Electrical Principal Engineer

We are currently seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to join our Raleigh office, where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our electrical engineering projects.

In this key position, you will provide operational and technical guidance to our design teams across all areas of electrical engineering, ensuring that we meet and exceed client expectations and budgetary goals. You will collaborate with a talented team of engineers on a diverse array of private, public, and federal projects, working closely with architectural, mechanical, structural, and other disciplines to deliver comprehensive solutions to our local and regional clients. Your expertise will be essential in providing the operational and technical direction necessary to fulfill our commitments with excellence. You will report directly to the Chief Electrical Engineer.

Dewberry’s Raleigh, NC office includes over 200 design professionals, including a large Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Structural (MEPS) Group focused on design services for clients in North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina. Our experience includes all major healthcare systems, higher education, K-12 schools, central plants/infrastructure, and more. Raleigh’s MEPS group contains subject matter experts in leadership roles in all major professional organizations such as ASHE, ASHRAE, etc. Our repeat clients include most of the largest hospital systems, universities, and state, local, and federal government agencies. Our MEPS service line is ranked #30 Nationally among MEP Giants and our local Raleigh office is ranked #3 by size in engineering firms in the Triangle.

Join us at Dewberry and be part of a team that is not only shaping the built environment but also making a lasting impact in the communities we serve!

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors is our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Provide high-level direction to senior electrical engineering staff to allow the Business Unit/Office to effectively operate and successfully complete projects, including:

• Office Operations: Supervise all electrical department managers within an office or business unit for successful intra-office operations, by actively helping those department managers that report to you smoothly run their departments.
• Service Line Operations: Assist the Chief Electrical Engineer leading MEPS Service Line’s electrical community of practice to ensure successful inter-office electrical operations, by actively participating in the community of practice events and performing delegated tasks from the Chief.
• Quality Management: Ensure electrical department managers are consistently applying and complying with corporate quality management processes and procedures.
• Technical Management: Ensure electrical department managers are providing timely and adequate guidance and quality oversight, including code review, of all project work involving electrical engineering.
• Staff Development Oversight: Ensure electrical department managers are providing adequate technical training and development of staff by providing guidance and mentoring of managers.
• Standards Development Oversight: Ensure electrical department managers are establishing and improving standards, practices, guidelines, and specifications for their electrical discipline area. Principal shall lead the development of their office electrical standards and coordinate those standards through the Chief Engineer across offices.
• Engineer of Record on select projects as needed.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions - technical and cost estimates. Principal engineer is the top electrical engineer in an office unless electrical issue involves other offices in the service line then the Chief Engineer presides.
• Coordinates with client/project managers and department managers within an office to resolve electrical engineering conflicts.
• Office Organizational Management: Assist Office/Business Unit Manager to ensure successful office operations, including advice on staff organizational structure and office procedures.

• Accomplished electrical engineer/PE with 25+ years of progressive technical and staff management experience in the design of power distribution, lighting, life safety, and telecommunications systems
• Experience should include technical oversight of multiple projects with proven success, providing technical oversight on projects that meet contract specifications and technical standards to the client on time and within budget
• Strong leader with a track record of building and maintaining electrical department operations
• Self-motivated with highly developed verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.   

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.

Notice to Third Party Recruiters:  Dewberry only compensates job placement recruiters that have a valid Dewberry-approved written agreement in place for recruiting services. Dewberry does not compensate third party recruiters for unsolicited job placement candidate information.

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