Electrical Design Specialist

Salas O'Brien • Dublin, OH

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

You dream about electrical systems. You’re passionate about utilities, manufacturing, industrial process, engineering design . You love to collaborate with a technically proficient team. And you never stop growing . The Job Our office in Dublin, Ohio is looking for an Electrical Design Specialist 1 to provide design, drafting, and CAD services to clients for their design projects either directly through on-site assignment or through the Salas O’Brien engineering and design project team. This position is based in our Dublin office and will have a hybrid schedule with some days in the office and some working remotely.

Requirements

• Associates or bachelor’s degree in design or drafting
• 2-5 years of experience in electrical design
• Solid understanding of electrical substation design, power transmission & distribution, and generating layout plans, electrical assemblies, and bills of materials
• Must have experience working with AutoCAD as a design tool

Nice To Haves

• Inventor experience strongly desired

Responsibilities

• Possess a working level of technical knowledge and an experience base that supports the application of technology to the solution of reasonably well-defined problems in design or analysis.
• Possess the capacity to analyze system architectures, system component relationships.
• Provide training and mentoring for subordinate technical staff; take an active role in personnel development through providing comprehensive and timely project personnel performance reviews; seek out client perspectives on the Varo products personnel and services rendered.
• Read, interpret, and apply standards, customer specifications, and standard drawing formats.
• Exhibit mastery of discipline design and drawing conventions.
• Interpret codes and standards and apply them.
• Resolve conflicts and accommodate conflicting approaches and objectives at the project level.
• Facilitate and coordinate work activities of others within a project team or technical area.
• Facilitate and coordinate all work activities that affect the quality of administration, proposals, engineering & design, document control, inspection & testing, and commissioning in accordance with Varo’s Quality Assurance Program.
• Find and understand job requirements, visualize and design in three dimensions (3D), interpret customer job specific requirements.
• Work from written and verbal instructions.
• Access and efficiently utilize information contained in technical manuals, vendor and customer drawings, and previous designs.
• Be proficient in CAD and manual drafting techniques.
• Perform routine design calculations, interpret graphs, access and obtain information from tables and codebooks.
• Perform effectively as a member of a design team.
• Deliver a quality design product in the allotted time to support client project needs.
• Effectively apply self-checking to work product.
• Conduct work activities that affect the quality of engineering & design in accordance with Salas O’Brien’s Quality Assurance Program.
• Review and check the work of others.
• Ascertain the correctness of inputs, question inconsistencies, and apparent errors and omissions.
• Assist in documenting engineering inputs, time and material estimates.
• Assist in project scoping.
• Participate in the personal Employee Assessment & Development process.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned by the project team or deemed appropriate for the position by management.

Benefits

• Variety of projects and clients
• Collaboration with experts in your field
• Growth opportunities within a local office or other Salas O’Brien offices
• Awesome culture defined by our Ownership Values
• outstanding benefits—everything you would expect for insurance and vacation time, plus incentives for sustainable living, professional education & licensure reimbursement, and flexible work scheduling at arrangement of your manager.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree