Principal Electrical Engineer

Acts as key contact for critical commercial and project management conversations.

Owns and develops methods to ensure process continuity, revision control, and process life cycle management.

Lead team continuous improvement initiates by hosting Kaizen events.

Improves end-to-end performance within the ETO supply chain.

Delivers switchboard designs, BOMs & drawings for Switchboard product.

Delegates work assignments, among teammates.

Acts as a technical reference point among teammates.

Provides engineering support for supply chain functions.

Creates opportunities to reduce end to end complexity using design for manufacturing principles.

Leverages component reuse and design modularity to improve supply chain and quality performance.

Collaborates with local and remote teammates to develop and enhance best practices.

Requires work schedule flexibility supporting production during the week, weekends, and across shifts.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:


* Lead weekly progress meetings.


* Communicate and demonstrate benefits of design for manufacturing, late adaptation, modular and universal design principles.


* Develop Documents and work aids to facilitate team training.


* Design electrical and power distribution switchboard and switchgear equipment.


* Use power distribution and product knowledge to develop solutions to customer requests.


* Maximize part reuse and standard assembly modification to suit application and generate BOMS.


* Design electro-mechanical parts for switchboards and switchgear manufacturability by using CAD software.


* Identify and implement opportunities to improve supply chain performance.

Increase universal designs and reduce total unique parts.


* Work directly with Manufacturing associates to solicit feedback on improvements in design.


* Create electrical and power distribution schematics and other diagrams using ECAD..


* Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, planning, materials & project management personnel to meet program goals.


* Understand Kaizen methodology.


* Work in a manufacturing environment.


* Provide product technical training to engineering teams.

REQUIREMENTS:


* Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Power Engineering degree


* 4+ yrs.

experience with low voltage switchboard and/or switchgear design, installation, and use.

& 4+ yrs.

experience with ECAD Electrical drawing software.


* 4+ yrs.

experience working in manufacturing.


* Experience with PLC programming, Modbus and TCP/IP communications, Ethernet interfaces.


* Experience with Modified Differential Ground fault systems.


* Crosstrain with basic Mechanical Engineering.


* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.


* Experience with designing and modeling parts and assemblies given basic conceptual information.


* Strong problem solving, interpersonal and customer relation skills.


* Must be self-motivated and proactive.
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