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Electrical Design Technician

Manassas, VA 20110

Posted: 04/02/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Engineering Job Number: 615453 Country: United States Is job remote?: No

Job Description


Description:
Education:
  • High School, 2 year technical degree or Revit training program
Experience:
  • This position is a minimum 2 years of relevant experience in BIM drafting (Revit MEP), with 4 being more common.
Technical Competencies: 
  • Knowledge of NFPA 70 (NEC), and other NFPA codes governing designs
  • Knowledge and application of company engineering design and BIM & CAD drafting standards
  • Knowledge of electrical power distribution equipment
  • Familiarity with one-line diagrams, riser diagrams, panel schedules, and electrical plan views
  • Understanding of Ohms Laws, Voltage Drop calculations
  • Routing of conduit & cable tray in Revit
  • Space planning and locating Electrical equipment in Revit
Skills: 
  • Proficient in Revit and 2D AutoCAD
  • Circuiting of equipment in Revit
  • Clash Detection using Navisworks
  • Create panel schedules and cable schedules from Revit
  • Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, OneNote, and Access
  • Good listening, writing and communication skills
  • Good presentation skills

Responsibilities:
  • You will be accountable for budget, schedule and quality of assigned tasks. Your duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
  • Gain familiarity with the client’s expectations and standards
  •  Recognize and communicate scope and design changes promptly
  • Collaborate design criteria with engineering team members to gather information required to model systems and components
  • This is a subordinate position. You will be accountable for budget, schedule and quality of assigned tasks. Your duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
  • Gain familiarity with the client’s expectations and standards
  • Recognize and communicate scope and design changes promptly
  • Collaborate design criteria with engineering team members to gather information required to model systems and components
  • Coordinate space in BIM model with all disciplines
  • Interpret architect drawings/specifications, blueprints and construction documents
  • Utilize BIM software to provide layouts, general arraignments, profile views, details, under close supervision
  • Set up and maintain BIM with project / client standards
  • Understand and apply both Jacobs and client safety standards in design and everyday activities.
  • Actively cooperate with members of your project task force, client personnel and members of your department, as appropriate
  • Establish a professional and, if possible, a personal relationship with key client personnel with whom you interact
  • Understand client expectations, as determined by the team, and constantly strive to achieve or better these
  • Meet commitments that you make to the client, individually or as a team, to complete work by certain dates or within agreed effort hour or cost budgets
  • Produce flawless work with minimum rework
  • Look for ways to reduce project cost and schedule and for ways to improve our work processes

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