Engineering Manager

Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, PayneCrest Electric, Inc. has been an established leader in providing solution-oriented industrial, commercial, and telecom electrical contracting services for large, complex, engineering-intensive projects for almost 70 years.

Servicing an impressive array of Fortune 500 end-users and multinational corporations, PayneCrest Electric, Inc., is ranked in the top 50 of national electrical contractors (through Engineering News-Record) with over $200M in annual revenue and active project work throughout the country.

We are seeking an Engineering Manager responsible for the design, coordination and deployment of electrical construction systems including; power distribution, power generation, instrumentation, lighting and low voltage systems to develop projects from concept to completion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as the engineering lead for plan/specification, design/assist, and/or design/build projects greater than $5M
• Navigate and evaluate construction documents, equipment cut sheets, and schematic diagrams from all disciplines, to identify the electrical scope of work and how the installations of other disciplines will affect the electrical installation
• Utilize Revit, AutoCAD, and Navisworks to modify/create project specific installation documents.
• Lead the complete project or portion of the project depending on the project size in the BIM Coordination for the electrical scope to ensure that we have enough space and that our installation is as efficient as possible while allowing the other trades the space that they need to perform their work
• Participate in the early identification of installations that are best suited to be pre-fabricated, and work with our Spooling Manager to coordinate how those assemblies are to be modeled and constructed
• Work with PayneCrest internal customers along with external customers and vendors to gather information to be incorporated into the design to assure that the design is complete and presented to the field to allow for ease of installation
• Provide mentorship to entry level engineering team members

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Experience with designing: one-line diagrams to include sizing of all distribution equipment and feeders, lighting and receptacle layouts and circuiting along with grouping circuits for branch circuit homeruns, lighting control systems, mechanical and owner furnished equipment evaluation and conduit and wire sizing, etc.
• Experience with industry drafting and modeling software along with industry standard drafting techniques used to identify electrical installations on 2D documents
• Experience with Building Information Modeling (BIM), and the coordination process needed to perform multi-trade clash detection prior to construction to resolve potential design and installation issues
• Experience with typical electrical installations, and well versed in the materials used allowing the designs to be created with the field productivity in mind
• Familiar with value engineering concepts that provide similar results via different technologies.
• Extensive knowledge of the National Electric Code (NEC). Able to research and apply local building and energy codes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Management or similar major
• Professional Engineering (PE) License - preferred
• 5 years of experience designing industrial and commercial electrical systems with Revit, AutoCAD, and Navisworks through version 2020
• Intermediate to Expert level experience with all required software applications for design and engineering (i.e. AutoCAD, Revit, and Microsoft Office suite)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with colleagues and clients
• Team oriented. Management experience preferred.
• Willingness to travel if needed for the duration of projects based in the Midwest
• Willing to take on large projects.
• Experience with electrical contracting preferred.
• Experience in automotive, pharma, or data center construction industries highly desired.

COMPENSATION:

• Salary commensurate with experience
• Annual discretionary bonus opportunity
• Competitive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401(k) with industry-leading company match, flexible spending accounts, phone allowance, PTO, deductible reimbursement, fitness club memberships, etc

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.