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Senior Electrical Engineer

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Austin, TX, USA
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The Senior Electrical Engineer will lead electrical system designs from concept through construction for various building types, ensuring coordination with other design disciplines, and contributing to documentation and objectives.
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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 has an opening for a Senior Electrical Engineer. 

Position Summary:

As a Senior Electrical Engineer at DLR Group, you will lead the design of electrical systems from initial schematics through construction administration across a diverse range of building types. Working as part of our integrated design teams, you will help create environments that enhance the human experience. Your role includes contributing to the development of electrical building systems and producing detailed engineering drawings and calculations. You will guide the electrical design for projects in sectors such as K–12 education, higher education, justice and civic facilities, arts and culture, workplace environments, and sports venues.

The successful candidate will:

  • Assist in developing project objectives, goals, and documentation policies.
  • Develop electrical designs from concept through completion of construction.
  • Prepare engineering design calculations and layouts.
  • Prepare detailed engineering reports and narratives.
  • Coordinate electrical design requirements with architecture, mechanical, and other disciplines.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
  • 10+ years experience as an Electrical Designer designing power and lighting building systems on complex projects.
  • Licensed Professional Engineer.
  • Proven experience as an Electrical Engineer designing power and lighting building systems on complex projects.
  • Experience with BIM, specifically Revit MEP.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 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.
DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

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


DLR Group Austin, Texas, USA Office

816 Congress Ave, #1600, Austin, United States, 78701

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