Electrical Engineer, Development

Orenda•New York, NY

4d•$120,000 - $170,000•Onsite

About The Position

Orenda is seeking a highly motivated and talented Electrical Engineer to support the Project Development team. This role focuses on maintaining the design baseline, enforcing standards, driving QA/QC, and resolving technical issues across various project documentation and interfaces. The ideal candidate is rigorous, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You will be responsible for ensuring design packages meet Orenda's standards, managing technical clarifications, and contributing to the continuous improvement of design specifications. This position requires close coordination with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure project success and scalability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (preferred) or a related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years in electrical engineering supporting complex projects (energy, utility, industrial, EPC, or comparable).
Working knowledge of applicable electrical codes and standards (e.g., NEC and relevant local/amendment requirements) and ability to apply them across design development, permitting packages, and field-driven clarifications.
Comfortable reviewing MV electrical equipment and related interfaces (protection/controls, metering CT/PT, grounding/bonding, communications, commissioning support) and spotting scope/interface risk early.
Proven ability to run structured RFI / technical clarification cycles (comment logs, turnaround targets, closure tracking) with auditable traceability of assumptions and approvals.
Low tolerance for ambiguous scope, undocumented commitments, or drifting baselines; uses logs, timestamps, and explicit assumptions to keep teams aligned.
Comfortable operating across Construction, Pre-construction, Procurement, Finance, and Legal without overstepping authority.
Strong writing and exec-ready communication skills (clear issue statements, options, and recommendations).
Comfortable adopting engineering/procurement workflows in systems like Kahua, Procore, Bluebeam/PlanGrid, BIM 360, or similar.

Nice To Haves

BESS / PCS / protection schemes experience (battery OEM, PCS, switchgear/protection, communications).
Cross-functional design experience coordinating with civil, structural, and architectural disciplines.
NYC / dense-urban delivery constraints experience (tight delivery windows, rigging constraints, AHJ/utility interface).
Experience working with EORs and driving comment-resolution cycles on accelerated schedules.
Extremely organized, process-oriented, and disciplined about document control.
Low tolerance for ambiguous scope, un-owned technical risk, or undocumented commitments.
Proactive risk-management mindset (surfaces issues early with clear options and recommended mitigations).
Comfortable driving clarity across internal teams and external consultants/vendors without overstepping authority boundaries.

Responsibilities

Review EOR design packages at 30%/60%/90%/IFC against Orenda Site Design Specifications (single-lines, layouts, grounding/bonding, labeling, key interfaces).
Issue crisp comment logs, run closure to zero, and prevent downstream rework.
Participate in constructability reviews (typically 60% and 90%).
Capture recurring field issues and design clarifications and convert them into durable standards updates with the Principal Engineer.
Own intake, triage, and coordination of technical RFIs and submittals that involve (or may trigger) a design change.
Maintain an auditable RFI/comment log with timestamps, assumptions, and approvals; coordinate responses with the EOR + Principal Engineer for fast, clean closure.
Sanity-check vendor submittals (switchgear, transformers, protection/controls, metering CT/PT, communications) for interface completeness and spec alignment.
Run clarification cycles to closure and keep every decision traceable to the design baseline.
Coordinate electrical interfaces across BESS/PCS/MV gear, metering, protection, SCADA/EMS, and fire/life safety — surface integration risk early, before it becomes field pain.
Produce decision-grade redlines/memos.
Maintain clean baselines, revision history, and closure evidence so scope doesn’t change silently.
Keep Development PMs, Preconstruction, Procurement, and Construction aligned to schedule + readiness needs; escalate crisply with issue statement, impact, options, and a recommendation.