Electrical Engineer Team Lead

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

DLR Group operates within a hybrid work model, supporting flexibility between office time and work from home.

The best integrated design firm in the world has an opening for an Electrical Engineering Team Leader.

Location: Overland Park, KS

Position Summary:

As the Electrical Engineering Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading the design of electrical systems for buildings across a variety of sectors including K-12, Healthcare, Higher Education, Justice/Civic, Arts & Culture, and Energy. You will lead an electrical engineering team to produce high-quality construction documents using Revit and manage project schedules to meet deliverable requirements. As part of the integrated design team, you will collaborate closely with other disciplines to produce highly integrated building designs. Responsibilities include management of Electrical Engineers and Designers within your studio.

The successful candidate will:

• Manage operations, execution, and expectations for the Electrical Engineering Discipline in Overland Park, Kansas.
• Workplan electrical engineering projects and manage staff to execute work to the plan to achieve profitability goals.
• Assign duties, responsibilities, and projects to personnel, properly balancing staffing, and workload (team and personal to achieve profit and revenue growth goals.
• Schedule, facilitate and document meetings with staff and clients related to overall operations.
• Partner with sector and practice leadership to perform all personnel functions such as recruitment, training, and evaluation of personnel.
• Support business development initiatives by assisting the RFP process, participating in project interviews, and actively engaging in community and/or industry specific organization that will build the DLR Group brand.
• Maintain industry leading workplace practices to drive operating unit and culture towards a great place to work status.
• Develop electrical designs from concept through completion of construction, including engineering design calculations, detailed engineering reports and narratives, and coordination of electrical design requirements.
• Perform quality control of the electrical engineering plans and specifications.
• Direct or coordinate activities of personnel, vendors, and consultants.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering,,or equivalent.
• 7+ years' experience as an Electrical Engineer/Designer.
• Licensed Professional Engineer.
• Experience with BIM, specifically Revit MEP.
• Prior experience in leading teams of engineers.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing power, lighting, and low voltage building systems on complex projects.
• LEED Accredited Professional and previous experience participating in the LEED or other green rating system process.
• Experience and interest in sustainable building design.
• An appreciation and understanding of architectural design and how architects work and think.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.