Nrel
Facilities Electrical Engineer
Golden, CO · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$84k-$151kDetected 30 days ago
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About the role
- Posting Title Facilities Electrical Engineer.
- Working at NLR NLR is located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado is the nation's primary laboratory for energy systems research and development.
- Join the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where world-class scientists, engineers, and experts are accelerating energy innovation through breakthrough research and systems integration.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to develop scope definition, statements of work, and cost estimates for projects requiring electrical engineering review and other assistance.
- Contribute to the electrical engineering team with regular updates to Design Guidelines, Master Construction Specifications, and engineering best practices related to electrical engineering.
- Collaborate with researchers to define project scope and budget for future project requests.
- Maintain knowledge of legal and ethical engineering issues, practices, governing laws, regulations, codes, and standards.
- Provide internal design related to electrical engineering through work orders.
- Prepare internal project electrical specifications and summaries for front end design packages.
- Perform commissioning of internal design on the field.
- Perform construction field surveys of electrical conditions and redline documents
- Interface with other engineering design disciplines.
- Work with the facility electrical engineers to develop project drawings for electrical layouts, schematics and installation details.
Requirements
- General knowledge of other related disciplines.
- Considerable knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures and practices related to specific field.
- Ability to use various computer software programs.
- Additional Required Qualifications
- Registration as a Professional Engineer (PE) in the State of Colorado or ability to obtain registration within 12 months.
- Knowledge of standard electrical construction techniques and practices including experience with field observation of construction activities, engineering technical procedures, principles, theories, and concepts.
- Knowledge of laws, regulations, principles, procedures, and practices of electrical engineering.
- Ability to effectively present information to internal and external project stakeholders.
- Provide field assistance as required.
- All employees must also be able to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), which includes a favorable background investigation.
Nice to have
- Prior experience working on government projects or in federal spaces.
- Prior experience with substation design and operation.
- Job Application Submission Window
- The anticipated closing window for application submission is up to 30 days and may be extended as needed.
- 403(b) Employee Savings Plan with employer match*
- life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance
- Prior experience working on projects in a laboratory, hospital, and/or research setting is a plus.
Compensation
- In compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, a potential new employee's salary history will not be used in compensation decisions.
- $83,600 - $150,500
- NLR takes into consideration a candidate's education, training, and experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value, including seniority and merit systems, and internal pay alignment when determining the salary level for potential new employees.
Benefits
- Relevant Bachelor's Degree and 5 or more years of experience or equivalent relevant education/experience.
- Benefits Summary
- Some positions may be eligible for relocation expense reimbursement.
- Limited-term positions are not eligible for long-term disability or tuition reimbursement.
Equal opportunity
- Employer
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard basis of age (40 and over), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic partner status, military or veteran status, national origin/ancestry, race, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding), sexual orientation, and any other applicable status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
- Reasonable Accommodations
- E -Verify www.dhs.gov/E-Verify For information about right to work, click here for English or here for Spanish.
Visa & Work Authorization
- require access to Controlled Unclassified Information which may include restricted dissemination requirements based on citizenship
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