About the Role
Lead the electrical design and delivery of municipal and utility projects across Texas, helping clients solve complex infrastructure challenges while mentoring the next generation of engineers. Work on projects involving power distribution systems, pump stations, backup power systems, motor controls, and SCADA-related infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Lead electrical engineering design for municipal infrastructure projects, including pump stations, power distribution, backup power systems, controls, and SCADA-related systems or other assigned projects.
- Design and review power distribution systems, generators, motor controls, VFDs, and SCADA-related infrastructure.
- Coordinate with civil engineers, utilities, contractors, and project stakeholders throughout project delivery.
- Perform technical reviews and QA/QC of engineering deliverables and subconsultant work.
- Support project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and resource forecasting activities.
- Provide construction-phase support, including submittal reviews, RFIs, and site visits.
- Mentor and develop junior engineers.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships through technical excellence and responsiveness.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of electrical engineering systems, including power distribution, generators, backup power systems, motor controls, grounding systems, and related infrastructure.
- Knowledge of municipal, utility, water, and wastewater infrastructure projects is highly preferred.
- Familiarity with controls, instrumentation, and SCADA systems.
- Understanding of project delivery processes, permitting requirements, and construction documentation.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to lead electrical design efforts from concept through construction.
- Strong technical problem-solving and engineering judgment skills.
- Ability to perform quality reviews and ensure technical accuracy of engineering deliverables.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with clients, project teams, and stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to mentor and develop junior engineering staff.
- 6+ years of electrical engineering experience supporting municipal, utility, infrastructure, or water/wastewater projects.
- Experience designing electrical systems including power distribution, generators, motor controls, VFDs, and control systems.
- Experience coordinating with clients, contractors, utilities, and project stakeholders.
- Experience providing construction-phase support, including RFIs, submittals, and field coordination.
- Previous experience leading projects, technical tasks, or mentoring junior engineers is preferred.
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Dunaway in the U.S. without employer sponsorship.
- We do not typically sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions.
Skills
- Electrical engineering systems
- Power distribution
- Generators
- Backup power systems
- Motor controls
- Grounding systems
- Municipal infrastructure projects
- Utility infrastructure projects
- Water infrastructure projects
- Wastewater infrastructure projects
- Controls
- Instrumentation
- SCADA systems
- Project delivery processes
- Permitting requirements
- Construction documentation
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- Bluebeam
- Microsoft Office applications
- Electrical design leadership
- Technical problem-solving
- Engineering judgment
- Quality reviews
- Technical accuracy
- Communication skills
- Relationship-building skills
- Client management
- Project team collaboration
- Stakeholder management
- Priority management
- Project management
- Fast-paced environment adaptation
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Mentoring junior engineers
Location
- Texas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 6+ years of electrical engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Professional Engineer (P.E.) license in the State of Texas
Benefits
- Employee ownership mindset
- Profit-sharing opportunities
- Career advancement
- Leadership development
- Flexible work environment
- Competitive compensation
- Competitive benefits
About the Company
- Founded in 1956, Dunaway is a multidisciplinary professional services firm offering Survey, Civil and Structural Engineering, Planning + Landscape Architecture, and Construction Inspection Services (CIS), in addition to Environmental and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), SUE (Subsurface Utility Engineering), and ROW (Right-of-Way) services.
- For over seventy years, Dunaway has been a trusted client advisor, committed to improving lives in the communities we serve.
- Supported by a team of 370+ professionals with eight offices across Texas, including Fort Worth, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Farmersville, Houston, and Midland.
- The Dunaway Difference is our three foundational components (represented by the waves in our logo): Core Values, One Heart and Profitable Growth.
- One heart, all rowing in the same direction in unison together, while continuously seeking to exemplify our core values of Integrity, Respect, Honesty, Technical Excellence, Attitude of Service, Sense of Urgency and Responsiveness in everything we do.
- We always look forward with the finish line in mind. Because when we win, our employees do too.
- Through our profitable growth, we provide opportunities, such as Profit-sharing, career advancement, and stability.
- Named a Top Firm to Work for by Zweig.
