Airswift has been tasked by one of its key clients to find an experienced Electrical Design Technician to join their team in a 1 year contract working in Hillsboro, OR.
Requirements:
- High School diploma
- 2 year technical degree or 4 year non-technical degree
- 5 years of experience in design utilizing 2 or 3-D modeling/drafting
Technical Competencies:
- Knowledge and application of the National Electrical Code
- Knowledge and application of relevant codes and standards such as the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), National Electrical Safety Code (NESC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), etc.
- Knowledge of electrical construction materials, components, and practices
- Familiarity with and application of Jacobs engineering design and CADD drafting standards
- Able to perform zonal cavity and point-to-point lighting level calculations
- Able to size wire, conduit and overcurrent protection for both lighting and power applications
- Able to perform voltage drop calculations
- Able to route conduit and cable tray
- Able to calculate tray fill
- Able to determine distribution, branch panel, and motor control center loading
- Familiarity with specification and installation details of construction bulk materials and equipment
- Ability to create accurate electrical installation documents from the information found on vendor equipment drawings
- Knowledge and understanding of work flow/information flow between disciplines
- Knowledge and understanding of schedule constraints and information requirements for the production of all electrical deliverables
Skills:
- Proficient in Revit and 2D AutoCAD or Microstation
- Proficient in Microsoft Mail, Word, Excel, OneNote, and Access
- Familiarity with a third party lighting design software package
- Good listening, writing and communication skills
- Good presentation skills
Duties and Responsibilities:
This is a subordinate position. You will be accountable for preparing engineering drawings from sketches or engineering information, budget, schedule and technical quality of assigned routine design tasks. Your duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Gain familiarity with the client’s expectations, scope, budget and schedule for assigned tasks
- Recognize and communicate scope and design changes promptly
- Utilize BIM software to provide layouts, general arraignments, profile views, and details
- Provide on-site assistance during startup
- Draft installation details, single lines, electric room layouts, motor control elementariness, connection diagrams, control panel layouts and grounding, lighting, power plans
Overall Expectations:
- Actively cooperate with members of your project task force, client personnel and members of your department, as appropriate
- Establish a professional and, if possible, a personal relationship with key client personnel with whom you interact
- Understand client expectations, as determined by the team, and constantly strive to achieve or better these
- Meet commitments that you make to the client, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets
- Produce flawless work with minimum rework
- Look for ways to reduce project cost and schedule and for ways to improve our work processes