Sr. Electrical Engineer

Arcadis; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401K

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer in Houston, Texas to contribute to sustainable design and engineering projects. This role involves developing technical solutions, managing client relationships, and mentoring team members. Candidates should have over 10 years of MEP experience, a Professional Engineer license in Texas, and familiarity with Autodesk tools. Benefits include healthcare, retirement plans, and PTO, with a competitive salary ranging from $105,000 to $170,000.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ relevant MEP experience in Retail practice.
• Professional Engineer license in Texas.
• Experience with Autodesk Platforms and digital design tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-class solutions in electrical engineering.
• Develop engineering reports, calculations, and specifications.
• Engage with clients and manage project opportunities.

Skills

Sustainable electrical engineering expertise

Communication skills

Client interaction

Knowledge of Autodesk Platforms

Education

BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in engineering

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud

BIM

Job description

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Design & Engineering team within the North America Places group. We are looking to grow our team of skilled multi-discipline engineers and engineering consultants throughout North America. The role sits within our Places Global Business Area (GBA). We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe, and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people’s lives through new or redeveloped Data Center, Transit Facility, Commercial and Retail, Mixed-Use Residential, Institutional/Educational, and Social Infrastructure developments.

Arcadis is the second largest architectural firm in the world. Join us in our journey to become the largest engineering firm in the world by expanding our reach in the Northern Texas region.

In this role, you will be accountable for providing first-in-class solutions to internal and external clients through your technical expertise in electrical engineering and associated building systems. You will use your knowledge of building-level power distribution, lighting, emergency power, controls and similar building systems in combination with an affinity for client interaction to provide sustainable, high-quality deliverables ranging from front end planning reports to issue for Construction document packages.

This position has flexible working hours, and you will join a collaborative team that truly values its people. This is a key location based position. While work scopes may be located throughout the United States, we are searching for individuals in the Dallas area to support our existing world-class Retail architectural practice.

Role accountabilities

• Sustainable electrical engineering expertise: Have a solid understanding of and ability to develop engineering reports, calculations, drawings, and specifications both directly and indirectly through team members
• Market Presence: Be aware of and engaged in organizations and clients in the region. Have the ability to raise and take ownership of project opportunities.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Shared ownership of opportunity pursuit, strategy creation, client relationships, attention to quality, and delivery excitement/innovation.
• Operational Knowledge: Possess commercial strategy acumen in pursuits/fee creation and understanding/tracking of financial success in mechanical scopes acting as lead for.
• Understanding of global ways of working: Soft skills to be successful within a multicultural environmental with people of differing backgrounds. Ability and flexibility to directly work with teammates throughout the globe.
• Line Management and People Development: As location-based team expands, ability to manage relationships and innate ability to mentor and train colleagues to spread expert knowledge.
• Up to 20% travel may be required which will include overnight stays

Qualifications & Experience

Required Qualifications

• 10+ or more years’ relevant MEP experience within the Retail practice landscape
• Professional Engineer in Texas
• Ability to communicate both internally and externally regarding client needs/desires and technical solutions
• Comfort and confidence-bringing in client-facing discussions
• Experience working with projects that utilize fundamental knowledge of Autodesk Platforms and other digital design tools including Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) or Building Information Modelling (BIM) engineered solutions

Education

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct working experience on past projects with Arcadis (including legacy CRTKL and IBI) architects
• Experience in full-service consulting design firms and coordination with in-house A/E resources
• Adaptable to new digital tools such as AI in an effort to understand how delivery must change over the short and medium term
• Practical Sustainability and carbon reduction experience.
• Experience with urban environments implementing transformative solutions
• Experience with user-experience-centric-type projects requiring narrow engineering solutions

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Benefits

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $105,000 - $170,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.