Ready for a role that makes a real impact?
You’re a Senior Electrical Engineer in the Columbus, Ohio Metro area who’s looking for more than the next project—you’re looking for meaningful work.
You enjoy solving complex challenges and delivering thoughtful, innovative solutions for healthcare environments where reliability, safety, and performance matter every day.
You’re confident leading your work from concept through completion, including developing detailed design documents, performing engineering calculations, coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, and preparing accurate project cost estimates.
Colleagues know you as someone who is organized, detail-oriented, and dependable—a professional who takes ownership and consistently delivers high-quality results.
Most importantly, you’re ready for a career with growth, autonomy, and long-term opportunity.
At HEAPY, you won’t just design electrical systems—you’ll help create healthcare spaces that support healing, improve patient experiences, and strengthen communities. If the opportunity to grow your expertise while contributing to critical healthcare projects excites you, we’d love to connect.
The Senior Electrical Engineer independently performs a variety of assignments involving the application of standard electrical design engineering techniques for a small project or selected segments of a larger project. This person must be capable of exercising independent judgment in evaluating, selecting, and applying standard design engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria to make minor design adaptations and modifications. This position requires the colleague to set assignments that have clear and specific objectives and require the investigation of a limited number of variables.
This position normally requires a 4-year engineering degree from an ABET-accredited program and typically 10+ years’ related experience (or equivalent working knowledge/experience/advanced degree in engineering) related to electrical engineering systems in the Built Environment. This includes considerable experience in utilizing various computer software packages and automated electrical engineering and design equipment. An incumbent in this position should be in possession of a Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Certification and be working toward Professional Engineering (PE) Registration. PE registration would be attained within the first 2 years of attaining this position level.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintains clear knowledge of HEAPY Corporate Vision, Mission, and Core Values and demonstrates awareness of how those objectives relate to all position responsibilities.
- Approaches all assigned tasks as an opportunity for growth and experience, modeling the way for other team members.
- Continually advances technical education and personal development aligned with OKRI goals.
- Responsible for the design engineering services following with Corporate Vision, Mission, and Core Values as well as Corporate ISO Systems View(s), and related professional standards, client requirements, and corporate objectives.
- Collaborates with more experienced engineering colleagues to prepare basic plan details and outlines, cost estimates, and perform calculations in support of broader engineering activities involving the design of electrical equipment, components, or systems.
- Lays out full plan designs, plan details and outlines, identifies quantities of materials, cost estimates, and performs calculations for a detailed segment of a project.
- Prepares technical specifications for review and approval.
- Evaluates vendors’ bids and drawings to ensure compliance with specifications.
- Reviews and approves electrical design drawings for assigned segment of project.
- Assists with development of design guides, guide specifications, and design control procedures when directed by Practice Technical Leader.
- Prepares technical reports such as life cycle cost analysis, facility conditions assessments, and other engineering guidance for clients.
- Performs field tests & measurements, collects field data, as necessary.
- Aids and support to proposal teams or proposal managers as requested.
- Collaborates with and supports Design Engineers / Designer I & II colleagues on their technical development and professional growth.
- Collaborates with field observation colleagues to perform field observations and tests, measurements, collect field data, and prepare field reports and related documentation.
- Other duties as assigned.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Ability to remain sedentary at a workstation for long periods of time while operating a keyboard and using a computer screen.
- Ability to communicate in person, electronically, and via phone with other individuals.
- Possession of Reliable transportation to and from the project.
- Ability to work in all elements of indoor and outdoor environments, which include heat, cold, rain, snow, wind, etc.
- Ability to access all areas of the job site with activities that include ascending and descending stairs, scaffolding, ladders, navigating elevation changes, etc.
- Capable of working in physical positions that may include maneuvering oneself into different positions traditionally achieved by kneeling, sitting, standing, squatting, bending over, etc.
- Ability to move, transport, or position items weighing up to 25 lbs.
- Ability to apply established protocols and practices in a timely manner.
- Ability to gather, organize, and evaluate information related to projects and calculations (such as energy calculations, percentages, numerical reasoning, etc.)
NOTE
This job description is not designed to state or imply that the listed responsibilities are the only duties to be performed by the colleague in this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice. All responsibilities and requirements listed are considered essential and may be modified to reasonably accommodate qualified individuals who request such modification due to disabilities. This document does not create an employee contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.
- Built for People, Not Just Projects – a collaborative, colleague-first culture where you can do your best work
- Thrive with HEAPY Benefits – premium medical, dental & vision coverage designed with you in mind
- Invest in Your Future – 401(k) with competitive contributions to help you plan ahead
- Be Rewarded for Your Impact – 10–15% annual bonus potential tied to company performance and your contributions
- Own Your Time – open PTO and paid sick time that gives you the flexibility to recharge when you need it
- Wellness Week – we hit pause the final week of the year so you can rest, reset, and reflect
- Feel Your Best – annual wellness benefit bonus focused on your overall well-being
- Grow with Purpose – annual professional development stipend to support your career goals
Colleagues are at the center of everything we do at HEAPY. By engineering more sustainable, resilient buildings, our colleagues are creating healthy environments that inspire and have a positive impact on the community. In this way, HEAPY creates high-performance buildings to help clients achieve not just their goals for form and function, but also around sustainability commitments, recruitment, retention, productivity, and occupant wellness.
Our Colleague First approach encompasses how we invest in our colleagues here at HEAPY, as well as the way we engage with clients. Through active listening, creative collaboration, and support that extends throughout a building’s life cycle, we are creating a more rewarding engagement.
Our national portfolio speaks to the HEAPY team’s MEP engineering, technology engineering, commissioning, and construction administration expertise. But what truly sets us apart is the belief that continually investing in our colleagues is good for our clients, our communities, and our company.
HEAPY’s Colleague First culture reflects an environment in which people feel heard and respected, one where we take pride in delivering upon the core values of our organization. This support enables our colleagues to better guide clients through challenging design decisions and build the trust that enables unparalleled engineering solutions.
