Lead Electrical Engineer - Water/Wastewater

Why Black and Veatch

Black & Veatch allows you to lend your talent and perspective to humanity’s biggest challenges in a flexible environment where you are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities. We offer competitive compensation; 401K match and benefits that start day one.

At Black & Veatch, you own your career with purpose and meaning. You are empowered to grow and explore new possibilities at every step of your career journey. Bring your big ideas knowing you are safe to be who you are and speak up with concerns or questions and put your diverse talents and perspectives to use. #LI-AM1

The Opportunity

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead projects including management of project schedules, budgets, and staffing on the Water Solution team.
• Provide technical guidance on client standards and expectations to engineering and technician staff in the regional design centers that are supporting project detailed design.
• Serve as technical expert in electrical power distribution and miscellaneous plant electrical systems for client consultations.
• Support business development related to enhanced Electrical services.
• Build business relationships with clients to understand needs and drivers.
• Construction inspection and resolution of electrical construction issues.
• Coordination with local electrical utilities on project technical needs.
• Review of supplier submittals.
• Act as a liaison between the local design team, client and remote design teams for Instrumentation and Control design.
• Startup and testing of major electrical equipment.
• Continuous learning and development of technical expertise/specialty area.

This role will support projects for the Phoenix metropolitan area and West Coast Region of the United States. The ideal candidate will live in the Phoenix, AZ Metropolitan area.

The Team

As part of BV Operations, your skills will be aligned to projects that support our Governments & Communities market sector. BV’s Governments & Communities business works to provide innovative solutions and integrated planning, design and construction support for mission-critical facilities, as well as threat reduction and environmental services support worldwide. By joining our business, you will be able to provide infrastructure for community benefit through regulated utilities and government agencies.

This team partners with our customers to align their people, processes, technologies, and data analytics in the face of industry transformation. We help our customers leverage our industry-leading solutions and expertise to modernize water infrastructure, optimize asset use, meet performance goals, reduce costs, and mitigate risk no matter where the water industry goes next. This team is ranked in the top 10 by ENR for Water Design Firms in Water Supply and Sewer Waste and other water-related rankings.

Check out one of our recent projects: Tomahawk Wastewater Treatment Facility Expansion

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineer’s license in AZ or another US jurisdiction
• Ability to lead projects including management of project schedules, budgets, and staffing.
• Strong leaderships skills, with desire to train and develop early career and/or inexperienced professionals.
• 5+ years in electrical design, planning and construction services
• Consulting and Water/Wastewater experience preferred
• Experience in medium and low voltage power distribution equipment, including variable frequency drives and standby diesel generators   
• Understanding of PLC hardware and software setup, network configuration, HMI,  SCADA system, instrumentation and fiber optic cabling
• Experience in a client-facing/business development role
• Power system analysis experience in SKM, ETAP, or other analysis software a plus

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
• Minimum of 5 years related work experience.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Certifications

Most positions - depending on the nature of work performed as defined by the division - will typically require incumbents to have professional registration or licensure in their designated home office country, or be in active pursuit* of such registration

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.