Freelance Audio Visual Design Engineer Jobs in Kentucky

Are you a motivated and creative Electrical Engineer with a passion for innovation, sustainable design and environmental responsibility? Join a leading design firm! GRW has a career opportunity available for a Registered Electrical Engineer at our Lexington, KY, headquarters.

GRW is a full-service engineering, architectural, and geospatial consulting firm. The company was founded in 1964 by Mr. G. Reynolds Watkins to provide engineering services to federal, state, municipal, and private industry clients. Since that time, GRW has grown to become a national design firm with offices in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Mr. Watkins' insistence on technical excellence and personal service lives on as the guiding principle at GRW. This dedication to service has resulted in repeat clients providing 90 percent of GRW's current workload! Principals and associates representing many disciplines work one-on-one with clients. Close, personal service is the hallmark of GRW's business philosophy.

As an electrical design engineer, you will work closely with architectural, mechanical and structural department colleagues on a variety of projects. GRW offers a wide variety of engineering services for our clients' infrastructure and building design projects. Our multidiscipline personnel function as a cohesive design team to create local and regional utility systems, energy-efficient building components, environmentally sensitive site developments, and safe, modern transportation facilities. GRW provides comprehensive technical resources for all types of infrastructure designs. GRW's assignments range in scope from planning studies to projects with construction costs in excess of $985 million. GRW's teams have designed projects ranging from a few thousand square feet to campuses with gross building area over 600,000 SF. Our building designs encompass the latest power and lighting systems for LED, telecommunications, audio/visual, electrical power distribution and other systems. These high-performance projects frequently pursue Net Zero Energy and LEED certification. Because of our in-house team, GRW has capability to successfully plan, design and deliver large, complex projects, as easily as smaller projects.

While our revenues have earned us Engineering News-Record Top 500 rankings over the years, what keeps us on top is our quality of service. Our approach is simple. Our corporate culture is one of close collaboration among our multidisciplinary project teams, combined with strong management leadership. Regardless of size or complexity, we use our diverse insights and perspectives to move projects forward in a timely and cost-effective manner, while using clear and open lines of communication. We are also proud of GRW's large amount of repeat business. For example, since 1964 GRW has provided services to one of our very first clients, Keeneland, a combination Thoroughbred racecourse and sales company located in the heart of Kentucky's famed Bluegrass Region. The quality of our work is demonstrated in the numerous awards our projects have won, both on national and state levels.

GRW offers a challenging work environment combining the latest in engineering concepts with career development to keep personnel up to date with the latest technologies and advancements. Your personal capabilities, interest, aptitude, and motivation will determine your professional growth.

GRW is seeking the following qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from an ABET Accredited Program
• Professional Engineer Registration in at least one State
• Ability to seek reciprocity with other State Registration Boards
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing and providing construction administration for facilities as a design consultant (more experience is desirable)
• Knowledge of Military, Justice, or water treatment desirable
• Basic knowledge of building, electrical, fire codes and standards to determine engineering calculations, equipment sizing and selection for different voltage systems
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Microsoft Office, and Revit desirable
• VisualPro and/or AGI32 experience desirable
• SKM PowerTools for Windows experience desirable
• Past facilitation of LEED Certification or Green Globes desirable
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills
• High level of organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to plan project resources, maintain schedules and stay within budget
• Ability to work well independently and as part of a team
• Desire, motivation and ability to exceed the firm's and clients' expectations
• Dedication and willingness to continue professional growth

We are looking for individuals eager to develop their technical skills and work on teams with other dedicated employees to complete the projects our clients need. Hiring the most qualified employees is important to us and the success of our company.

When you join GRW you'll be working for an award-winning, full-service design consulting firm with a history of more than 60 years serving our regional, national, and occasionally international clients. Our objective is simple. We value our employees and take pride in providing them with the proper resources and tools to help them achieve professional excellence.

This type of opportunity does not become available often! We invite you to apply to join our team!

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