ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION CAD DETAIL ENGINEER

JOB SUMMARY: We have a critical engineering team that converts electrical one-line drawings into shop drawings that our field electricians can build from. Providing field operations teams with high quality installable digital drawings (3D where possible) that account for field circumstances, physical site circumstances and meet NEC requirements is what gives our company the edge on large constructions. We are now contracted to deliver full building information models (total as-built drawings) and your career will be cutting edge working with these systems on some very large and challenging electrical constructions.

YOUR WORKING PAST AND A GOOD FIT IN THE JOB

• To be effective doing this job you have to have two professional skills/elements. One is electrical field construction experience and the other is CAD skills.

WHAT MAKES THIS A GOOD JOB TODAY AND TOMORROW

• Mixed environments with site survey and office engineering work.
• Mixed responsibilities (field survey, CAD engineering, operational interface, design enhancement, value engineering and support.)
• Upward mobility. Teams are being formed nationally and internationally. Leadership is needed now and will be needed moving forward.
• Mastery, even beta development of new technologies in BIM (building information modeling). BIM is the future; a fully coordinated 3D as-built facilities drawing set is what we will deliver.

We are a top national and international electrical specialties designer and builder (EPC) that is successful because we supply the field with the best tools which include beautifully designed prefabrications, quality tools and, or course, the installable CAD drawings. Our field team hits the job with real plans and we are looking for you to join our specialized group of professionals supplying those plans.

We are a business that has made money every year for more than fifty consecutive years. We are a respected and progressive business. We provide our employees with a career path and we are a place that there will be job advancement and significant technical advancement and learning in your career if you apply yourself and succeed for us.

We are operationally refined, we use the cutting edge tools and this group will be leading a critical function in our overall business as jobs get increasingly complex and as full 3D Building Information Modeling becomes a deliverable requirement. We are contracted to deliver BIM information on multiple projects now. If you are a project CAD engineer for technical electrical construction you need to be a part of our overall program.

ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• Interpret engineering, structural and architectural schematic drawings and produce CAD drawings for electrical constructions that can be installed as drawn, providing the greatest overall construction efficiency while meeting the applicable national electrical or other specialized code(s). You will be optimizing the pathways for the conduit and perhaps refining the design if you have the insight and experience to do so.
• Support the field operations. You will review sites and work with the superintendents to resolve field issues and develop workable solutions throughout the construction.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
 

• You know electrical construction and you know how a job is built in the field. Our best engineers in this department have been an electricians.
• You have designed conduit layouts for significant electrical constructions.
• You have a very good knowledge of the NEC.
• You are a good and efficient CAD operator.  3D experience would help us but we will hire you with 2D skills and you will become 3D proficient working with us.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

We design and build electrical power and low voltage systems for large facilities and institutions. We are the engineering firm and the electrical systems construction company merged together and we also perform commissioning. All of these services performed by our full time personnel. We routinely tackle work that can only be performed by a half dozen companies in the country, and we are awarded that kind of work because we have proven our ability to do the big and tough work for decades. We make money because we prepare before we build and we run under physical and financial control.

We have a world class CAD layout team that came from all corners of the industry. What all of us have in common is that we have refined the art of looking at physical circumstances in a facility and reviewing one lines or crude contract documents with panel schedules and homeruns and we have historically turned those incomplete and often unbuildable inputs into installable field drawings that meet code requirements when built out. You will look at the physical facilities, architectural and other coordinated trade drawings, and find a way to get the conduit, raceway, cable trays and duct bank through the structures and obstacles posed by all the other trades as efficiently as possible, and can create a detailed CAD drawing(s) that we will build from.

What we offer you something unique. The company is an old, large and privately owned electrical engineering plus construction firm. We do more design / build work than anything else, and the work is very sophisticated. You will see bigger and more challenging jobs here than anywhere. We are an electrical construction company merged with a large engineering firm and we have worked a long time to make those teams work together. The competition is not operating at our level.

We have engineering departments for every electrical and low voltage system in the building or facility that carries power or signals. Because of the depth and wide variety of design capacity here, we are able to take a lot of the work we do as the prime contractor. This is actually important to you, your career security, mobility and your financial well being because all of this is related to picking the right company to work with.

We are offering you a network of coworkers that include a genuine system of prominent engineers, designers, constructors and commissioning specialists the competition does not have. If a client needs all that we can offer, there is no real competition. This is what has helped us secure the good work, day after day, week after week and year after year. This business is as good a total capability as a client can put under contract to design and build a big facilities electrical, communications, security, and fire alarm systems. We will always be committed to the learning, training and change it takes to stay in that industry leadership position.

