Sr. Electrical Designer

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Electrical Designers complete advanced, complex, and confidential tasks requiring strong understanding of engineering principles and a high standard of designing and drafting skills. Understanding of control system will be an asset

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides design services by gathering information, making studies, computing calculations, and preparing detailed design and deliverables in accordance with project requirements
• Designs components or portions of systems and modifies existing designs to develop or improve products and facilitate manufacturing operations
• Gathers information, makes studies, computes calculations, and prepares original rough layouts and sketches to present design proposals
• Coordinates design criteria with engineering providing layout skid packages including MCC building, cable tray and lighting layouts, and motor schematic drawings
• Investigates pertinent design factors, such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, replace ability, strength-weight efficiency, and contractual specification requirements
• Checks completed layouts and drawings for clarity, completeness, conformity to codes, regulations, and standards, procedures, specifications, critical interface compatibility, productibility aspects, and dimensional accuracy of calculations
• Checks for conformity to design / drafting standards, design specifications, and economy of fabrication and identifies design errors, omissions, and other deficiencies
• Coordinates assigned engineering and design work with other project groups
• Recommends revisions and / or improvements in design layout to responsible engineers or designers
• Participates in project planning and execution, man-hour estimation, and schedule development
• Supervises and provides technical direction to intermediate and junior designers

Prerequisites

Education

Experience

Other

Required Skills and Abilities

Relationships

Internal

External

Authority Level

Work Environment

Specific Work Conditions

Physical Requirements

Performance Measures

Time Management

Accuracy

Communication Skills

Quantity and Quality of Work

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this document are not meant to be an exhaustive list but rather an overview of the job. The employee is responsible for completing all duties necessary to help fulfill departmental goals.