Project Low Voltage Designer

About the Role

EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm. We are looking for a Project Low Voltage Designer to join our team in our Philadelphia or Wayne office.

This role is responsible for the design and documentation of Low Voltage (Telecom, Security and AV) Systems on major projects. The position supports project delivery from concept through construction, coordinating across disciplines, managing responsibilities across multiple projects, and identifying potential risks. The Project Low Voltage Designer also contributes to project planning, including estimating hours and overall project scope, and provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Guiding the modeling and creation of drawings used to accurately deliver projects.
• Reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership.
• Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design.
• Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget.
• Knowledge of local and national building and material specific codes, ensuring project designs and construction documents comply with applicable codes.
• Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of company standards, including participation in QA/QC reviews.
• Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals.
• Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project.
• Selecting equipment and identifying appropriate applications that consider system performance and project requirements.
• Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements.
• Determining and applying calculation and analysis models to evaluate engineering conditions and guide project design decisions.
• Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs.
• Communicating engineering design intent, technical decisions, and system impacts effectively to clients, consultants, and project teams.
• Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the system design.
• Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion.
• Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Revit
• AutoCAD
• Bluebeam
• Microsoft Suite

Qualifications

• Minimum of an Associate’s degree or technical school certification in a related field, or 10+ years of field experience installing/designing applicable systems.
• RCDD and/or CISSP and/or CTS-D preferred.