Project Low Voltage Designer

EwingCole • Philadelphia, PA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices across the country. Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. We are looking for an Project Low Voltage Designer to join our team in our Philadelphia or Wayne office. The Project Low Voltage Designer is responsible for the design and documentation of Low Voltage (Telecom, Security and AV) Systems on major projects, ensuring alignment with design intent, codes, and quality standards. This role supports project delivery from concept through construction, coordinating across disciplines, managing responsibilities across multiple projects, and identifying potential risks or liability concerns in coordination with the Discipline Director. The Project Low Voltage Designer also contributes to project planning efforts, including estimating hours for specific tasks and overall project scope, and provides mentorship and technical guidance to junior staff.

Requirements

• Minimum of an Associate’s degree or technical school certification in a related field, or 10+ years of field experience installing/designing applicable systems
• Proficient in Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam and the Microsoft Suite

Nice To Haves

• RCDD and/or CISSP and/or CTS-D preferred

Responsibilities

• Guiding the modeling and creation of drawings used to accurately deliver projects, reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership
• Understanding the software analysis to ensure accuracy
• Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design
• Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget
• Knowledge of local and national building and material specific codes ensuring project designs and construction documents comply with applicable codes
• Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards, including participation in QA/QC reviews
• Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals
• Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project
• Selecting equipment and identifying appropriate applications that consider system performance and project requirements
• Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements
• Determining and applying calculation and analysis models to evaluate engineering conditions and guide project design decisions
• Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
• Communicating engineering design intent, technical decisions, and system impacts effectively to clients, consultants, and project teams
• Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the system design
• Developing effective spatial configuration options through analysis of adjacencies, phasing and expansion
• Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project

Benefits

• Generous paid time off
• 401(k) plan with company match
• tuition reimbursement
• flexible/hybrid work options
• paid parental leave
• excellent insurance offerings including medical, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree