Project Electrical Engineer - Education

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking an Electrical Engineer to join our Design & Engineering team within the North America Places group. We are looking to grow our team of skilled multi-discipline engineers and engineering consultants throughout North America.  The role sits within our Places Global Business Area (GBA). We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe, and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people’s lives through new or redeveloped Data Center, Transit Facility, Commercial and Retail, Mixed-Use Residential, Institutional/Educational, and Social Infrastructure developments.

Arcadis is the second largest architectural firm in the world. Join us in our journey to become the largest engineering firm in the world by expanding our reach in the Southern California region.

In this role, you will be accountable for providing first-in-class solutions to internal and external clients through your technical expertise in electrical engineering and associated building systems. You will use your knowledge of building-level power distribution, lighting, emergency power, controls, and similar building systems in combination with an affinity for client interaction to provide sustainable, high-quality deliverables ranging from front end planning reports to issue for Construction document packages.

This position has flexible working hours, and you will join a collaborative team that truly values its people. This is a key location based position. While work scopes may be located throughout the United States, we are searching for individuals in the Southern California area to support our existing world-class Education architectural practice.
 

Role accountabilities:

• Sustainable electrical engineering expertise: Have a solid understanding of and ability to develop engineering reports, calculations, drawings, and specifications both directly and indirectly through team members
• Flexibility:  Openness to using existing skills in related areas and comfort with doing new things
• Entrepreneurial Mindset:  Shared ownership of opportunity pursuit, strategy creation, client relationships, attention to quality, and delivery excitement/innovation.
• Market Presence: Be aware of and engaged in organizations and clients in the region. Have the ability to raise and take ownership of project opportunities.
• Understanding of global ways of working:  Soft skills to be successful within a multicultural environmental with people of differing backgrounds. Ability and flexibility to directly work with teammates throughout the globe.
• Up to 20% travel may be required which will include overnight stays

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ or more years’ relevant MEP experience within the Education landscape
• Professional Engineer in California
• Ability to communicate both internally and externally regarding client needs/desires and technical solutions
• Experience working with projects that utilize Fundamental knowledge of Autodesk Platforms and other digital design tools including Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) or Building Information Modelling (BIM) engineered solutions

Education

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct working experience on past projects with Arcadis (including legacy CRTKL and IBI) architects
• Experience in full-service consulting design firms and coordination with in-house A/E resources
• Adaptable to new digital tools such as AI in an effort to understand how delivery must change over the short and medium term
• Practical Sustainability and carbon reduction experience.
• Experience with urban environments implementing transformative solutions
• Experience with user-experience-centric-type projects requiring narrow engineering solutions

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $150,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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