ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Position Description

Designs, upgrades, inspects, and maintains the electrical distribution system in accordance with National Electrical Code and National Electrical Safety Code standards to provide reliable electrical service to customers. Responsible for coordinating and performing engineering design for major construction projects and maintaining an accurate electronic model of the Electrical Distribution Information System (EDIS).

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as the main point of contact for developers, engineers, utility companies, SCDOT, architects, contractors, customers, and municipalities, ensuring their satisfaction with the quality of electrical service.
• Directs and completes field inspections, preliminary and final designs, and prepares maps for various work requests including commercial development, residential subdivisions, lighting, system improvements, relocations, cable replacements, and franchise/conversion projects.
• Utilizes computer systems including EDIS, WMIS, CCS, FIS, ECM, Outlook, Basic Pulling Tensions, Overhead Sag & Tension, Word, Excel, Voltage Drop/Flicker, Transformer Loading, and Microsoft Projects for work request designs.
• Verifies maps for field accuracy to maintain a current graphical view of distribution facilities.
• Prepares instructional letters, sketches, and diagrams.
• Designs work requests to applicable Company and National Code standards.
• Ensures proper load distribution on the system by specifying facility phase connections.
• Develops project master plan layouts and completes planning system improvement plans to meet future power/load requirements.
• Determines facility equipment sizing (transformers, primary, secondary, and service wire) by obtaining load data from customers.
• Completes material orders for work requests utilizing WMIS.
• Completes engineering estimates for temporary facilities, relocations, conversions, and other estimates as required by current line extension policy and Distribution Design Directives.
• Accumulates inter-departmental charges, performing charge analysis of all time, labor, and materials for the construction of electrical distribution facilities.
• Responsible for the proper handling of payments received from customers for job requests, invoices, and reimbursable/billable projects.
• Will consider Engineer I, II, or III.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from an EAC/ABET accredited university or college.
• Fundamental of Engineering (FE) license (required for Engineer III, preferred for Engineer II).
• Minimum of 2 years of directly related experience (required for Engineer II).
• Minimum of 5 years of directly related experience (required for Engineer III).

Qualifications

• Engineer I: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Engineer II: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering + 2 years directly related experience. Fundamental of Engineering license preferred.
• Engineer III: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering + 5 years directly related experience. Fundamental of Engineering license required.