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Track

Executive

Family rungs priced

E1 · E2 · E3 · E4 · E5

11-0000

industrial_energy_operations

Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Executive responsible for the strategy, standards, and delivery of electrical power and signaling engineering across the organization. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.

What this level does

Leads the electrical engineering sub-function through Directors/managers, owning the technical strategy for the design and development of electrical equipment, systems, and the structures or facilities that house them
Sets the technical standards and design guidelines the discipline builds to, and holds accountability for the quality-assurance regime that evaluates project work for effectiveness, technical adequacy, and compatibility in resolving complex engineering problems
Owns the function's estimation and resourcing discipline — sizing, cost, time, and material requirements for development and production projects — and defends those estimates in cross-executive budget decisions
Governs the direction of installation, industrial-production, and equipment maintenance/repair activities across the function, resolving escalations with serious functional and business consequences
Interfaces with peer executives and major customers to align the electrical engineering roadmap and CAD/CAE toolchain investment with committed programs

Knowledge applied: Deep functional strategy for electrical engineering with detailed company and product knowledge — applies mastery of electrical/system design, CAD/CAE toolchains, estimation, and technical-adequacy evaluation to direct a complete sub-function.
Complexity & problem solving: Resolves complex engineering problems with serious functional and business consequences; sets the technical standards and quality gates the discipline works to rather than solving individual designs.
Collaboration & interaction: Leads the function through Directors (M5-equivalent); interfaces with peer executives and major customers on roadmap and toolchain investment.
Typical experience: 12–15+ years of combined electrical engineering and management experience, including ownership of design, estimation, and production-direction activities.

Skills at this level

Electrical engineering portfolio strategy: — Sets the multi-year technical direction for the design and development of electrical equipment, systems, and the structures or facilities that house them, aligning platform and architecture choices with enterprise business needs.
Engineering technical-standards governance: — Establishes and enforces the technical standards, design guidelines, and quality gates that the electrical engineering discipline builds to, ensuring consistency across teams, divisions, and business units.
Technical-adequacy evaluation at scale: — Owns the enterprise regime for evaluating project work to ensure effectiveness, technical adequacy, and compatibility in the resolution of complex electrical engineering problems.
Engineering estimation and resource governance: — Directs how the function determines resource, size, cost, time, and material requirements for electrical development and production projects, and defends those estimates in executive budget decisions.
Installation and production direction: — Governs the direction of installation, industrial-production, and equipment maintenance/repair activities that flow from electrical designs, arbitrating contention between engineering and production functions.
Enterprise technical risk ownership: — Holds the enterprise position on electrical-equipment reliability, safety, and production capability where systemic design or quality failure carries critical strategic and corporate consequence.
Board and external technical representation: — Represents the electrical engineering discipline to the board, CEO, industry bodies, standards participation, and major customers on the portfolio's direction, risk, and investment case.
Cross-functional executive negotiation: — Negotiates critical technical and commercial matters on the electrical engineering portfolio with top company leaders and strategic customers, resolving high-consequence cross-functional trade-offs.
CAD/CAE capability investment: — Directs investment in and organizational adoption of computer-assisted engineering/design toolchains used to perform electrical engineering design and analysis at scale.
Engineering knowledge advancement: — Sponsors the review of engineering principles and theories to further the field's knowledge within the enterprise and connects that advancement to long-range business direction.

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Pay across the ladder

Electrical Engineering — median with , by . Real canon data.

National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so dollar levels are not function-adjusted (level-over-level % is unaffected).

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 11-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+8.3%Architectural and Engineering Managers · United States

194,250 → 210,340 jobs

14,500 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 13,693

Growth — new jobs (6%)Exits — backfill (94%)

6% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +3.8%
Growth share of hiring: 6%
Exit / retention pressure high: 94%
Openings / year: 14,500

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level E1 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$282k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$253k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$234k

Boulder, CO$231k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$231k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$221k

Lexington Park, MD$216k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$214k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $169k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates E1 (E1 — Director (Executive)) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A significant function with strategic authority
Autonomy: Sets functional strategy
Complexity: Strategic and cross-functional
Impact: Function-wide enterprise impact
Decision rights: Owns strategy and investment for the function
Leadership: Executive leadership of a function

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from E1 is E2.

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People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Electrical Engineering Supervisor	jf_electrical_engineering::M1	$85,619†	confident0.06
Associate Electrical Engineer	jf_electrical_engineering::P1	$61,862†	confident0.06
Electrical Technician I	jf_electrical_engineering::S1	$37,323†	confident0.06
SVP of Electrical Engineering	jf_electrical_engineering::E2	$322,728†	confident0.06

†National-base pricing — this family's function differential is pending review, so the dollar level is not function-adjusted.

Capability cluster

O*NET 11-9041

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

E1

jf_electrical_engineering::E1

VP of Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: E
Superfunction: industrial_energy_operations
Function: engineering_expansion
Family: electrical_engineering
Universal level: 1 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

Aeronautical · E1review0.17

Agricultural · E1review0.17

Agronomist · E1review0.17

Application Services · E1review0.17

Chemical · E1review0.17

Communication · E1review0.17

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

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Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 11-9041	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

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Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-30Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)