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Job Description

AECOM has an opening for an experienced Electrical Engineer to support our growing Buildings + Places teams in Chicago, IL

The Electrical Engineer will join a multidisciplinary, collaborative team with a range of expertise supporting the expansion of their knowledge base with the ability to travel and gain field experience.

As part of our team, you will support a diverse tapestry of work across markets like Commercial, Federal (Military/DoD), Healthcare, Higher Education, Sports + Rec and Science + Tech markets, including landmark projects in the industry. You will have opportunities to take on complex challenges and pioneer innovative solutions from strategy and design through project realization.

Join a practice filled with professionals pioneering Energy Conservation and Zero Carbon initiatives, focusing on renewable energy projects for high-performance buildings. Contribute to decarbonization and electrification efforts while enjoying focused growth opportunities in sustainable practices and skills enhancement training centric to AECOM's Sustainable Legacy.

About Buildings + Places:

Our Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, interiors, building and system engineering, urbanism, and planning (inclusive of landscape design), strategy +, economics, technology solutions, asset advisory, and cost and program management. This diverse team assists our clients from strategy through project realization, creating positive outcomes for those who occupy and use the buildings and environments we help to create. Our Chicago studio focuses on the Commercial/Corporate, Science and Technology, Higher Education and Federal market sectors. We look to combine beauty, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and innovation in our projects and believe these values can be instilled in any project regardless of size or budget.

Some of our recent projects include tenant build-out spaces, water reclamation office building and lab facility, Joint Public Safety Training Center, Package distribution warehouses, and cutting-edge scientific research facilities. 

Job Summary/Responsibilities:

The Electrical Engineer will work in a highly collaborative environment on a wide range of projects. The ideal candidate will have a passion for designing building electrical systems. The Engineer will be responsible for performing technical calculations and design, understanding the project requirements and the effort required to complete the work and applying critical thinking to quickly recognize issues and be part of the solution.

The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Perform assignments requiring application of standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to carry out engineering tasks.

• Assignments are designed to further develop judgment and understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities.

• Exercise judgment limited to developing details of work in making preliminary selections and adaptations of engineering alternatives.

• Prepare engineering related calculations and develop drawings and visual aids.

• Research and apply building code, regulatory and industry code requirements.

• Prepare electrical design calculations, utilize electrical and lighting design software.

• Responsible for supporting the electrical engineering design work on assigned projects under the guidance of senior staff.

• Coordinating with multiple disciplines and ensuring that projects are delivered within budget and on schedule.

• Ensures discipline plans meet overall project team requirements for scope and schedule.

• Stays current on codes and technologies appropriate to electrical, telecom, and security.

• Ensures conformance with standards and established design practices, applicable codes, and technical adequacy of design and construction.

• Develops designs within a BIM design environment.

• Completes assigned engineering and design tasks in accordance with client specified criteria and applicable codes and standards.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS in Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering or similar +4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

• Experience with Revit

• Valid driver’s license

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong preference for an Engineer with 6-7 years of experience in the design and support of Electrical Engineering work across preferred market sectors such as Commercial/Office, Federal (Military/DoD), Healthcare, Higher Education, Sports + Rec and Science + Tech markets

• Experience AutoCAD, AGI 32 design software

• Excellent communication skills; articulate, assertive, and confident

• Creative thinker with effective teamwork skills

• Strong written and verbal skills with ability to support engineering tasks

• Possession of Engineer-in-Training (EIT) certification or active progression towards obtaining Professional Engineer (PE) licensure.

Additional Information

• This can be a hybrid position; up to 2 days work from home

• Relocation assistance is not available for this role

• Sponsorship is not available for this role now or in the future

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Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $110,000.00 - $140,000.00.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absence, voluntary benefits, perks, U.S. and global well-being programs, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10109300

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: West

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: Hybrid