Design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use.

Other names for Electrical Engineers: District Plant Engineer, Division Engineer, Division Plant Engineer, Electrical Design Engineer, Electrical Designer, Electrical Electronics Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Electrical Integrator, Electrical Products Engineer, Electrical Prospecting Engineer, Electrical Research Engineer, Electrical Systems Engineer, Electrical Test Engineer, Electrolysis and Corrosion Control Engineer, Electrolysis Engineer, Electrolysis Investigator, Engineer of System Development, Facilities Engineer, Failure Analysis Technician, Illuminating Engineer, Induction Coordination Engineer, Induction Coordination Power Engineer, Laser Engineer, Lighting Engineer, Line Construction Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Meter Engineer, Microwave Supervisor, Outside Plant Engineer, Plant Engineer, Power Distribution Engineer, Power Generation Engineer, Power System Electrical Engineer, Power Transmission Engineer, Protection Engineer, Radio Frequency Engineer (RF Engineer), Relay Engineer, Results Engineer, Rural Electrification Engineer, Service Engineer, Automation Engineer, Broadcast Engineer, Cable Engineer, Controls Engineer, Distribution Engineer, Distribution Field Engineer, Solar Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), Telecommunication Engineer, Telephone Engineer, Test Engineer, Testing Engineer, Traffic Engineer, Traffic Routing Engineer, Transmission Engineer, Utility Engineer, Validation Engineer, Validation Specialist, Wire Communications Engineer,

• Oversee project production efforts to assure projects are completed satisfactorily, on time and within budget.
• Prepare and study technical drawings, specifications of electrical systems, and topographical maps to ensure that installation and operations conform to standards and customer requirements.
• Investigate customer or public complaints, determine nature and extent of problem, and recommend remedial measures.
• Plan layout of electric power generating plants and distribution lines and stations.
• Assist in developing capital project programs for new equipment and major repairs.
• Develop budgets, estimating labor, material, and construction costs.
• Compile data and write reports regarding existing and potential engineering studies and projects.
• Collect data relating to commercial and residential development, population, and power system interconnection to determine operating efficiency of electrical systems.
• Conduct field surveys and study maps, graphs, diagrams, and other data to identify and correct power system problems.
• Confer with engineers, customers, and others to discuss existing or potential engineering projects and products.
• Design, implement, maintain, and improve electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes.
• Operate computer-assisted engineering and design software and equipment to perform engineering tasks.
• Direct and coordinate manufacturing, construction, installation, maintenance, support, documentation, and testing activities to ensure compliance with specifications, codes, and customer requirements.
• Perform detailed calculations to compute and establish manufacturing, construction, and installation standards and specifications.
• Inspect completed installations and observe operations to ensure conformance to design and equipment specifications and compliance with operational and safety standards.
• Plan and implement research methodology and procedures to apply principles of electrical theory to engineering projects.
• Prepare specifications for purchase of materials and equipment.
• Supervise and train project team members as necessary.
• Investigate and test vendors' and competitors' products.

• Accelerometers
• Laboratory safety furnaces
• Scanning probe microscopes
• Spectrometers
• Computer servers
• Corona treaters
• Diffractometers
• Laboratory safety furnaces
• Oscilloscopes
• Digital cameras
• Voltage or current meters
• Tube furnaces
• Spectrometers
• Laboratory evaporators
• Thickness measuring devices
• Laboratory evaporators
• Flow sensors
• Semiconductor process systems
• Frequency counters or timer or dividers
• Frequency calibrator or simulator
• Semiconductor process systems
• Spectrographs
• Electrical inductance sensors
• Notebook computers
• Laser measuring systems
• Semiconductor process systems
• Laboratory evaporators
• Laboratory evaporators
• Laboratory balances
• Microwave core equipment
• Power meters
• Oscilloscopes
• Semiconductor process systems
• Multimeters
• Network analyzers
• Electrical frequency meters
• Laboratory safety furnaces
• Tube furnaces
• Electronic measuring probes
• Transistor transistor logic TTL
• Personal computers
• Computed tomography CT or CAT radiotherapy simulators
• Spectrometers
• Semiconductor process systems
• Reactors
• Plotter printers
• Laser printers
• Surface testers
• Signal generators
• Level generators
• Voltage or current meters
• Pyrometers
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
• Ion implantation equipment
• Oscilloscopes
• Scanning electron microscopes
• Scanning probe microscopes
• Proton spectrometers
• Frequency calibrator or simulator
• Signal generators
• Spectrometers
• Interferometers
• Semiconductor process systems
• Magnetic spin bars or stir bars or stirring beads
• Oscillographs
• Signal generators
• Thermocouples
• Semiconductor process systems
• Tube furnaces
• Transistor circuit testers
• Semiconductor process systems
• Laboratory evaporators
• Signal generators
• Tube furnaces
• Semiconductor process systems
• Semiconductor process systems
• Semiconductor process systems
• X ray generators
• Spectrometers

Project management software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Development environment software

Object or component oriented development software

Program testing software

Requirements analysis and system architecture software

Computer aided design CAD software

Analytical or scientific software

Computer aided manufacturing CAM software