Electrical Engineer

Job Title : Electrical Engineer.

Type: Contract to direct hire / full time.

Location : Florence, South Carolina United States

Pay + Benefits + Relocation assistance.

Job Summary:

• The Engineer is responsible for electrical system integration.
• The position will play a crucial role in new product development, maintaining product integrity, evaluating change opportunities, and integrating new component designs into existing systems.
• Working to meet agreed upon cost and schedule commitments.
• Will include the development of new components and features.
• The candidate should be able to read and understand schematics and wiring diagrams, analyze complex problems to identify root cause and develop innovative solutions.
• Ability to work across disciplines with mechanical engineers, software engineers, manufacturing personnel, and field personnel is required.

Responsibilities:

• The position will play a crucial role in New Product Introduction, evaluating opportunities, and integrating new component designs into existing systems, while working to meet agreed upon cost and schedule commitments.
• Work with global and regional, multi-functional teams in support of NPI engineering activities including needs analysis, functional allocation, Cost to benefit analysis, architecture development and evaluation, trade off analysis and risk assessment.
• Perform Electrical Qualification Testing for NPI projects/ Products.
• Prepare or support system level design failure mode and effects analyses for each end-to-end feature/product prior to development start and verify requirements and design with modelling, simulation, and test as required.
• The candidate should be able to read and understand schematics, wiring diagrams, mechanical assembly drawings, building layouts in order to analyze complex problems and identify root cause issues and develop innovative solutions. Ability to work across disciplines with mechanical engineers, software engineers, manufacturing personnel, and field personnel.
• Hands-on integration, validation, verification and troubleshooting of pre-production systems and workflows.
• Support current strategic plans, roadmaps, engineering tasks and testing for Electrical systems, services and features within the product framework.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of power distribution, protection, and control systems
• Experience with electrical codes and standards
• Understanding of power components, distribution and protection, controls theory and application
• Electrical engineering background with wiring diagrams, system analysis, motor, and control applications
• Experience working with suppliers/3rd parties, with national, local code and enforcement agencies. i.e. CSA, ASME, NFPA, TSSA, NEC Preferred
• Experience with ECAD tools such as Cadence, PSpice, ViewLogic, AutoCad, E3
• Experience working across disciplines with mechanical engineers, software engineers, manufacturing personnel, and field personnel.
• Experienced in PCB design.
• Understanding of PCB assembly and other manufacturing processes
• Experience with test and measurement equipment
• Ability to take abstract ideas and formulate or support plans to create product requirements within existing eco-system constraints, timing pressures and customer expectations to identify a solution that achieves quality objectives.
• Hands-on lab experience with electrical architectures, embedded software designs and test equipment to support test, integration, and troubleshooting.
• Sound electrical engineering background (one or more of the following wiring diagrams, systems analysis).

Education & Experience Requirement:

• Electrical / Electronic Engineering Bachelor's degree 2+ years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.