Graduate Engineer - Electrical

HBK Engineering is seeking entry-level electrical engineering candidates, including recent graduates, who have an interest in working in the energy sector.

HBK is transforming essential infrastructure to achieve a sustainable future and empower the communities where we live and work. 

Since first opening our doors in 1998, HBK Engineering has quickly emerged as a leader in the utility infrastructure space through our experience on smart grid, modernization, resiliency, communications, fiber to the home (FTTH), and microgrid projects. Today, we’re a Quanta Services Company—a team of 43,000 dedicated individuals offering end-to-end solutions for the utility, energy, and construction industries. 

Team members at HBK Engineering are committed to designing the future we want to live in, and safety is at the center of everything we do. HBK Engineering offers a professional environment where you’ll work alongside some of the best talent in the industry. We offer excellent benefits, competitive salary, employee resource groups, and a community-focused environment where our staff members believe in giving back. At HBK Engineering, you’ll discover a culture where the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are exemplified by all. Better outcomes are achieved when we bring our authentic selves to work daily. 

Our sights are set on the future, and we invite you to rise to the challenge. 

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to:

• Perform field walkdowns with internal staff, clients, customers, governance authorities, and construction partners.
• Independently manage time and schedule to achieve project milestones.
• Travel as needed, typically <25%.
• Work with project management and engineering leadership to manage project risk.
• Perform engineering calculations relating to power flow, thermal ampacity, load diversification, wind/ice loading, cable pulling, and protective device coordination.
• Own all phases of the design lifecycle from initiation through construction completion and project closeout.
• Prepare reports and studies meeting client requirements that present technical information in a clear and concise manner.
• Prepare materials and equipment purchase specifications.
• Design medium and low voltage power systems in compliance with relevant specifications, codes, and client requirements for applications including new business, smart grid, resiliency, communications, modernization, and subsurface utility projects.
• Deploy creative and unique solutions to address a wide variety of complex electrical, structural, civil, and construction-related challenges.
• Prepare detailed design documents using a variety of software tools including AutoCAD, GIS systems, and client-specific enterprise asset management platforms.
• Communicate complex engineering matters to a variety of project stakeholders.
• Work with project management and engineering leadership to identify and engage all relevant project stakeholders including system planning, construction, community members, governance authorities, and client project management to guarantee project success.

Minimum Qualifications

• 0 to 3 years of experience.
• The persistence to see projects through to completion.
• Ability to come up to speed quickly on in-process projects and hit the ground running.
• Understanding of remote communication software.
• BSEE from ABET accredited institution.
• Strong technology skills and an understanding of the Office365 suite of tools.
• Experience collaborating with a team in order to complete a larger project.
• Adaptable to change.
• An ability to work independently and in interdisciplinary teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• US driver’s license.
• US work authorization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior engineering internship experience.
• EIT certification.
• Project management, surveying/field work, and/or construction experience.
• Experience using CAD-based software.
• Knowledge of three-phase power systems.

Background Check and Drug Testing Information
Offers contingent upon satisfactory results from our standard background check and receipt of results of a satisfactory drug screening test from a location specified by HBK.