Freese and Nichols is seeking a
SeniorElectrical Engineer for
Dallas or Fort Worth, Texas. As an Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electrical design work across water and wastewater projects while helping define technical direction, deliver high-quality results, and support technical growth in the team. This role is intended for the firm's most complex and highest-risk electrical work.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide firm-level technical leadership for electrical design and electrical systems for water and wastewater systems including commissioning, resilience, and risk decisions
- Assist in defining technical direction for the Industrial Power Team, including standards, design frameworks, design standards, specification strategy, review expectations, and ensure accountability
- Guide Electrical design, integration, commissioning, sequencing, startup, and workload approaches for pump station, water and wastewater projects
- Coach and mentor junior electrical staff
- Advise project managers, team leaders, client-service leaders, and executive leadership on technical strategy, risk mitigation, staffing approach, fee preparation, and recovery actions
- Serve as a senior advisor to internal and external clients, owners, project teams, and firm leadership on complex technical issues, disputes, claims support, and innovation initiatives
- Provide QA/QC for Electrical deliverables, technical reviews, standards details, and standard specifications
- Provide root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned
- Lead coordination across the Electrical group, process, electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, and operations on major projects
- Represent the firm externally through industry leadership, committees, technical guidance, publications, presentations, and client forums
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, architectural engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline relevant to Electrical Power design from an ABET-accredited program
- Active Professional Engineer license (P.E.)
- 6+ years of relevant experience in Electrical Power for Water and Wastewater Systems, knowledge of SCADA, instrumentation design, or related technical design work is a plus.
- Recognized technical authority with significant impact on standards, quality, innovation, risk controls, and complex Electrical design for water and wastewater systems
- Advanced knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, electrical systems for water and wastewater systems, commissioning, and construction documentation
- Experience developing complex electrical systems from conceptional to final including duct bank routing and layouts, control wiring diagrams, one-line diagram, and construction costs
- Experience establishing QA/QC expectations, technical review practices, standards application, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and quality improvement
- Executive-level communication skills with clients, leadership, project teams, contractors, vendors, and interdisciplinary stakeholders
- Working knowledge of standards such as NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, UL 508A, NEMA MG-1, IEEE 519, NFPA 820
Preferred
- PE licensure in multiple jurisdictions served by the firm
- Experience serving as responsible licensed engineer or engineer of record for critical or high-risk I&C scope
- Experience establishing, standards, innovation, specification strategy, QA/QC systems, risk controls, training, and delivery frameworks
- Leadership in the electrical industry, presentations for conferences/seminars or white papers, member of a professional committee, or electrical standards committee
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