Senior Electrical Engineer - Mission Critical

Burns & McDonnell is a company made up of more than 10,000 engineers, architects, construction professionals, scientists, consultants, and entrepreneurs with offices across the country and throughout the world. Project focus would be mission-critical data center projects. This opportunity hires directly into our Mission Critical team and into a multibillion-dollar industry that is growing at an exponential rate. Data Centers are an aggressive market for Burns & McDonnell and are highlighted by several priority articles on our site. Mission Critical is an international practice for Burns & McDonnell that involves exciting, collaborative work across many different departments.

This position requires an experienced electrical engineer capable of successfully solving difficult problems that require adaptation and modification of standard techniques, procedures and criteria. This candidate will lead design, planning and client coordination activities associated with high, medium and low voltage electrical distribution and control systems found in mission critical, healthcare, and industrial sites.

Key responsibilities:

Designs electrical systems/equipment to provide a useful and safe environment for the Mission Critical market in accordance with the clients' requirements for reliability and uptime.

Advises clients regarding electrical systems/requirements available to meet their needs and comply with all applicable codes.

Monitors installation of designed equipment/systems to ensure compliance with design documents.

Conducts fault studies and load flow analysis. Develop design criteria for protective device coordination, relay applications, medium voltage transformers, switchgear, medium and low voltage distribution.

Able to develop and/or lead the design of electrical master plans for facilities encompassing but not limited to the following: reliable power distribution, motor control centers, energy-efficient lighting systems, communications and telecom routing, instrumentation and controls for HVAC systems, fire-alarm interface, building level uninterrupted power systems (UPS) systems, engine generators.

Reviews electrical designs and specifications of equipment or systems being purchased or fabricated.

Provides electrical design direction and resource management on multi-discipline projects.

Developing concept studies, designs, and narratives.

Participate in the Identification, recruiting and management of resources to meet the needs of the business

All other duties as assigned.