Staff Electrical Designer

The role

Staff Electrical Designers serve as technical authorities for electrical and instrumentation design across the full plant scope. You will produce complex drawing packages, own CAD standards and database architecture, and mentor the designer team.

What you will do

• Serve as a design discipline technical authority
• Check and approve drawing packages produced by other designers and drafting contractors
• Own assigned areas of the discipline's CAD standards
• Own assigned areas of the EPLAN and AVEVA Electrical database architecture
• Lead design solutions for first-of-a-kind and unconventional installation challenges
• Define the drawing production strategy for assigned programs
• Mentor senior and junior designers
• Produce and own complex electrical and instrumentation drawing packages
• Own cable and raceway design for assigned scope
• Lead field walkdowns for constructability and routing verification

Required qualifications

• Associate degree or technical diploma in electrical design, drafting, or engineering technology, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of electrical or I&C design experience in power generation, process industries, or industrial facilities
• Demonstrated ownership of the complete electrical/I&C drawing scope on at least one major capital project
• Track record of design leadership: formally checking and approving other designers' work, setting or improving CAD standards, and directing drafting contractors
• Expert proficiency with EPLAN (Electric P8 or equivalent) and/or AVEVA Electrical at the administration level
• Strong working knowledge of the NEC (NFPA 70)
• Experience with cable and raceway separation design for safety-related circuits (IEEE 384 or equivalent criteria), or demonstrably transferable rigorous separation/segregation design experience
• Experience with 3D plant design coordination including clash detection and model-based drawing extraction
• Extensive field experience: walkdowns, redlining, as-built production, and construction support
• Experience mentoring, checking, or supervising the work of other designers or drafters

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• Proficiency in both EPLAN and AVEVA Electrical, including database/master data administration in both
• ADDA Certified Drafter, NICET certification, or equivalent credentials
• Experience designing UL 508A listed industrial control panels
• Experience with medium-voltage distribution design (4.16 kV and above), generator connections, and utility interconnection drawings
• Working familiarity with nuclear quality requirements (NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B)
• Experience with electrical installation design in nuclear, cleanroom, glovebox, or contamination-controlled environments
• Experience with CAD automation or scripting (EPLAN API, AutoLISP, or equivalent)

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)

About the company

Valar Atomics aims to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. The company is a team of builders, engineers, and operators focused on deploying factory-made nuclear energy.