Job Description

Electrical Designer/Engineer

At EXP, we're driven to provide innovative solutions for the world's built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world's most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

Are you ready to design your future?

Be our next Electrical Designer/Engineer

Your work environment at EXP

In this role, you will be a part of the Entertainment, Hospitality & Healthcare Buildings team, of the MEP Sector, based in Orlando Office.

What a day at EXP has in store for you

• Responsible for meeting firm's engineering quality levels for discipline on assigned projects.
• Oversees development of design concepts by Designers and ensure proper application and execution.
• Verifies designer's work quality regarding specifications, reports, code application, submittal review, equipment selection, deliverables, and drawings.
• Mentors and encourages development of Designer level staff.
• Responsible for applying firm's risk management practices of project engineering.
• Leads the discipline design to produce construction documents that meet the project requirements within the allocated schedule and budget while minimizing erroneous efforts.
• Have a solid understanding of engineering fundamentals and advanced concepts to execute all required aspects of discipline engineering.
• Encourages collaboration to seek the best solutions.
• Front-end loads projects and apply best practices to set the proper direction of the project in SDs and DDs.
• Manages work plans and deliverables on multiple projects within budgeted hours.
• Writes studies and reports for Electrical systems on projects.
• Executes complex electrical designs with conflicting design requirements or difficult coordination.
• Expert in specific Electrical requirements for applications within a market sector(s).
• Evaluates Value Engineering (cost cutting) items with respect to our level of risk.
• Edits and develops basis of design narratives documenting project scope.
• Meet with contractors during bid phase to review the design details.

Engineering/Design

• Prepare one-line diagrams.
• Maintain the discipline Engineering documents for the project.
• Respond to RFI's for the project, and accurately review submittals.
• Solve installation problems with electrical systems, travel to the site to resolve issues.
• CAD proficient with working CAD drawings.
• Prepare CAD floor plans showing electrical device layouts, circuitry, fixtures, equipment, etc.
• Perform calculations for available fault current study; implement proper AIC ratings of equipment, coordination studies, and arc flash analysis.
• Prepare calculations for electrical loads and panel schedules.
• Thorough knowledge of NEC and other codes.
• Understand and correctly apply concepts of emergency and normal power systems
• Extensive knowledge of lighting, photometric, and lighting controls.
• Understand and apply concepts of voltage drop, conductor sizing, harmonics, etc.
• Edit electrical specifications.
• Layout fire alarm devices on floor plans.
• Develop equipment room sizes during Schematic Design and Design Development phases.
• Select and schedule equipment.
• Meet with vendors to determine specification requirements for application.
• Coordinate with other disciplines (MEP/FP, arch, struct, etc) for all electrical & lighting details.
• Manage and deliver revisions (ASI's, etc).
• Understands circuit breaker coordination and application.
• Understands specific Electrical requirements for applications within the Market Sector.
• Understands and properly applies details relevant to projects.

Project Coordination

• Distribute project related correspondence to project team members.
• Prepare project meeting minutes Schedule in-house discipline meetings.
• Oversee deliverables to and from clients.
• Oversee and encourage coordination between disciplines.
• Provide discipline specific manpower planning for projects.
• Provide continuous support for the Project Manager.

What your experience looks like

• 4+ years' experience in electrical design for Hospitality, Entertainment or Healthcare facilities.
• Thorough knowledge of NEC and building codes.
• Experience in using SKM Power Tools or similar software for engineering calculations (Fault Current Studies, Coordination Studies, Arc Fault Studies)
• AutoCAD and REVIT MEP proficient (REVIT Experience is required)
• BS Architectural Engineering, or BS Electrical Engineering, or equivalent degree.
• Registered P.E. is preferred but not required

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