Senior Electrical Engineer — Instrumentation & Controls Lead

NPAworldwide; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NPAworldwide seeks a Senior Electrical Project Engineer to lead electrical engineering for capital projects, facility expansions, and process upgrades from concept through commissioning. You will coordinate with EPC firms, consultants, utilities, equipment suppliers, and internal teams, reviewing studies and drawings, mentoring engineers, and ensuring NEC/NFPA/IEEE compliance.

The role focuses on electrical interfaces, power distribution, substations, switchgear, MCCs, relays, and industrial

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET-accredited program.
• Seven or more years of electrical and instrumentation engineering experience in chemical, petrochemical, energy, manufacturing, or related process industry.
• Experience delivering capital projects through engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and startup.
• Experience as an electrical discipline lead, project technical lead, or owners engineer.
• Experience overseeing EPC firms, consultants, equipment suppliers, system integrators, and construction contractors.
• Strong knowledge of industrial power distribution through 480 VAC and working knowledge of medium-voltage systems.
• Knowledge of NEC/NFPA/IEEE/ANSI/ISA/UL/OSHA and hazardous-area requirements.
• Experience supporting electrical and instrumentation construction, testing, loop checks, energization, commissioning, and startup.
• Strong technical leadership, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as electrical discipline lead and owner's technical representative for assigned capital projects.
• Establish electrical and instrumentation design criteria, scopes of work, technical requirements, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Direct and review work performed by EPC firms, consultants, vendors, system integrators, and construction contractors.
• Develop and review calculations, specifications, data sheets, RFQs, technical bid evaluations, drawings, and construction packages.
• Lead the design and integration of power distribution, substations, transformers, switchgear, MCCs, motors, VFDs, panelboards, relays, and circuit breakers.
• Coordinate instrumentation power, grounding, signal segregation, cable routing, junction boxes, remote I/O, and hazardous-area requirements.
• Review PLC, HMI, control-panel, industrial-network, and packaged-equipment interfaces for technical completeness.
• Coordinate with controls engineers and system integrators on interlocks, alarms, permissives, shutdowns, and equipment sequences.
• Coordinate electrical and instrumentation requirements with process, mechanical, piping, civil/structural, construction, operations, safety, and procurement teams.
• Review EPC schedules, document registers, technical deviations, field changes, and change-order proposals.
• Support vendor inspections, FAT/SAT, testing, commissioning-readiness, energization, and startup.
• Identify technical, procurement, cost, and schedule risks and propose corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with Company standards and applicable NEC/NFPA/IEEE/ANSI/ISA/UL/OSHA and hazardous-area requirements.
• Mentor engineers and designers.
• Travel approximately 10–20%, depending on project requirements.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Project leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Multi-project management

Industrial power distribution

Control systems coordination

Education

ABET-accredited Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

ETAP

EasyPower

SKM

AutoCAD Electrical

Rockwell ControlLogix

Job description

NPAworldwide seeks a Senior Electrical Project Engineer to lead electrical engineering for capital projects, facility expansions, and process upgrades from concept through commissioning. You will coordinate with EPC firms, consultants, utilities, equipment suppliers, and internal teams, reviewing studies and drawings, mentoring engineers, and ensuring NEC/NFPA/IEEE compliance.

The role focuses on electrical interfaces, power distribution, substations, switchgear, MCCs, relays, and industrial