, mentoring and training less experienced engineers, leading project teams (including supporting staff overseas as part of Redtree’s global CSI network), and helping set technical direction and quality standards across electrical scope.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing engineering team that partners with industry-leading clients to deliver innovative, resilient, and scalable solutions from concept through construction and commissioning, all while working 100% remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for electrical scope on assigned power generation projects, setting design direction and quality standards for the team.

• Bring deep, hands‑on power plant design experience to bear on complex electrical systems for coal, natural gas, and combined cycle generation facilities.

• Mentor, train, and develop less experienced engineers, including reviewing their calculations, drawings, and design decisions.

• Manage and lead teams of electrical engineers to complete assigned activities, including workload planning and task delegation.

• Direct and support project teams and engineering staff overseas as part of Redtree’s global CSI network, ensuring consistent design quality and coordination across time zones.

• Develop electrical schematics, one‑line diagrams, and equipment layouts for power generation facilities and associated auxiliary systems.

• Design and specify medium‑and‑high‑voltage electrical systems including switchgear, substations, transformers, protective relaying, grounding systems, and utility interconnections, as well as protection and control (P&C) systems for generation and substation applications.

• Coordinate with equipment manufacturers and vendors to develop equipment specifications and resolve technical issues during design and procurement.

• Perform electrical system studies including load flow, short‑circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding, cable ampacity, harmonic, and transient analyses using ETAP or equivalent software.

• Support control system integration and plant automation initiatives for both new‑build and modernization projects.

• Prepare and review engineering design packages to ensure compliance with applicable codes, industry standards, and client specifications.

• Coordinate with mechanical, civil, structural, controls, and project management teams to develop integrated and constructible solutions.

• Support construction administration and startup activities, primarily through remote review of compliance submittals, technical direction, and resolution of construction issues, with occasional site visits as needed.

• Support proposal development, scoping, budgeting, and schedule estimation for new opportunities.

• Develop technical specifications, calculations, reports, and drawing packages throughout all project phases, including feasibility studies, conceptual design, detailed engineering, construction support, and commissioning.

• Lead development-support and owner’s‑engineer work, such as technical due diligence and design reviews, as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.

• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license required.

• 10+ years of hands‑on electrical design experience specifically within the power generation industry, including coal, natural gas, gas‑fired, and/or combined cycle power plants.

• Demonstrated track record designing electrical systems for power plants, including medium‑and‑high‑voltage distribution, switchgear, substations, and protection and control systems.

• Demonstrated experience mentoring, training, or leading other engineers, including reviewing their technical work.

• Have experience with low, medium, and high‑voltage power distribution systems, critical electrical infrastructure, and electrical equipment selection.

• Possess working knowledge of protection and control systems, relay coordination, switchgear design, and transformer applications.

• Have experience performing electrical studies using ETAP or similar analysis software.

• Demonstrate familiarity with applicable industry standards and codes, including NEC, IEEE, NFPA, NESC, and utility requirements.

• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary project teams and represent electrical scope to clients.

• Willingness to travel to project/construction sites as needed (estimated to be 10-20%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directing or coordinating with engineering staff or project teams overseas, or in distributed/multi‑time‑zone environments.

• Experience supporting plant modernization, life extension, retrofit, or uprate projects.

• Experience with hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise data center developments.

• Experience with mission‑critical electrical systems and redundancy architectures, including N, N+1, and 2N configurations.

• Experience with medium‑voltage distribution systems, substations, and utility interconnections.

• Familiarity with renewable energy, battery energy storage systems (BESS), microgrids, or behind‑the‑meter power solutions.

• Familiarity with advanced power systems studies, such as EMT modeling and transient analysis.

What Redtree Offers

• 100% remote work , U.S.-based, with no relocation or office requirement.

• 100% employer-sponsored benefits.

• Direct exposure to the full project lifecycle, from concept through construction and commissioning, rather than a narrow phase or discipline silo.

• A growing, entrepreneurial engineering team partnering with industry-leading clients on mission‑critical facilities, power systems, and complex infrastructure.

• Multiple openings across Mid to Senior levels, with the flexibility to match title and compensation to the selected candidate’s experience.

Work Authorization: Must be able to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.