Electrical Engineering Associate II

RS&H, Inc.


Electrical Engineering Associate II

US-IL-Chicago

Job ID: 2026-8097
# of Openings: 1
Category: Electrical
Chicago

Overview

Employee-owned, RS&H is one of the nation’s leading architecture, engineering, and consulting firms, with associates who work hard every day to create tomorrow together. We offer an exceptional journey from start to future. Our integrated teams translate experience into insight, turn challenges into opportunities, and build relationships that are as strong as the buildings and infrastructure we deliver together. We attribute our success to our unwavering commitment to our core values: integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork.

Responsibilities

Our team designs facilities for clients in the Corporate, Healthcare, Science, Federal, Aviation, and Technology industries. By working with our clients and listening to their needs, we gather a deep understanding of their desired outcomes, practicing creativity and innovation along the way. Become part of a team that’s redefining client service and success in a rapidly changing world.

Qualifications

RS&H is currently seeking an Electrical Engineering Associate to join our Buildings Engineering team in Chicago, IL.

 

If you are ready to grow your electrical engineering career on meaningful building projects, this is a strong next step. At RS&H, you will join an employee-owned architecture, engineering, and consulting firm with a long history of delivering integrated solutions across corporate, federal, healthcare, science, and other facility-focused markets. Our Buildings teams help create environments where people work, heal, learn, research, and connect, and your work will directly support the systems that make those spaces safe, reliable, efficient, and future-ready.

 

In this role, you will support electrical design efforts for small to moderately complex building projects while continuing to build technical depth, client awareness, and practical design judgment. You will work alongside multidisciplinary architects, engineers, designers, and project managers to develop coordinated design solutions from concept through construction.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Design electrical systems that bring buildings to life, including power distribution, lighting, low-voltage systems, and other facility infrastructure
• Contribute to coordinated building design solutions by partnering with architects, engineers, designers, contractors, and clients from concept through construction
• Prepare drawings, construction documents, technical reports, calculations, visual aids, and design deliverables using current design and production software
• Apply electrical engineering standards, codes, criteria, and regulations while building the judgment to adapt solutions to each project’s needs
• Support design requirements, impact studies, cost analyses, and field reviews for small to moderately complex building projects
• Grow your technical confidence through hands-on project work, construction observations, and collaboration with experienced Buildings professionals

Why RS&H?

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary Buildings teams across the U.S., bringing architecture, engineering, interiors, and project delivery expertise together to solve complex facility challenges.
• Contribute to facility-focused projects in markets such as corporate, healthcare, federal, science, and workplace environments
• Grow in an employee-owned firm where associates are encouraged to take ownership of their careers and the quality of their work
• Join a team guided by RS&H’s purpose of Creating Tomorrow, Together and values of integrity, accountability, curiosity, and teamwork

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university
• Minimum of 3+ years of relevant electrical engineering experience
• Experience using production software and preparing construction documents
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build effective working relationships with clients, contractors, team members, and other project stakeholders
• Must be a U.S. Person per client requirement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Engineer Intern (EI) certification is strongly preferred
• Experience supporting electrical design for building or facility projects
• Interest in growing toward greater technical responsibility, client coordination, and professional licensure

If this sounds like the role for you and you're ready to join an amazing team, please apply.

 

The salary range for this position in Chicago is $75,000–$115,000 per year, representing the employer’s goodfaith estimate at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be based on jobrelated skills, experience, internal equity, and geographic location, where applicable.

This role may also be eligible for additional compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, an employee assistance program, retirement and financial protection programs (401(k), short and longterm disability), paid time off (including holidays and paid parental leave), and HSA funding up to $1,200 annually.

 

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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