Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

At Haskell, you’re not just joining a company—you’re joining a nationally recognized Top Workplace where diverse perspectives and inclusive thinking drive stronger outcomes. Whether you’re starting out, growing your expertise, or leading the way, you’ll find a culture grounded in trust, driven by excellence, and built to support your goals. Here, you’ll have the opportunity, flexibility, and sense of belonging to grow your career your way—while making a real impact.

What is in it for you?

• Diverse Project Experience: You will work on challenging projects across multiple industries, including healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, and manufacturing in hopes of a broad and fulfilling career experience.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Grow your leadership skills while mentoring a team of talented engineers. You will play a critical role in fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
• Impactful Work: From designing essential infrastructure to enhancing complex industrial systems, your contributions will have a lasting impact on communities and industries alike.
• Professional Development: Take advantage of opportunities for continuing education, licensure support, and leadership development to advance your career.
• Flexible Work Environment: Enjoy a hybrid schedule that allows you to balance remote work on Mondays and Fridays with in-office collaboration in our Charlotte office Tuesdays through Thursdays.

Scope of Position

Senior Associate is a senior level engineering position that exemplifies design and project delivery leadership. The primary responsibilities are leading and delivering completed designs on assigned projects, including coordination, client communication and construction administration. Responsibilities also include the supervision of staff assigned to the project, ensuring staff utilization, managing project budget and schedule. This position will assist the Lead Associate on various tasks to ensure success of the discipline within the business unit.

Job Responsibilities

• Application of Knowledge of Building Systems (Conceptual Design)
  • Has a complete working knowledge of code including but not limited to: NFPA 70, 72, 101, 110, 780; UL 96A; and Building Codes
  • Working knowledge of building requirements for special occupancies
  • Works with building/facility owner to ensure that the appropriate systems/products are utilized in their facility.
  • Complete knowledge the design of power distribution, medium voltage and below
  • Complete knowledge of the application of emergency systems, legally required systems and optional standby systems.
  • Fully coordinates the connections of all power utilization component connections
  • Working knowledge of grounding design, proper application
  • Working knowledge of lightning protection design, proper application, system types
• Lighting design, system types, and understanding of the following concepts:
  • Pros and cons for system applications
  • Application of color temperatures
  • Lighting rules such as spacing to mounting height ratio, manual point to point calculations, impact of horizontal and vertical foot-candles
  • Life safety requirements (egress and exit marking)
  • Applications of various control systems
• Documentation of calculations, reflecting code compliance of the following:
  • Lighting calculations
  • Power load calculations
  • Short circuit and voltage drop calculations
  • Coordination studies
  • Fire alarm design
  • Smoke detection design
    • Smoke detection systems
    • Smoke detections applications
  • Other system interconnections
  • Device layout
• Telecommunications design
  • Systems types
  • Understanding of the EIA/TIA standards
• Security
  • Card access system design, system types, functional procedures
  • CCTV system design, system types
  • Intrusion detection systems design, system types and applications
• Paging and intercommunication systems design, system types and applications
• Detail Design
  • Performs analysis of proposed and potential systems to present Value Engineering options to the facility owner for their consideration for the incorporation into the project.
  • Ensures that there are complete and accurate construction documents
  • Ensures that there are complete and accurate specifications
  • Understands and is able to manage design software
• Design Project Execution
  • Prepares design estimates for assigned projects
  • Supervision of the staff assigned to the projects, ensuring optimal staff utilization
  • Overseeing the work performed by the assigned staff
  • Provides direction for what is to be included in design package issues
  • Works with Design/Engineering Managers to ensure that project schedule will be met and complete documents are provided for each submission.
  • Develops project within provided design budget and advises additional design fees whenscope is expanded.
• Construction Administration
  • Complete understanding of construction project execution process
  • Supports construction efforts by overseeing preparation of any required field orders, addenda or other drawing updates
  • Problem solving for field oversight including Requests for Information (RFI)
  • Shop drawing/Submittal review
  • Field observations and reports
• Professional Development
  • Maintains required licensing CEU by proactively seeking training to expand knowledge
• Leadership
  • Manages assigned staff on the projects
  • Provides coaching/mentoring of assigned staff promoting individual growth
  • Engages entire electrical team working with all team members.
  • Flexible and willing to quickly move between projects as needed to assist in meeting overall project schedules
• Travel as required (typically day trips, and usually no more than three days a month)

Education & Years of Experience

• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree required
• 8+ years experience within the electrical engineering discipline as well as project experience on a variety of projects from simple to complex and small to large.

Qualifications

• Licensed Professional Engineer required

At Haskell, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, professional development opportunities, and more. Join us and be part of a team where your contributions make a difference.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, team members may be required to visit alternate locations and therefore must have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to do so. This position requires the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds. Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand, and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard, operate equipment and read application/form information. The team member is frequentlyrequired to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities:

Haskell will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008. The job description will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessity. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.

Haskell is a Drug-Free Workplace, and an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.