Senior Electrical Engineer - Team Lead

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AECOM is seeking an experience Senior Electrical Engineer- Team Lead to be based in Chicago, IL.

About Buildings + Places:

Our Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy + (workplace consulting), 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. Our Chicago studio focuses on the Commercial/Corporate, Science and Technology, Higher Education and Federal market sectors. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.

Some of our recent projects include the new LA Clippers Arena, the Chicago Riverwalk, Autonomous Vehicle R&D Facilities, neighborhood resilience plans, cutting edge scientific research facilities, and global headquarters.

Job Description:

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

• Provides technical leadership and applies thorough and diversified knowledge of Electrical Engineering principles and practices to all projects.

• Responsible for customer satisfaction on AECOM’s performance. Regularly meets with customers to ensure that we are providing quality installations and meeting their individual needs.

• Electrical engineering from conceptual design through construction administration and post-occupancy

• Researches, develops, designs, specifies and witnesses the testing of electrical systems, equipment, components and materials, applying principles and techniques of Electrical Engineering

• Team and project discipline leadership including ownership of team metrics such as finances, utilization, and performance

• Serve as mentor by coaching and inspiring engineering teams and individuals; grows and develops staff

• Work with Managing Principal and Regional Engineering Leads to achieve business and practice goals

• Review team member work for quality and recognition of training requirements

• Interact and work with diverse set of clients and subcontractors

• Client account leadership, including development of client plans and the identification, positioning, pursuit and securing of new business.

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS + 8 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer (P.E.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to lead an engineering team in support of practice growth

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills including both verbal/presentation and written

• Proven ability to create and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external clients

• Documented experience with advanced design, and technically challenging design with high profile clients working to fast paced schedules

• Analyze equipment energy use for optimizing systems selection

• LEED accredited Professional with Sustainability experience

• Experience with Design Build and other Alternative Delivery practices

• Competent in all conventional aspects of Electrical Engineering and conducts work requiring judgment in the independent evaluation, selection and substantial adaptation and modification of standard Electrical Engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria

• Ability to think strategically, implement change, enforce policy and resolve conflict

• Excellent project planning, project management, organizational and time management skills

• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently

• Experience in the Corporate/Commercial, Higher Education and Healthcare markets

• Ability to concisely express complex system solutions in very early design phases in order to share intent either internally for further development, or externally to assist design partners

• Experience with AutoCAD/Revit (Revit is preferred)

• Ability to analyze and provide solutions to complex challenges

• Working knowledge of local and international codes, NEC and LEED standards

• Sponsorship is not available for this opportunity
• Offered rate of compensation (Illinois locations only) will be based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. The salary range for this position is $150,000- $185,000
• 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 and disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, wellness and global well-being, and global EAP, Business Travel and Service Awards programs.

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About AECOM

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.