Electric Engineer - San Francisco, San Diego, CA
Experience Level: Associate
Experience Required: 8 Years
Education Level: Bachelor’s Degree
Job Function: Engineering
Industry: Construction
Compensation: $101,000 - $150,000
Total Position: 1
Relocation Assistance: Yes
Visa Sponsorship Eligibility: No
Note: This role could be based in the client's Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, or Seattle Office. The candidate must have done electrical engineering work in the state of CA.
Job Summary
As an Associate Electrical Engineer, you will apply your technical knowledge of building services systems across a portfolio of groundbreaking projects in the US and globally. Strong communication skills and teamwork are essential to life at Buro Happold, offering you unrivalled career, project, and development opportunities.
What Would You Be Doing?
- Work closely with clients, architects, and other Buro Happold Engineers and/or design team members.
- Produce coordinated detailed design drawings, electronic models, specifications, written reports, site observation reports, schedules, etc.
- Organize technical and financial proposals for new work.
- Manage workload of Project Discipline Engineers and Technicians.
- Take responsibility for concept and preliminary engineering solutions for detail design.
- Prepare Technical Specifications.
- Monitor financial performance of jobs.
- Keep senior staff informed of important service/design decisions.
- Mentor junior Electrical Engineers.
- Ensure practices, policies, and services represent the client’s best interests.
- Plan, organize, and manage personal workload to meet deadlines.
- Proactively raise concerns regarding workload and deadlines.
- Maintain an overview of the project team’s workload and commitments.
- Actively contribute towards delivering profitable projects.
- Monitor financial performance of jobs, managing job/project administrative systems.
What Are We Looking For?
- 8+ years’ experience in electrical engineering design in the building services and construction industry.
- Experience in Higher Education, Museums, Commercial, Transportation Hubs, and/or Stadiums.
- Relevant Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) desirable.
- LEED AP accredited preferred.
- Experience using Revit.
- Familiarity with computational analysis tools (e.g., electrical fault analysis, lighting design software).
- Ability to accept a high degree of responsibility in a team-based organization.
- Excellent technical knowledge of electrical systems.
- Excellent client-facing and communication skills.
- Experience in the preparation of technical reports for delivery to clients.
- Ability to problem solve and propose multiple solutions to clients.
In Return…
- Solve interesting challenges on world-class projects.
- Work within a multidisciplinary environment.
- Advance your career within a global community of engineering professionals.
- Have a positive impact on the environment.
What We Offer:
- Generous benefits package.
- Annual discretionary bonus.
- Generous PTO (4-5 weeks depending on position) plus 10 paid holidays.
- 401k with company match.
- Hybrid working & summer hours.
- Reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees.
- Global network of experts.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Participate in our Young Employees Forum and Diversity and Inclusion Forum.