Principal Electrical Engineer - SCIF

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to lead the design and delivery of complex federal facilities for U.S. Government agencies. In this role, you will serve as a Federal Subject Matter Expert (SME), leading electrical design across multiple concurrent projects while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and federal clients.

You will provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, mentor junior staff, and support the delivery of resilient, sustainable, and high-quality electrical systems. The role requires approximately 20% travel for site visits and client engagement.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead electrical design teams and mentor junior staff in the delivery of coordinated, construction-ready design packages.
• Lead the electrical design of federal facilities, including projects supporting USACE, NAVFAC, and other U.S. Government agencies.
• Design resilient and redundant electrical systems for complex and mission-critical facilities.
• Deliver Issued for Construction (IFC) design packages that meet project scope, schedule, quality, and technical requirements.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle, including project budgets, proposals, schedules, staffing plans, and resource allocation.
• Support business development activities and build relationships with federal, state, and local government clients.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable federal and industry standards, including UFC, UFGS, NFPA, NEC, NESC, NETA, ANSI, IEEE, and UL.
• Use electrical design and modeling software such as Revit, AutoCAD, SpecsIntact, SKM, EDSA, EasyPower, and ETAP.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Active Professional Engineer (PE) license in the U.S.
• Minimum of 10 years of consulting engineering experience in facility design, including significant experience supporting federal government projects.
• Demonstrated experience delivering IFC design packages for federal facilities.
• U.S. Citizenship required for federal project work.
• Must be located within the Greater U.S. Capital Region.
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and technical writing skills.

Preferred:

• Experience supporting USACE, NAVFAC, or other Department of Defense projects.
• Experience designing secure or mission-critical facilities, including SCI spaces and ICD 705 requirements.
• Familiarity with NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS environments.
• PE licensure in multiple states.
• Advanced experience with ETAP and other electrical power system analysis tools.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $170,000 - $220,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.