Electrical Design Technician
Electrical Design Technician
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Job Description
Overview
Westwood Professional Services Inc.is seeking an Electrical Design Technican to join our renewables team. This position will be responsible for designing elements of utilityscale solar energy systems primarily using AutoCAD. Youll be utilizing AutoCAD to create construction documents and perform quantity takeoffs. Including site layouts wire/cable routing plans one lines details equipment/wire schedules etc.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Construction document production support for commercial and utility scale solar wind and energy storage projects.
- Coordinate with design team disciplines including civil engineers geotechnical engineers and surveyors
- Utilize AutoCAD to create construction documents and perform quantity takeoffs. Construction documents will include site layouts wire/cable routing plans one lines details equipment/wire schedules etc.
- Create wiring/cable schedules based takeoffs and sizing input from senior designers/engineers
- Maintain awareness and knowledge of Westwood design/CAD standards
Required Skills
- Proficiency in AutoCAD
- Knowledge of NEC and/or NESC
- Experience and knowledge of basic electrical design concepts
Required Experience
- Associates Degree or Technical School Certificate in Electrical Design Solar Design Architectural/Engineering Drafting or related degree
- Approximately 1 4 years of experience in the drafting/design of electrical power/distribution systems
- Working knowledge and ability to read construction drawings and specifications
- Proficiency with Microsoft Windows/Office products
- Professional appearance with excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Must have a strong work ethic along with a positive attitude
- Must be a supportive team member able to work in a collaborative environment.
- Must be selfmotivated with an ability to balance multiple projects under tight deadlines
Preferred Experience
- Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Energy Engineering or similar.
- Experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Experience with ArcGIS
- Proficiency with ETAP SKM CYME or similar software package used to model electrical power systems and perform load flow short circuit voltage drop grounding thermal and protective device coordination studies and analysis.
- NABCEP Certification
- Wind AC collection design
- Experience with energy storage systems (battery fuel cells flywheel or capacitor)
- Experience with PVsyst Helioscope SAM or other PV production modeling software
- Experience with Helios 3D or SunDAT
- Experience with Homer Pro
Compensation Range Minimum
Compensation Range Maximum
About Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)
Westwood Professional Services Inc. (Westwood)was established in 1972 and has since become a leader in many markets it serves. Westwood is a fullservice multidiscipline professional engineering firm that serves wind solar battery storage EV power delivery residential and commercial development and public infrastructure clients and their projects from over 25 offices across the U.S.
In 2023 Zweig Group ranked Westwood nationally at #12 and #30 respectively on its Hot Firms and Best Firms to Work for lists. Zweig also awarded Westwood two national 2nd place awards for Marketing Excellence. Westwoodwas recently recognized as #79 in the ENR Top 500 Firms in 2023.The firm consistently ranks on industry top 25 lists and receives recognition for its involvement on awardwinning projects nationwide.
Westwood provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We believe that diverse backgrounds strengthen our business. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
