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Job overview
Jacobs is seeking a Senior Electrical Designer to support advanced-facility projects, including semiconductor manufacturing and data centers. The role involves drafting and designing electrical power distribution, lighting, and grounding systems using AutoCAD and Revit, and coordinating complex design packages with engineers and design leads. The designer also develops staffing plans, mentors subordinates, and guides less experienced designers and drafters.
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Full job description
At Jacobs, we don’t settle - always looking beyond to raise the bar and deliver with excellence. We apply our expertise and knowledge as we look into the future with great optimism and focus. We don’t settle until we give our best and know that we’re making a difference.
We're looking for an Senior Electrical Designer who is excited about working on projects that enable the heart of our clients’ business. Join us and you’ll have the chance to work on projects including semiconductor manufacturing, data center facilities, and other state of the art manufacturing facilities. Come be a part of a vibrant, dynamic team that delivers world class designs for well-known clients around the world. You’ll thrive as you perform computer-aided drafting and design of electrical power distribution, lighting, and grounding systems for our clients' advanced facilities. Utilizing AutoCAD and Revit, you’ll create layouts, sketches, 2D/3D modeling, and electronic document files. Our designers are responsible for delivery of complex packages in coordination with engineers and design leads and form the core of our electrical delivery team
You’ll also develop staffing plans based on deliverables to be produced and the project schedule, gain familiarity with the client’s expectations, scope, budget and schedule for assigned tasks, mentor subordinates, and provide guidance to less experienced designer / drafters. Come be a part of a vibrant, dynamic team that delivers world class designs for well-known clients around the world.
Bring your curiosity, talent for multi-tasking and collaboration, and extreme organizational skills and we’ll help you grow, pursue and fulfill what drives you - so we can make big impacts on the world, together.
Here’s what you’ll need:
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High school graduate or equivalent
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At Least 8 years of relevant experience in design utilizing 3-D modeling / drafting
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Proficiency in Revit and AutoCAD
Ideally, you’ll also have:
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Knowledge and application of NEC and electrical design requirements
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Two year Associate’s Degree in relevant field
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3 years of semiconductor experience
Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.
How this job compares
Set against the 651 open Electrical Designer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$75–104K/yr24 salary ranges
- US median$33–45/hr108 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 32 open Electrical Designer jobs in Illinois and 651 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Sargent & Lundy14 open
- Jacobs (this employer)5 open
- Actalent3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Electrical Designer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (546 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 324 of the 651 open Electrical Designer jobs (50%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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