
Electrical Engineer
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Job overview
The Electrical Engineer independently evaluates project plans and specifications prepared by design professionals, coordinating reviews with architecture and engineering disciplines. The role addresses complex design and construction issues, supports code and standards compliance, contributes to discipline-specific standards, and performs value-management studies across design and construction phases. It also involves coordination with University personnel, record keeping, and maintaining the required discipline license and continuing education.
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Full job description
As technical expert, independently evaluate the plans and specifications for projects prepared by other architects, engineers, and other design professionals. Perform reviews in conjunction with and coordinated with other disciplines of architecture and engineering meeting the agreed review schedule. Review to ensure the projects meet UT adopted codes, standards, programmatic needs, sustainability goals, and to minimize the effects of inflationary construction costs.Works independently in resolving highly complex and technical issues related to design and construction.Apply related professional skills and knowledge during construction to provide compliance with building codes and UT Standards as directed by supervision.Participate in providing input and updating the related discipline specific requirements in the UT Austin Standards.Assist and interact with Facilities Maintenance and other University personnel throughout all project phases as directed by supervision.Ensure associated required record-keeping systems are maintained.Perform value management engineering studies and evaluation of schematic design, preliminary design, and when so determined in construction management costing or post-bid costing to achieve aesthetic and technical value at reduced or increased costs consistent with life cycle costs for maintenance, durability, and energy conservation.Secure and maintain required discipline license including any continued education criterion.Other duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 10,173 open Electrical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$115–160K/yr467 salary ranges
- Texas median$48–65/hr33 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,046 open Electrical Engineer jobs in Texas and 10,173 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Electrical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (8,503 postings).
- Education
- 6,933 of the 10,173 open Electrical Engineer jobs (68%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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