Senior Electrical Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for electrical scope on assigned power generation projects, setting design direction and quality standards for the team.
• Bring deep, hands-on power plant design experience to bear on complex electrical systems for coal, natural gas, and combined cycle generation facilities.
• Mentor, train, and develop less experienced engineers, including reviewing their calculations, drawings, and design decisions.
• Manage and lead teams of electrical engineers to complete assigned activities, including workload planning and task delegation.
• Direct and support project teams and engineering staff overseas as part of Redtree's global CSI network, ensuring consistent design quality and coordination across time zones.
• Develop electrical schematics, one-line diagrams, and equipment layouts for power generation facilities and associated auxiliary systems.
• Design and specify medium- and high-voltage electrical systems including switchgear, substations, transformers, protective relaying, grounding systems, and utility interconnections, as well as protection and control (P&C) systems for generation and substation applications.
• Coordinate with equipment manufacturers and vendors to develop equipment specifications and resolve technical issues during design and procurement.
• Perform electrical system studies including load flow, short-circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding, cable ampacity, harmonic, and transient analyses using ETAP or equivalent software.
• Support control system integration and plant automation initiatives for both new-build and modernization projects.
• Prepare and review engineering design packages to ensure compliance with applicable codes, industry standards, and client specifications.
• Coordinate with mechanical, civil, structural, controls, and project management teams to develop integrated and constructible solutions.
• Support construction administration and startup activities, primarily through remote review of compliance submittals, technical direction, and resolution of construction issues, with occasional site visits as needed.
• Support proposal development, scoping, budgeting, and schedule estimation for new opportunities.
• Develop technical specifications, calculations, reports, and drawing packages throughout all project phases, including feasibility studies, conceptual design, detailed engineering, construction support, and commissioning.
• Lead development-support and owner's-engineer work, such as technical due diligence and design reviews, as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license required.
• 10+ years of hands-on electrical design experience specifically within the power generation industry, including coal, natural gas, gas-fired, and/or combined cycle power plants.
• Demonstrated track record designing electrical systems for power plants, including medium- and high-voltage distribution, switchgear, substations, and protection and control systems.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, training, or leading other engineers, including reviewing their technical work.
• Have experience with low, medium, and high-voltage power distribution systems, critical electrical infrastructure, and electrical equipment selection.
• Possess working knowledge of protection and control systems, relay coordination, switchgear design, and transformer applications.
• Have experience performing electrical studies using ETAP or similar analysis software.
• Demonstrate familiarity with applicable industry standards and codes, including NEC, IEEE, NFPA, NESC, and utility requirements.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to coordinate across multidisciplinary project teams and represent electrical scope to clients.
• Willingness to travel to project/construction sites as needed (estimated to be 10-20%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directing or coordinating with engineering staff or project teams overseas, or in distributed/multi-time-zone environments.
• Experience supporting plant modernization, life extension, retrofit, or uprate projects.
• Experience with hyperscale, colocation, or enterprise data center developments.
• Experience with mission-critical electrical systems and redundancy architectures, including N, N+1, and 2N configurations.
• Experience with medium-voltage distribution systems, substations, and utility interconnections.
• Familiarity with renewable energy, battery energy storage systems (BESS), microgrids, or behind-the-meter power solutions.
• Familiarity with advanced power systems studies, such as EMT modeling and transient analysis.

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