Sr. Electrical Engineer, Construction

Job Description

The Sr. Electrical Engineer defines requirements; applies applicable codes and GM standards; reviews designs and technical risks; and guides safe, compliant, reliable, cost-effective, maintainable, resilient, and sustainable decisions across project delivery and facility operations.

Key Responsibilities

• ·       Serve as GM’s electrical engineering subject matter expert for ICC planning, design, construction, and facility operations, providing independent technical leadership and decisions for major capital projects.
• ·       Establish risk-based review plans, deliverables, hold points, responsibilities, and decision records based on safety, urgency, project impact, and business need.
• ·       Review designs, studies, calculations, one-lines, specifications, models, submittals, deviations, substitutions, and field changes for technical basis, safety, code and utility compliance, constructability, reliability, maintainability, risk, and business alignment.
• ·       Independently challenge consultant designs, contractor proposals, substitutions, and execution approaches when they do not adequately protect GM’s safety, technical, operational, schedule, cost, or lifecycle interests.
• ·       Perform or review load-flow, short-circuit, protective-device coordination, arc-flash, voltage-drop, and lighting studies and calculations.
• ·       Interpret and apply applicable IEEE, NFPA 70/NEC, NESC, OSHA, utility, jurisdictional, industry, and GM requirements.
• ·       Lead electrical safety requirements, including arc-flash and incident-energy assessments, safe-work practices, equipment clearances, and grounding and bonding.
• ·       Support project delivery from front-end planning through turnover, including scope development, studies, concepts, estimates, schedules, business cases, VDP activities, Appropriation Requests, design reviews, procurement, testing, inspections, commissioning, startup, outages, and final acceptance.
• ·       Guide electrical concepts and decisions for utility services, distribution, transformers, switchgear, protection, metering, emergency power, grounding, major loads, power quality, lighting, controls, and life-safety and security systems.
• ·       Evaluate value engineering, design-to-budget, repair, replacement, monitoring, and continued-use options using lifecycle cost, safety, reliability, resilience, maintainability, energy performance, constructability, operational impact, and future needs.
• ·       Develop and maintain Statements of Requirements, Requests for Proposals, standards, specifications, electrical scopes and technical requirements, safety expectations, utility and permitting requirements, performance criteria, testing and inspection requirements, technical bid-evaluation criteria, templates, checklists, and governance documents aligned with applicable commercial requirements.
• ·       Perform or direct field investigations, condition assessments, targeted testing, and documentation of existing electrical systems to establish risk, capacity, condition, and recommended actions.
• ·       Resolve construction and operating-facility issues involving failures, failed tests, outages, damage, modifications, utility concerns, reliability, and power quality; coordinate with project teams, utilities, authorities, operations, safety, procurement, contractors, suppliers, and other disciplines.
• ·       Improve standards and execution through project history, benchmarking, lessons learned, field experience, emerging technology, BIM/VDC, document management, and reusable guidance.
• ·       Communicate risks, assumptions, alternatives, recommendations, and impacts to technical and nontechnical audiences, and mentor project teams and less-experienced engineers.
• ·       Perform other related duties as assigned.
• Required Qualifications: ·       Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, architectural engineering, or a related field.
• ·       At least seven years of progressive electrical engineering or closely related owner-side technical experience supporting major commercial, industrial, manufacturing, or similarly complex projects across capital delivery, design, construction engineering, commissioning, or facility operations.
• ·       Demonstrated expertise in power systems, utility services, distribution, transformers, switchgear, protection, grounding and bonding, lighting, controls, life-safety and security systems, power quality, codes, constructability, and risk-based design review.
• ·       Experience reviewing electrical drawings, specifications, models, studies, calculations, and construction documents to identify gaps, assumptions, risks, quality concerns, and required decisions.
• ·       Experience coordinating with architects, engineers, contractors, project managers, utilities, authorities, safety, operations, procurement, suppliers, and other project stakeholders.
• ·       Experience supporting planning, design, construction, commissioning, startup, facility modifications, outages, reliability, or asset sustainment. Occasional off-hours support may be required in exigent circumstances, including emergencies, planned shutdowns, or urgent facility issues.
• ·       Ability to develop and improve standards, specifications, Statements of Requirements, Requests for Proposals, templates, checklists, and governance documents.
• ·       Strong analytical, organizational, communication, presentation, and computer skills; ability to work independently, influence cross-functional teams, and make effective decisions with incomplete information.
• ·       Commitment to safety, quality, sustainability, compliance, and GM policies.
• ·       Ability and willingness to travel typically up to approximately 25% within North America, with occasional additional travel as business needs require; a valid passport is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ·       Active Professional Engineer (P.E.) license preferred; candidates without a current license may be considered if they can obtain an applicable license within 12 months of appointment. Licensure in other jurisdictions may be required based on assigned work.
• ·       Master’s degree in electrical engineering, architectural engineering, construction management, business administration, or a related field.
• ·       Experience with automotive, manufacturing, logistics, research, data center, office, campus, utility infrastructure, or other industrial facilities.
• ·       Experience with existing-facility evaluation, root-cause analysis, substations, high- and low-voltage distribution, transformers, switchgear, emergency and standby power, grounding, lighting, controls, life-safety and security systems, power quality, reliability, facility modifications, and repair or replacement strategies.
• ·       Practical knowledge of utility service, interconnection, metering, protection, power quality, reliability, outages, service entrances, capacity, coordination, and utility standards.
• ·       Experience with front-end planning, electrical studies, VDP activities, Appropriation Requests, and complex delivery methods such as design-build, design-bid-build, integrated project delivery, or construction management.
• ·       Experience coordinating testing, inspections, commissioning, pre-installation meetings, technical submittals, field engineering, construction issue resolution, BIM/VDC, model coordination, outage planning, utility coordination, and technical records.
• ·       Experience applying value engineering, lifecycle cost analysis, resilience, energy efficiency, electrification, low-carbon systems, adaptive reuse, or other sustainable electrical practices.
• ·       Multi-jurisdictional licensure, reciprocity, or experience across multiple states, provinces, or authorities having jurisdiction.
• ·       Spanish proficiency sufficient to communicate with project teams, contractors, plant personnel, and stakeholders in Spanish-speaking operations.
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GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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