Senior Electrical Engineer - Bakersfield, CA

Our client is now hiring an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer with a desire to work on Utility and Oil & Gas projects. Their extensive experience in this field, combined with your engineering knowledge, will propel your career forward with opportunity for advancement with top performance. We need our Senior Engineers to be versatile, enthusiastic to work in a highly flexible, team-oriented environment. In this role you will complete a wide variety of difficult engineering assignments, applying engineering techniques and analyses within the electrical engineering discipline. You will apply advanced engineering techniques and analyses which may involve the use of ETAP and other similar applications. 

Responsibilities: 

• Performs complex engineering tasks and difficult engineering work efficiently and accurately. 
• Extract engineering information from CAD drawings. Prepares engineering computations, material quantity takeoffs, estimates, surveys, and designs. 
• Prepares detailed requisitions for equipment and materials. 
• Reviews supplier drawing submittals and performs technical bid analyses. 
• Prepares and issues specifications, datasheets, and other construction documents. 
• Provides technical guidance to CAD Drafters, Designers, and lower-level Engineers working on the same project. 
• May be required to provide the seal and signature of the professional engineer, as appropriate, ensuring compliance with all applicable codes, regulations, and ordinances. 
• May act in an advisory capacity to senior management personnel on engineering related matters. 
• Experience working with 480V and up 
• Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team of engineers and designers on multiple, concurrently executed projects. 
• Good organizational and communication skills. Expresses ideas concisely and clearly, both orally and in writing. 
• Accepts responsibility for own actions and honors commitments. 
• Willingness and ability to travel to client offices, other offices, and project sites for meetings, performing inspections and walk downs, and to assist field personnel and construction team with Electrical technical issues. 
• Proficient in the use of office personal computers, office networks, and the Microsoft Office suite of software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access). 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of related work experience. 
• Active Professional Engineer registration in California is required or ability to obtain in 3 months. 
• Proficiency in utilizing software packages typically associated with Electrical Engineering is required 
• Experience in low voltage and medium voltage heavy industrial design, substation design, transmission, and distribution line design, and ETAP modeling required. 
• Working knowledge of applicable Industry Codes and Standards (e.g. NEC, ASME, ANSI, ISA, ASHRAE, IEEE, ASTM, NFPA). 

***Notice to Candidates:  Background checks are carried out as part of any conditional offer made, including (but not limited to & role dependent) education, professional registration, employment, references, passport verifications and Global Watchlist screening.

To be Considered Candidates: Must be authorized to work in the USA without sponsorship***

Employment Type: Contract to Hire
Location of Position: Bakersfield, CA
Location Type: Facility/Office
Salary range: $55- $65/hr (depending on experience)
Work Schedule: Onsite 8am – 5pm 

To apply for this opportunity, please contact Ora Chak; email: Ora.Chak@trsstaffing.com 

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