Electrical Design Engineer at Professional Engineering Consultants in Wichita, Kansas

Job Description:

Professional Engineering Consultants (PEC) was founded more than a half century ago as a full-service consulting firm providing mechanical, electrical, structural, civil, planning services, survey, geotechnical, construction inspection, and testing servicing public, private, and industrial clients.

Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, with additional locations in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado, our projects take us across the nation and around the world. At PEC, our employees have a passion for the communities where they work, live, and play.

If you are looking for a career path that provides the opportunity for you to reach your full potential, PEC is the place to be. PEC's team culture is built on our ability to solve problems through a collaborative process. We elevate each other by aligning personal strengths to professional development. Our engineers and staff do not just sit behind desks. We work together with other teams, make site visits, take tours, meet face-to-face with the clients, establish big goals, and set out to achieve them.

Electrical Engineer – Oil, Gas, Chemical, Heavy Industrial, T&D

As an Electrical Design Engineer, you will work with experienced engineers to perform electrical engineering activities for Oil & Gas, Chemical, Heavy Industrial, T&D facilities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform engineering design, coordination with design staff with plan production, and construction administration on projects.
• Performs design computations by hand and by computer software. Uses experience, education, and judgement to make informed decisions. Retains knowledge and builds on previous experiences to increase capabilities in breadth and complexity.
• Organizes multiple tasks and completes them in an orderly fashion.
• Effectively communicates and coordinates with the Project Engineer and other PEC Divisions to complete design tasks on numerous projects.
• Ability to organize and handle multiple project assignments.
• Prepares quantity take-offs for use in construction cost estimates and engineering fee estimates.
• Reviews project submittals for compliance with design standards, workflows, and drafting standards.
• Aid in hazardous area classification source forms and plans; design distribution systems; engineer distribution basic, relaying, and metering one lines; engineer motor schematics; power system studies including load flow, short circuit, motor starting, time-current curves, circuit breaker settings, protective relay settings, grounding studies, arc flash studies, UPS and battery sizing, cable sizing, and other electrical design and calculation activities.
• Aid in development of specifications for electrical equipment purchase.
• Makes trips to job sites to survey existing electrical conditions (travel about 10% - 15%).
• Regularly meet and correspond with clients and vendors.
• Interact daily with other discipline engineers and project managers.
• All other duties assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or related degree from an Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) accredited program.
• Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam.
• 5 years of electrical engineering experience.
• Professional Engineering License (PE) and NCEES record for licensing in multiple states preferred but not required.
• Must be willing to travel to the job site and meet with clients and construction personnel to scope the project and answer construction problems. (10-15%)
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.

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