Mid-Level Electrical Engineer - Clifton Park - Strategic Mission Critical

Description

Strategic Mission Critical:

At Strategic Mission Critical (SMC), we are more than just engineers; we are experts focusing solely on mission critical facilities. Our seasoned leadership team brings together decades of experience, equipping data center providers worldwide with robust, reliable solutions that keep pace with the evolving digital landscape.

With a rapidly expanding market and the anticipated increase in demand driven by AI advancements, SMC is at the forefront of industry growth. We offer not just jobs, but career paths that reward innovation and expertise. If you want to work alongside highly skilled professionals with years of mission critical experience, then we want you to be part of a team, a team that works on major projects for top-tier data center providers. Your work will ensure the resilience and efficiency of data infrastructure that millions depend on.

Position Opening:

SMC is actively looking for a Mid-Level Electrical Engineer to execute electrical design for mission critical projects. Typical project types may include design of greenfield and brownfield data center facilities, design of fit-out packages for hyperscale and enterprise clients of colocation providers, data center campus planning, conceptual designs and feasibility studies, and power systems studies such as Neher-McGrath, short circuit, coordination, and arc flash.

This candidate shall be capable of executing basic electrical design projects independently, taking established design criteria through generation of design plans and specifications for permitting and construction. The candidate shall also be capable as serving as a key contributor in part of a larger electrical design team on large and/or complex mission critical projects under the guidance of a senior engineer. The electrical design scope will be a part of a broader project and therefore this candidate should be capable of interfacing with design leads within SMC (mechanical, telecommunications, fire protection, plumbing) as well as externally including architectural, civil, structural, etc.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable mentoring recent graduates and junior designers and engineers, reviewing the work of others, and collaborating with senior engineers to implement broad project goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

This candidate will have the opportunity to execute electrical design of various project types while working and coordinating with clients and design leads from all disciplines, as well as serve as the daily lead on smaller projects. This candidate shall have the ability to communicate effectively with co-workers and with clients while being able to meet scheduled project deadlines.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Design electrical infrastructure for mission critical buildings and campuses including medium voltage distribution; highly redundant power systems including various redundancy topologies such as distributed and block redundant; on-site generation and UPS backup; typical building systems such as small power, lighting, grounding, and fire alarm.
• Coordinate with all internal and external disciplines for required electrical power connections.
• Coordinate monitoring system interfaces for electrical equipment with controls and telecommunications engineers.
• Be familiar with the basics of electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS).
• Be capable of reviewing and understanding client standards, design criteria, applicable standards, and best practices in order to apply them to a design project.
• Understand local and national construction codes and project specifications.
• Utilize Autodesk Revit on a daily basis to produce detailed design documents.
• Have experience with the use of Microsoft tools such as Word, Power Point, Excel, and Teams.
• Meet project deadlines, including working necessary hours to complete major deliverables.
• Have the ability to travel when required to project sites (approximately 10-20% travel).
• Have the ability to clearly communicate with others in both written and spoken forms.
• Lead junior engineers, designers, and modelers, and coordinate the tasks of small project teams to execute delivery of specific design elements.
• Mentor and train junior engineers, designers and modelers to assist in developing electrical design knowledge base.
• Maintain excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4-year degree in electrical engineering or architectural engineering with an electrical focus preferred. 2-year degrees and EET degrees with work experience will be considered.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in facility electrical design, particularly using Autodesk Revit for drawing development.
• Experience in electrical design for larger industrial and commercial buildings is preferred, with experience in mission critical design a plus.
• Experience performing and reviewing power studies such as Neher-McGrath, short circuit, coordination, and arc flash is a plus. Familiarity with these studies is preferred.
• Experience working across the entire construction process, from schematic design through construction administration, including review of submittals and shop drawings, and field work such as existing condition surveys, site observations, and punch lists.
• Experience leading small electrical design teams and having some client interface experience is preferred.
• Experience using construction management tools such as Procore and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
• Basic understanding of power monitoring systems for electrical systems is a plus.
• Engineer-in-Training (EIT) or Professional Engineer (PE) preferred.

COMPENSATION:

Base Compensation: $90,000-$225,000 (Actual compensation is subject to variation due to factors such as education, experience, skills and/or location)

SMC offers a competitive benefits package, with a 36-hour standard work week, hybrid working arrangement, 13 paid holidays, 100% coverage of medical, health, and dental insurance premiums for our full-time employees, and reimbursement of professional licensing costs. Spouse and family insurance premiums are subsidized by SMC. All full-time employees are additionally eligible for employer-sponsored life and long-term disability insurance as well as participation in our 401(k) plan, with annual safe harbor contribution.