Electrical Designer

Electrical Designer

(for Projects in Switzerland)

AFRY

Łódź, Kraków or Poznań, Poland

Job Description

You will be joining the HVAC team located in Bellinzona, Zürich and Lausanne belonging to the Building Services & Environment” Business Unit. This unit has approximately 92 employees globally, including Electrical designers and energy/environmental specialists. With more than 20 years of experience, the group is able to provide architects with all the services they need to develop energy-aware projects and design all the technical components inside the building.

Main focus for this group are projects related to buildings, industrial facilities and data centers.

Your key responsibilities are:

• Design of low and high voltage electrical systems for residential and industrial buildings;
• Design of low and high voltage electrical systems for datacenters;
• Sizing of sensitive high voltage systems using dedicated software (Integra Excel or Schneider Electric);
• 2D drawing (AutoCAD);
• 3D modeling (Revit - BIM);
• Preparation of principle schematics (AutoCAD) for high voltage, low voltage, safety and emergency systems;
• Preparation of multipolar electrical panel schematics;
• Lighting calculations using dedicated software (Relux CAD-Revit).

Qualifications

Must have:

• Minimum 7 years of experience;
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in electrical engineering or vocational training in electrical design;
• Experience in datacenters and industrial facilities;
• Understanding of technical concepts such as redundancy, control, and system integration;
• Knowledge of Swiss and European standards in electrical systems (SIA-EN);
• Familiarity with CDE management (Common Data Environment);
• Coordinating work of junior designers;
• Deep understanding of the BIM process;
• Independent and structured working style;
• Flexibility to deal with challenging projects;
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines and coordinate projects;
• Languages: English B2.

Good to have:

• 8-12 years of experience;
• Proficiency in Revit MEP;
• Generating BoQs from Revit for bids and cost estimates;
• Technical leadership: Evaluation of candidates with potential to lead small teams, which may be useful in the future for coordinating junior modelers;
• Italian or German language skills;
• Remote work capability (you need to be able to operate autonomously in a distributed environment).