Electrical Department Manager - Microgrid

Job Description

Dewberry's MEPS Infrastructure team is seeking an Electrical Department Manager for our Raleigh, NC specializing in MicroGrid. The successful candidate should have experience providing electrical distributions system for large campuses, municipalities, and federal campus.  Experience should include conducting power system analysis, designing protection and control systems. Experience modeling and designing medium voltage system is required. Duties include mentoring, training, and leading an effective team of electrical engineers and designers.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

The Department Manager's responsibility is to lead a team of engineers in order to execute projects. A successful department will need the following technical knowledge:

• Experience with power generation from steam, natural gas, and diesel generation.
• Experience in renewable energy source included solar and wind.
• Experience in Battery Energy Storage System
• Experience with co-gen is bonus.
• Experience with medium voltage design project for large campus utilizing below and above ground distribution.
• Experience with electrical protection and control design.
• Experience with switchgear design.
• Develop protective relay settings. Experience with SEL relay are preferred.
• Develop medium voltage specification for protection and control systems.
• Develop engineering hour estimate and proposals for power system studies.
• Assist in developing proportional material and conduct presentations.
• Technical and Quality oversight of all project work for discipline area.
• Establishing/improving standards for discipline area.
• Adherence to discipline project budget. Review and provide updates on project budgets at milestone dates. Reviewing discipline budgets weekly.
• Identify staff performing design of the project, along with a senior staff member if required.
• Identify Engineer of Record.
• Identify milestone dates when each discipline should provide information, at each phase, to allow sufficient time to good design coordination.
• Provide 'on-the-spot' advice and decisions, technical and cost estimates.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• BS in Electrical Engineering.
• 8-15 years of PSS operation experience or industrial projects.
• PE is required.
• Must have experience designing electrical systems and producing design deliverables.
• Proven leadership skills delegating to engineering and design staff.
• Must be a self-starter with initiative, drive and determination.
• Candidate must have a good working knowledge of the National Electric Code (NEC), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Life Safety Codes, and other related Codes.
• Good verbal, writing and interpersonal skills are essential for coordination with other disciplines, and client interface.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for our employee’s. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.