Senior Electrical Engineer Data Center

VARITE • Overland Park, KS

1d • Onsite

About The Position

VARITE is seeking a qualified Senior Electrical Engineer Data Center for one of its clients located in Overland Park, KS, with openings across multiple locations. The client is a global engineering, procurement, construction, and consulting company that provides infrastructure and energy solutions, specializing in sectors such as energy, water, telecommunications, and environmental services. VARITE, established in 2000, is an award-winning minority business enterprise providing global consulting & staffing services to Fortune 1000 companies and government agencies. With over 850 global consultants, VARITE is committed to delivering excellence by leveraging its global experience and expertise in providing comprehensive scientific, engineering, technical, and non-technical staff augmentation and talent acquisition services. This is a temporary to full-time position with a duration of 06 months, requiring onsite work 5 days a week.

Requirements

• Minimum of 11 years related work experience.
• Written Communications.
• Drive For Results.
• Priority Setting.
• Planning.
• Delegation.
• Directing Others.
• Conflict Management.
• Informing.
• Listening.
• Dealing with Ambiguity.
• Building Effective Teams.
• Advanced knowledge of engineering design principles and applicable design guides and standards related to assigned engineering discipline.
• Requires a bachelor's degree in engineering from either a recognized accredited program in their home country or the country in which the professional is practicing.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Nice To Haves

• Proficient in AutoCAD/Revit/BIM.
• Ability and interest to engage in a variety of responsibilities to ensure safe project delivery that meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Ability to problem solve and deal with ambiguous scopes to provide clients with flexible solutions on a fast-paced schedule.
• Professional written and verbal communication skills as this role will interact directly with clients.
• Previous experience within Data Centers.
• Demonstrated understanding of design risk factors for redundancy and resiliency.
• Understanding of design differences in hyper-scale, edge, and colocation data centers.
• Proficiency in 3D modeling as well as managing and creating complex families with custom parameters within Autodesk Revit.
• Familiarity with Data Center tier rating systems.
• Strong knowledge of Autodesk Revit.
• Experience utilizing BIM 360, Navisworks, Revit work sets, view templates and project phasing.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment.
• Self-motivated to deliver results when given a deadline.
• Attention to detail with the ability to manage competing priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and leverage data and metrics to challenge current assumptions.
• Sound, professional communication skills to engage in client-facing activities.
• Ability to lead projects including management of project schedules, budgets, and staffing.
• Strong leaderships skills, with desire to train and develop early career and/or inexperienced professionals.
• Most positions - depending on the nature of work performed as defined by the division - will typically require incumbents to have professional registration or licensure in their designated home office country or be in active pursuit.

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to deliver detailed design of large-scale data center environments while following all company, client and project design; may involve leading teams dedicated to these design.
• Work closely with engineering project teams and field personnel to complete and review projects on scope, budget and schedule.
• Incorporate schedules, budgets and project criteria into physical design and layouts.
• Possess a willingness to function in multiple job roles simultaneously.
• Provide guidance and insight into design risk factors for redundancy and resiliency.
• Conducts field surveys, drawings, and other data to assess conditions of existing facilities and develop summary reports.
• Prepare and/or review technical drawings to ensure that installations and designs conform to standards and customer requirements.
• Review drawing and modeling production work, including problem analysis.
• Provide guidance to ensure that designs comply with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
• Compiles data and creates engineering studies and reports.
• Perform detailed calculations as needed by the project.
• Mentor, provide guidance, and supervise junior-level engineers and designers.
• Provides training for other technical personnel.
• Coordinate with internal and external clients to determine proper requirements for projects.
• Support business development, including developing scope-of-work, level-of-effort, and site visits to understand the scope of the pursuit.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Plans: Participation in a company-sponsored retirement savings plan.
• Legal Service Plans: Offering access to attorneys for legal advice and representation.
• Employee referral bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior