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LEAD ELECTRICAL DESIGN ENGINEER - JACKSONVILLE,FL/ FREMONT,CA/ VANCOUVER,BC/ REMOTE
Purpose of Position

This position is responsible for leading projects of all complexity assigned to the Special Projects engineering group with a focus on repeatable orders involving Power Distribution Equipment.

Essential Functions:

  • Serve as lead engineer on projects for Strategic Platform Clients involving high-volume, custom-designed and manufactured products.
  • Proactively suggest novel solutions to problems as they arise.
  • Optimize repeatable designs for manufacturing.
  • Assign day-to-day project engineering tasks to junior engineers. 
  • Check in with engineers regularly to identify issues that could lead to missed due dates or design issues. Find solutions to keep jobs on track. Be a resource when the design engineer has questions. 
  • Provide insight, product solutions and reference projects to enable success of the electrical design engineering team. 
  • Provide mentorship and encourage growth and technical/professional advancement in the teams. 
  • Complete drawings reviews. Review drawings for accuracy, application of IEM standards, industry standards and constructability. 
  • Provide on-boarding and training for new engineering and support team members. 
  • Provide training exercises for the electrical design engineering team. 
  • Schedule meetings with manufacturing leaders at multiple build locations that are assigned the same product to identify issues, concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Schedule and perform kick-off meetings for new orders and new clients.
  • Work closely with applications engineering during handoff of initial Basis-of-Design. 
  • Work with the test department and production staff to help coordinate testing of complex products.

Competencies:

  • Advanced knowledge of 3 phase electrical system design concepts
  • Strong technical capability
  • Understanding NRTL certifications and UL listings, eg. UL891, UL1558, UL67, IEEE C37.20, CSA
  • Project/task management and the ability to carry out a plan that moves a task to completion
  • Ability to interact directly with customers, sales, other technical resources and management.
  • Ability to organize tasks and explain complex subjects to junior engineering team members in a way that they can understand
  • Leadership skills
  • Takes ownership over projects and provides oversight to a larger cross-functional team
  • Time management
  • Attention to detail and thoroughness
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills
  • Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.
  • Minimum of 3 years of design experience in power products 
  • Excellent working knowledge of MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.).
  • Working knowledge of AutoCAD drafting software.

Salary Range:

$90,000-$130,000 

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