Electrical Engineer at Woodard and Curran in Portland, Maine

Job Description:

Woodard & Curran is a national engineering, science, and operations firm with a simple vision for clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. As an employee-owned company, we strive to cultivate diverse teams and encourage collaboration in an equitable and inclusive culture. We seek talented individuals from all backgrounds to help us address a broad range of water and environmental issues. We prioritize our people, offering opportunities for professional growth, ownership, and flexibility. That's how we make a difference to our clients, people, and the planet.

Who We Are Looking For:

We want to add an experienced and motivated Electrical Engineer to our electrical engineering group. The successful candidate will join an established, respected, and growing team providing electrical engineering services to our practices across the firm. As an Electrical Engineer at Woodard & Curran, you will work on electrical distribution, relaying, power generation, motor control, and lighting projects for our industrial, water, wastewater, municipal, design-build, and plant operations clients on a regional and national basis. You will interface with clients to understand their power, lighting, and motor control requirements for municipal, utility, and industrial facilities. You will also prepare and coordinate engineering reports, studies, calculations, drawings, and specifications. In addition, you will perform construction phase services such as shop drawing review and contractor oversight.

Your work will come in varying degrees of complexity. Although you will work independently on most projects, our experienced staff will be there to support you collaboratively as a team. You will support our project managers with the technical delivery of projects or tasks within scope, schedule, and budget. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver electrical design solutions consistent with process, mechanical, and control system requirements in a consulting environment. Our diverse portfolio of projects means you will have the chance to work across different markets and geographies.
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What You Will Be Doing at Woodard & Curran:

• Perform all general technical duties as described but with increased independence and responsibility.


• Assignments may include equipment selection, preparation of engineering plans and details, specifications, written reports, utilization of modeling software for engineering evaluation, and other task-based activities specific to a defined and limited part of the overall project scope.


• May be assigned to short-term field assignments.


• Responsible for understanding project and assignment scope, schedule, and budget.


• Responsible for understanding personal utilization goals.


• Supported the preparation of cost estimates for new projects.


• May work directly with clients, subcontractors, and/or regulatory agencies to gather information and respond to questions.


• The list of duties is intended to be optional, and other duties may be assigned as needed.

What you need to succeed:

• A B.S. degree in engineering, FE, or EIT is preferred.


• 2 + years relevant experience or a Master's degree in a related field.


• Membership in appropriate Professional/Technical Society.

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$65,000 - $98,000 a year

This position's anticipated pay range is provided below; final exempt salary or non-exempt hourly pay will depend on experience level and consider a percentage-based geographic differential based on where the final candidate will be working. Geographic differentials recognize and reflect the cost of labor differences between geographic markets.
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Benefits & Wellbeing

Retirement Savings:

• 401(k) Pre-tax or Roth Contributions: Company will match equal to 100% of the first 3% of salary contributed, All employees are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan and are 100% vested in the value of own contributions and any employer matching contributions.

Time away from work:

• Vacation time is provided to full and part-time regular employees. Vacation is accrued, based on number of hours worked per week as well as prior years of experience.

• Woodard & Curran offers paid sick time to eligible employees who are absent due to their own non-work related, illness, injury, or medical procedure.

• Woodard & Curran provides up to 80 hours of Paid Parental Leave for child bonding in a 12-month period.

• Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance from Sun Life to assist with replacing a portion of your income in the event of non-job-related illness or injury. Eligible employees are automatically enrolled and eligible immediately.

Coverage and support for your needs and wellbeing:

Personal and Family health: Company offers three medical plan options based on geography; plus HSA and PSA plans are available based on eligibility, additional options include dental and vision plans.

Company provides basic employee group life insurance and AD&D benefits; additional voluntary life insurance for employee and family are available through Sun Life.

WayForward powered by Dario: EAP Program combined with personalized mental health and wellbeing coaching.

LiveWell wellbeing program: credit incentive is available, up to $600 annually - nutrition and fitness reimbursement, and access to the Virgin Pulse wellness platform.

Education: Tuition assistance offers eligible employees up to 100% reimbursement of tuition, books and fees up to $5250 per year, for courses related to the employee's job or planned career development.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement

Woodard & Curran is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans are encouraged to apply. We are committed to ensuring our employment practices are non-discriminatory and based solely on job-related factors. To read our entire Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement, click here . To view the Workplace Discrimination Is Illegal poster and supplement, click here .

If you have a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to apply, please contact Beth Sweitzer .

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We value diversity, equity and inclusion and encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

Woodard & Curran believes that complex teams working together in an equitable, inclusive space provides the best opportunity for achieving our vision of clean water, a safe environment, healthy communities, and happy people. Our success is tied to a culture that embraces our differences so that everyone can bring their whole, authentic selves to work. When our people are supported to reach their full potential, we provide the most innovative, sound, and effective solutions.