Assistant Electrical Designer Jobs in Washington

Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson is a dynamic, 100% employee-owned consulting firm with more than 2,800 professionals, providing a full range of multidisciplinary engineering, architecture, information technology, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. JMT is currently ranked #45 on Engineering News-Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms.

Position summary: Responsible for overseeing electrical aspects of construction projects, ensuring compliance with plans, specifications, and safety regulations. This role involves supervising construction activities, quality control, and progress monitoring, while also maintaining communication with the project team. Responsible for overseeing electrical designs, including SCADA for facility and transit projects. This role requires full design responsibility including scoping, calculations, drawings and specifications for materials, construction execution, as well as testing, controls and commissioning.  Expected projects may be include power projects in addition to systems controls.

Compensation for this position is $104,000.00 - $141,440.00, commensurate with experience, education and certifications. The provided range is a good faith estimate based on the requirements described within the job description. We notice that we receive a wide variety of applicants and recognize that the person selected may be less experienced or more experienced. If so, the actual salary range may vary from the estimate provided.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Maintains full familiarity with plans, specifications, construction schedules, and contractor's plans on assigned contracts, the Project Management Plan (PMP), and current safety regulations to be knowledgeable of the project team (i.e., client, consultants, and multiple contractors) responsibilities
• Provide electrical engineering support to client’s project implementation team
• Provides technical expertise related to engineering and constructability, statements of work, cost estimates, proposal reviews, project schedules, change requests, and other items during pre- construction, procurement, construction, and testing and commissioning
• Coordinates engineering and implementation in accordance with plans and specifications
• Documents and oversees processes and projects, ensuring conformance with clients approved procedures and all internal and external project requirements
• Evaluates design and construction for potential risks, develops alternative courses of action, and makes recommendations
• Assist in the preparation of final decision documentation for the COTR
• Reviews contractor payment requests and internal project costs and makes recommendations
• Reports on project status and communicates with client’s internal stakeholders
• Perform other related tasks assigned by the client and contract manager 

Nonessential functions and responsibilities

• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Written and communication skills

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field
• A minimum of ten (10) years of construction or related electrical engineering experience with no less than five (5) years specific to SCADA design criteria and standards, and at least two (2) of the ten (10) years in the transit industry
• Demonstrated SCADA specific experience in heavy rail transit systems and AC Room Passenger stations
• Demonstrated experience with Autodesk® software suite
• Knowledgeable with Microsoft 365®
• Physical ability to access any of the locations and perform a hands-on inspection, if required
• Must have previous field experience
• OSHA 10-hour Construction certification

Preferred Experience

• PE license, Certified Construction Manager (CCM), or Certified Professional Contractor (CPC) are desirable but not required
• Familiarity with rail/transit design criteria and standards
• Proficiency in Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, and Procore

Working Conditions

Work is performed within a general office environment 95% of the time. Work is generally sedentary in nature, but may require occasional standing and walking. Lighting and temperature are adequate and there are no hazardous or unpleasant conditions caused by noise, dust, etc. within the office environment. 

Field work is required on occasion where work may be conducted outside in heat/cold, wet/humid, and dry/arid conditions. Some lifting (up to 25 lbs) may be required as needed.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.