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    Job Description

    Job Title: Lead Electrical Design Engineer

    Department: Electrical Engineering

    Reports To: Strategic Projects Engineering Manager

    Location: Jacksonville, FL (Onsite) – can also provide relocation support


    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 the company 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.


    WHY CHOOSE THIS JOB?

    • This role offers a competitive compensation package with fully-paid company benefits for employees.
    • The company is growing 40-50% YOY with more than a 6 year backlog of projects. You will have a lot of opportunity to grow your career on both the technical and leadership side. Many manager and director level roles will be opening in the near-term to progress into. As well, the company has a great culture and takes care of employees.

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