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Job overview
The Electrical Engineering Lead designs and oversees electrical systems for building and facility projects, including life science, pharmaceutical, healthcare, hospital, and data center work. The role manages multiple projects, directs design teams, prepares analyses, drawings, reports, and specifications, and coordinates with other engineering disciplines and architects. It is hybrid, with two days per week in a local Jacobs office; candidates must work within Central or Eastern time zones.
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Full job description
As an Electrical Engineering Lead, you will be joining a team that provides a range of skills as part of an integrated building services design. Our diverse range of skills include power system planning, power distribution, lighting design, fire and life safety systems, low and medium voltage distribution systems for such projects as Life Science and Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and hospital clients.
While working in this role you’ll be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously including design and perform calculations for lighting systems and associated controls, prepare load analysis for different stages of design, prepare drawings detailing the system designed, prepare basis of design report for the project, prepare and document Energy compliance calculations and forms, select equipment and fixtures for use in the building and coordinate work with engineers of other disciplines and architects. With our team of Electrical Engineers and Designers you’ll utilize your exceptional design and analysis skills, to plan and design electrical systems for buildings and facilities, including data centers and pharmaceutical/life science research/healthcare.
What you'll do
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Design full low and medium voltage electrical systems and oversee the design of lighting, fire alarm and signaling systems
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Design lighting systems including associated control systems
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Prepare load analysis for each stage of design
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Direct a design team in preparation of detailed project electrical systems drawings
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Prepare basis of design report for the project
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Prepare and document project energy compliance to applicable energy codes
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Select and prepare specifications for electrical equipment
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Coordinate work with engineers of other disciplines (mechanical, life safety, etc.) and with project architects
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Maintain confidentiality with clients and projects.
This is a hybrid position (2 days/week in a local Jacobs office). While our preference is to hire for our Philadelphia, PA office, we are open to candidates located in cities or states near other Jacobs offices, provided they are able to work within the Central or Eastern time zones. No immigration sponsorship is available for this position.
What you’ll need
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Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE)
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Professional Engineer license (PE)
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12+ years of Electrical Engineering experience, including the following:
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Experience working for a MEP firm required focusing on Mission Critical applications, experience designing medium-voltage distribution systems and emergency generation
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Proficient in Revit, 3D CADD, SKM and/or eTap Power Tools, Bentley BIM
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Knowledge of NFPA Codes and Standards, i.e.; 70,70E,130,502,101,110, etc.
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Working knowledge of other building systems (e.g. door finish hardware, IT building communications, lighting controls and BAS networks) as these relate electrical systems
Ideally, you'll also have
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
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How this job compares
Set against the 3,268 open Electrical Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$120–185K/yr65 salary ranges
- US median$25–35/hr286 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 90 open Electrical Engineering jobs in Illinois and 3,268 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Sargent & Lundy15 open
- Oracle10 open
- Jacobs (this employer)6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Electrical Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 2,252 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,598 of the 3,268 open Electrical Engineering jobs (49%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 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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