Senior Electrical Engineer at Freese and Nichols, Inc. — Fort Worth, TX

Freese and Nichols is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for Dallas or Fort Worth, Texas. As an Electrical Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical authority for complex electrical design work across water and wastewater projects while helping define technical direction, deliver high-quality results, and support technical growth in the team. This role is intended for the firm’s most complex and highest-risk electrical work.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide firm-level technical leadership for electrical design and electrical systems for water and wastewater systems including commissioning, resilience, and risk decisions
• Assist in defining technical direction for the Industrial Power Team, including standards, design frameworks, design standards, specification strategy, review expectations, and ensure accountability
• Guide Electrical design, integration, commissioning, sequencing, startup, and workload approaches for pump station, water and wastewater projects
• Coach and mentor junior electrical staff
• Advise project managers, team leaders, client-service leaders, and executive leadership on technical strategy, risk mitigation, staffing approach, fee preparation, and recovery actions
• Serve as a senior advisor to internal and external clients, owners, project teams, and firm leadership on complex technical issues, disputes, claims support, and innovation initiatives
• Provide QA/QC for Electrical deliverables, technical reviews, standards details, and standard specifications
• Provide root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and lessons learned
• Lead coordination across the Electrical group, process, electrical, mechanical, civil, structural, and operations on major projects
• Represent the firm externally through industry leadership, committees, technical guidance, publications, presentations, and client forums

# Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, architectural engineering, computer engineering, or another engineering discipline relevant to Electrical Power design from an ABET-accredited program
• Active Professional Engineer license (P.E.)
• 6+ years of relevant experience in Electrical Power for Water and Wastewater Systems, knowledge of SCADA, instrumentation design, or related technical design work is a plus.
• Recognized technical authority with significant impact on standards, quality, innovation, risk controls, and complex Electrical design for water and wastewater systems
• Advanced knowledge of engineering drawings, specifications, electrical systems for water and wastewater systems, commissioning, and construction documentation
• Experience developing complex electrical systems from conceptional to final including duct bank routing and layouts, control wiring diagrams, one-line diagram, and construction costs
• Experience establishing QA/QC expectations, technical review practices, standards application, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and quality improvement
• Executive-level communication skills with clients, leadership, project teams, contractors, vendors, and interdisciplinary stakeholders
• Working knowledge of standards such as NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, UL 508A, NEMA MG-1, IEEE 519, NFPA 820

Preferred

• PE licensure in multiple jurisdictions served by the firm
• Experience serving as responsible licensed engineer or engineer of record for critical or high-risk I&C scope
• Experience establishing, standards, innovation, specification strategy, QA/QC systems, risk controls, training, and delivery frameworks
• Leadership in the electrical industry, presentations for conferences/seminars or white papers, member of a professional committee, or electrical standards committee

# About Freese and Nichols

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