Electrical Designer

Electrical Designer - Columbus Area (Semi-Remote)

You dream about electrical systems. You're passionate about utilities, manufacturing, industrial process, engineering design. You love to collaborate with a technically proficient team. And you never stop growing.

The Job

Our office in Dublin, Ohio is looking for an Electrical Designer to provide design, drafting, and CAD services to clients for their design projects either directly through on-site assignment or through the Salas O'Brien engineering and design project team. This position is based in our Dublin office and will have a hybrid schedule with some days in the office and some working remotely.

Specific responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Read, interpret, and apply standards, customer specifications, and standard drawing formats. Exhibit mastery of discipline design and drawing conventions.

Find and understand job requirements, visualize and design in three dimensions (3D), interpret customer job specific requirements.

Work from written and verbal instructions.

Access and efficiently utilize information contained in technical manuals, vendor and customer drawings, and previous designs.

Be proficient in CAD and manual drafting techniques.

Perform routine design calculations, interpret graphs, access and obtain information from tables and codebooks.

Perform effectively as a member of a design team.

Deliver a quality design product in the allotted time to support client project needs.

Effectively apply self-checking to work product.

Conduct work activities that affect the quality of engineering & design in accordance with Salas O'Brien's Quality Assurance Program.

Review and check the work of others.

Ascertain the correctness of inputs, question inconsistencies, and apparent errors and omissions.

Assist in documenting engineering inputs, time and material estimates.

Assist in project scoping.

Participate in the personal Employee Assessment & Development process.

Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the project team or deemed appropriate for the position by management.

Your Background

To succeed in this role, you need to meet the following basic requirements:

Associates or bachelor's degree in design or drafting

2-5 years of experience in electrical design

Solid understanding of electrical substation design, power transmission & distribution, and generating layout plans, electrical assemblies, and bills of materials. Must have experience working with AutoCAD as a design tool

Inventor experience strongly desired

Why Work for Salas O'Brien?

With a motto of "expect a difference," a compelling, ownership-driven culture, and offices around the country, Salas O'Brien draws the best engineering, architecture, and construction professionals in the country. We believe our attitude of ownership has profound impacts on how we treat each other and serve our clients.

We challenge you to find a firm with more opportunities for personal and professional growth than Salas O'Brien. Our many offices offer our team of employee-owners:

Variety of projects and clients

Collaboration with experts in your field

Growth opportunities within a local office or other Salas O'Brien offices

Awesome culture defined by our Ownership Values

Of course, we also offer outstanding benefits-everything you would expect for insurance and vacation time, plus incentives for sustainable living, professional education & licensure reimbursement, and flexible work scheduling at arrangement of your manager.

Equal Opportunity Employment Statement

Salas O'Brien is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals and in which personnel processes are merit-based and applied without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

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