Electrical Engineer

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking motivated, technically-experienced team leader to serve as Electrical Engineer based in Minneapolis, MN; Detroit, MI; or Grand Rapids, MI.

AECOM was recently recognized by Fortune Magazine as the World’s Most Admired Company in our industry, and has a 100% Corporate Equity index rating by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. We are ranked the #1 Environmental Firm and the #1 Global Design Firm by Engineering News Record. Examples of work in our Great Lakes practice includes work with national labs, metro transit facilities, a county health clinic, and a campus electrification and decarbonization study. Our Michigan offices are embarking on a county-wide electrification and decarbonization study.  Our unique combination of architectural engineering, transportation engineering, and environmental scientists means we work on the most unique and interesting projects in the industry! If you’re curious about what a career at AECOM could look like, please get in touch.

Our Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, sustainability and decarbonization consulting, urbanism, planning and strategy, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management.  This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create.

AECOM’s dedication to sustainability is embedded in our culture. AECOM is committed to striving for better by reducing emissions and lowering energy use. Our sustainable legacies strategy has four key objectives: embed sustainable development and resilience across the company’s work, improve social outcomes for communities, achieve net-zero carbon emissions and enhance governance. We are leading the change towards a more sustainable future by creating innovative tools to guide early-stage infrastructure decisions for cities, airports, transportation systems, water treatment and buildings.  Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Job Description

• Provides technical leadership for a specialty and is considered to be an expert professional in their field. 
• Applies intensive and diversified knowledge of engineering principles and practices in broad areas of assignments and related fields.
• Assist in Making decisions on technical problems and methods and represents the organization in conferences.
• Resolves important questions and plans and coordinates work. 
• Requires the use of advanced techniques and the modifications and extension of theories, precepts and practices of the field and related sciences and disciplines. 
• Supervision and guidance relate largely to overall objectives, critical issues, new concepts, and policy matters. 
• Receives direction on unusual conditions and developments.
• This position will involve working with a multidisciplinary team who work together to conceive, permit, design and provide construction administration support for small and large projects.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Designs power distribution systems, microgrids, lighting systems, etc.
• Performs Construction Administration services, including review of shop drawings, RFI’s and review of contractor proposed change orders
• Evaluates feasibility of alternative design approaches in conjunction with senior team members
• Performs site/ field visits to ascertain existing conditions including equipment condition evaluations
• Organizes/plans projects to ensure quality controls and project criteria are met and within budget
• Assists in preparing proposals and presenting to Clients
• Acts as an assistant to the Electrical Department Manager with workload planning
• Assists with mentoring of junior staff within the Electrical Department

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field + 4 years of related experience and/or education 
• EIT 
• Valid Driver's License

Preferred Qualifications :

• Professional Engineer (PE)
• Proficient in SKM and electrical analysis software
• 6+ years of electrical systems design experience
• Proficiency using AutoCAD and Revit
• Ability to interact with others on a multi-discipline team
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once
• Good time management skills, a strong work ethic and attention to detail
• People management experience a plus
• NCEES Record
• Excellent Communications Skills with the ability to present designs to clients
• Additional Industry Certifications such as LEED AP or CEM

Additional Information

• Sponsorship is available for this role
• Relocation is available for this role 

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.