There are other things that make us a good home for you. For more than half of a century the company has progressively grown. We are one of the larger US electrical design/construct firms, and we have grown through all the dips and economic weak times. We have done diverse government and public works projects for more than fifty years, and some of the signed contracts we hold now go out five and in some cases even ten years. Beyond federal facilities work we do industrial work, water, wastewater, traffic and transit, airport, large scale commercial, telecom, IT, medical and very special security systems work.

This (the CAD Detail Engineering Department) is a team and a business unit within the greater whole of the company. The company feels like a separate company because we allow out business units to run in an intimate fashion. The CAD Detail Department has a quality leader and the culture he created makes life in our little business sector. Leadership is a good natured, fair and down to earth guy that came up through the trades wearing the tools. He listens, cares, he has a good sense of humor, a sense of life -work balance. Good boss.

When you combine our financial stability with exceptional management and great design and controls systems, you have a powerful business competitor. This is a place that can be a working home for life. From our perspective, if you are a good and committed design professional we would like to employ you to the end of your career and if you can be promoted we will always make the effort to identify your advancements and give you the opportunity to raise your level of responsibilities. We will also pay you for those advancements and additional responsibility you carry.

You can count on our system. We are a private one-owner company which means we are not giving away the profits to investors or shareholders. We have an approachable and accessible owner. We are not a family business which means you will not be tripping over people who are related to one another and you can never get ahead of. We are loyal, respectful and committed, and you can retire from here and have done well all along the way.

DOING THE JOB

• You will review physical sites, engineering drawings that may include architectural plans, mechanical plans, structural drawings, single line diagrams, riser diagrams, power and lighting plans, floor plans and construction documents submitted by our internal engineers and at times external engineering firms.
• You will work on creating and optimizing conduit pathways, routings, attachment and connectivity and detailing installation elevations so that the power, communications and life-safety systems distributions are the shortest path, most direct path, and free of unnecessary bends and hardware.
• You produce digital drawings using 2D and 3D CAD. The goal of your drawings is to direct the field team.
• You will work with the CAD drafting department, superintendents, foremen and project management providing a flow of good shop drawings to keep the crews and the jobs moving.
• You may be asked to attend coordination meetings and support negotiations for the best position possible situation for our team.
• You may be called to the field to help tackle tough, unanticipated problems.

• You are good at CAD. We use AutoDesk / AutoCAD, Revit  and MicroStation  systems. We are headed more and more towards 3D work so any 3D experience you have will help us.
• You have had real exposure to field electrical construction. The more you know the better. If you are an electrical superintendent that has become a CAD expert, your reflect a perfect combination for this position.
• You have excellent print reading and interpretation skills.
• You have knowledge about the use of the components and materials and the application of those components and materials.
• You have National Electrical CODE knowledge. The more the better.
• You have good mechanical aptitude and the knack for solving mechanical problems (the pathways). You have imagination.
• You have basic computer skills beyond CAD for programs like Excel, and Word.
• You have experience doing "redline" work.

Any additional electrical construction skills you have will increase your potential for growth and different assignments within the company and they are of interest to us so tell us about them. The more involved you were with the overall electrical construction in the past the better.

WORKING ENVIRONMENTS AND LOCATIONS

Generally speaking this is an office engineering position but you will be proximal to the project you are supporting so that you can survey the construction environment(s), attend coordination meetings, and work with the installation team. You may work at one of our permanent office locations, at times a site trailer, or at a desk on a site. We have divided the business into regions, this region servicing major constructions between the greater DC metro region and Baltimore. The team in question directly services a fifty mile radius around DC. We have locations covering the Eastern Seaboard and into the South West. As you work with us, you will have opportunity to look at other locations nationally and internationally if you are interested.

COMMUNICATE WITH US TO GET THE FACTS

To evaluate the job you need the facts. We contracted with an external consultant to help you collect the necessary information and to answer your specific questions. Our outside consultant is an electrical professional that knows this job and our business. The use of a consultant to talk to you first was done to eliminate the risk of privacy violation or exposing of your job search. ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL. If your personal exchange suggests that this position is not for you, none of your information at all will be moved forward.

We look forward to hearing from you.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

Base salaries range from $65,500.00 – 85,000.00 K (paid hourly) based on experience. There is always OT. There are great medical/dental/vision benefits and general benefits that include profit sharing, 401K with match, and merit bonus. We are a large company in a very competitive marketplace that has kept the team together and to help do that we have a good package. If you bring something unique to the table, we will review your requirements.

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