Senior Electrical/ Critical Systems’ Commissioning Agent

This Opportunity

WSP USA is initiating a search for a Full-time Electrical/ Critical Systems’ Commissioning Agent for our New York office. Other office locations considered are New Jersey, Philadelphia and Virginia.

Job Description

Our engineers work on high quality, high-profile, national and international projects. The successful candidate will be responsible for the execution of building commissioning processes (new/re/retro/continuous), energy auditing and building retrofit applications, support for sustainability certification applications, and measurement and verification techniques.

WSP USA offers excellent growth opportunities: Many of our senior leaders started out as young engineers in our firm. Initially, you will work under the supervision, training, and guidance of the senior commissioning leadership. Preliminary participation in business development activities will also be encouraged.

Specific Requirements:

• Proficient with 480-Volt electrical systems, executing / witnessing electrical testing utilizing equipment such as power quality meters, circuit breaker test sets, contact/insulation resistance meters and infrared cameras.

• Experience with Uninterruptable Power Supply’s’ (UPS), Back Up Battery Systems, Static Switches (STS) and Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), Emergency Generators and Power Distribution Units (PDUs).

• Experience with 5kV -26kV systems and protection relays is preferred.

• Experience with witnessing and executing pre-functional, functional and integrated electrical testing.

• Knowledge of NETA, IEEE and NFPA-70 electrical testing standards.

• Experience with Short Circuit/Coordination/ Arc Flash Studies.

• Good understanding of the architectural, engineering and construction industry.

• Experience with sustainable design practices or facilities operations is preferred.

• Ability to work independently and provide supervision in a highly collaborative team environment.

Your Impact

• Assist with collecting, compiling, and analyzing data from the physical work site during various construction phases, surveys, blueprints, schematics, data, technical drawings, flow diagrams, computer-generated reports, and other matrices for project energy auditing actions, validation, and commissioning.