
Director of Electrical Engineering at Network Building + Consulting
Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, VirginiaFull-timeDesign Posted about 1 month ago
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</div></div><p><strong>Director of Electrical Engineering</strong></p>
<p>The Director of Electrical Engineering leads the electrical engineering practice by driving business development, providing technical authority, and overseeing delivery across utility infrastructure sectors, with emphasis on Transmission & Distribution (T&D), substations, protection engineering, and control & integration engineering services. This role serves as the organization’s subject-matter expert in electrical utility engineering and supports division-wide growth, client expansion, and operational excellence.</p>
<p><strong>Job Responsibilities:</strong></p>
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<li>Lead business development efforts for utility electrical engineering services. </li>
<li>Identify, pursue, and secure new opportunities in Transmission and Distribution (T&D), substations, and utilities. </li>
<li>Build, maintain, and expand relationships with utilities, developers, contractors, and strategic partners. </li>
<li>Lead the technical strategy for pursuits, proposals, RFP responses, scopes, and capture plans. </li>
<li>Support the growth of major utility accounts and long-term contract programs. </li>
<li>Represent the firm in client meetings, industry events, and business development activities. </li>
<li>Serve as the technical authority for electrical utility engineering. </li>
<li>Direct the electrical engineering design, studies, and analysis for substations, transmission, and distribution systems. </li>
<li>Oversee the quality, budget, and schedule performance of electrical engineering deliverables. </li>
<li>Review and approve calculations, plans, specifications, studies, and reports. </li>
<li>Ensure compliance with client standards and applicable codes, including NEC, NESC, NFPA, and IEEE requirements. </li>
<li>Lead the development of electrical engineering standards, procedures, and quality programs. </li>
<li>Collaborate with project managers, market leaders, chief engineers, business development directors, and VPs on delivery strategies and execution. </li>
<li>Support contract administration, scope development, requests for information (RFIs), and engineering change management. </li>
<li>Mentor engineering staff to strengthen technical capabilities across the team. </li>
<li>Drive innovation, standardization, and continuous improvement in tools, workflows, and delivery practices. </li>
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<p><strong>Qualifications: </strong> </p>
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<li>BS. in Electrical Engineering required; advanced degree preferred.</li>
<li><strong>PE license required</strong>; NCEES Record preferred.</li>
<li>10–15+ years of electrical engineering experience required.</li>
<li>Strong utility and power delivery experience required.</li>
<li>Significant experience in substations, transmission, and distribution systems required.</li>
<li>Strong business development experience required, including proposals, RFP strategy, technical scoping, and client relationship management.</li>
<li>Demonstrated success supporting or growing major utility contracts and programs.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of protection engineering and control & integration engineering services.</li>
<li>Proficiency with applicable engineering and study tools such as ETAP, SKM, EasyPower, CYME, CYMCAP, PowerWorld, XGSLab, CDEGS, and PLS-CADD, as applicable.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of applicable codes and standards, including NEC, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, NETA, and client-specific utility standards.</li>
<li>Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of project delivery, contract administration, and technical proposal strategy.</li>
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