Senior Electrical Engineering Manager

Socket.dev; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus program

Paid time off

Health, dental, vision, and life保险

401(k)-retirement plan

Night and swing shift differential pay

Job summary

Holder Construction is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager to lead our MEP Building Technology Team in Atlanta, GA. This role provides strategic and technical leadership for integrated electrical solutions across project lifecycles, coordinating with clients and external partners.

You will guide engineering standards, design reviews, and manufacturing readiness, while mentoring a team of engineers in a fast-paced, mission-critical environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in electrical engineering or related leadership roles.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or related discipline.
• PE license preferred but not required.
• Experience with mission critical facilities or hyperscale data centers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the engineering team to deliver reliable electrical systems.
• Develop engineering standards and review deliverables.
• Coordinate with external partners to ensure manufacturing readiness.
• Drive risk management across schedule, procurement, and constructability.
• Ensure design solutions optimize fabrication and lifecycle maintenance.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Team development

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

PE license preferred

Job description

ABOUT US

Holder Construction is a nationally recognized leader in the construction industry, consistently ranked among the top firms on ENR’s Top 400 Contractors list. We are a performance-driven company that believes in rewarding excellence and investing in our people. Our structured career development program empowers associates to grow quickly into expanded roles and responsibilities based on merit. With operations throughout the United States, we offer a highly competitive compensation and benefits package, including:

• Annual bonus program
• Paid time off
• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k)-retirement plan
• Night and swing shift differential pay for select roles

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineering Manager to join our MEP Building Technology Team in our Atlanta, GA office and provide strategic and technical leadership for the development and execution of integrated electrical solutions. This position is responsible for engineering team leadership, design execution, product standardization, manufacturing readiness, quality oversight, client engagement, and coordination with external engineering partners throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to lead, develop, mentor, and evaluate engineering personnel while establishing a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Working knowledge of mission critical electrical equipment including medium voltage systems, switchgear, generators, UPS systems, busway, power distribution equipment, controls systems, and associated vendor requirements.
• Ability to establish engineering standards and provide final technical review and approval of engineering deliverables prior to release for procurement and manufacturing.
• Experience establishing and enforcing engineering quality processes including design reviews, first-of-a-kind reviews, lessons learned implementation, and engineering standards development.
• Experience leading the engineering, design, coordination, and execution of complex mission critical projects, including cross-functional teams, integrated product development, design deliverables, and manufacturing-ready solutions.
• Experience developing standardized, repeatable electrical products and design platforms for deployment across multiple projects and clients.
• Ability to integrate engineering and manufacturing requirements to produce designs optimized for fabrication, assembly, transportation, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Ability to develop engineering execution plans, resource forecasts, and workload management strategies to support multiple concurrent projects.
• Ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients, contractors, consultants, equipment suppliers, and internal project stakeholders.
• Ability to proactively identify, communicate, mitigate, and document engineering, schedule, procurement, constructability, manufacturing, and commissioning risks.
• Ability to lead and manage the engineering, development, standardization, and execution of integrated electrical products including Modular Electrical Rooms (MERs), Electrical Equipment Skids, Modular Hot Aisle containment, and other prefabricated mission critical solutions.
• Understands principles of professional service agreements, subcontract agreements, owner contracts, delegated design scopes, and associated contractual risks.
• Ability to manage and coordinate external engineering consultants, vendors, equipment manufacturers, and delegated design partners to deliver complete, coordinated, and manufacturing-ready solutions.
• Ability to read construction drawings and specifications with primary experience with electrical and controls scope of work. Understanding and able to reference and apply National Electrical Code (NEC) standards and requirements.
• Ability to conduct cross-discipline drawing coordination and design completion/quality reviews specifically for the MEP disciplines.
• Can contribute constructability, technical expertise, and engineering solutions to a project’s design evolution.
• Ability to manage vendor’s and subcontracted design firms in the completion of integrated design concepts to finalize products ready for manufacturing.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in electrical engineering, mission critical design, integrated product development, engineering management, or related leadership positions.
• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related construction or engineering discipline.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred though not required. Employer-sponsored professional development opportunities, including reimbursement for approved training materials, certification courses, and certification examination fees.
• Extensive experience with hyperscale data centers, mission critical facilities, industrial infrastructure, power systems, or complex integrated electrical projects strongly preferred.
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate with cross functional teams.
• Demonstrates a strong commitment to mentorship, employee development, and team building through coaching, knowledge sharing, constructive feedback, and the creation of growth opportunities for engineering personnel.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision; self-starter

Holder is committed to Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE).

Substance abuse testing and background screening is a condition of employment and Holder Construction does not sponsor applicants for immigration status or benefits.

Holder is committed to Equal Opportunity Employment (EOE).

Substance abuse testing and a background screening is a condition of employment and Holder Construction does not sponsor applicants for immigration status or benefits.