Sr Electrical Engineer

Job Description:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering in Denton TX, the Senior Electrical Engineer is a technical leader and senior contributor in the development of electrical designs for new products. Focus centered on inverter-based power supplies for the heavy industrial plasma cutting industry. Position requires in-depth knowledge of hardened electrical design practices for industrial equipment.

Primary Duties

• Development of various electrical aspects of new product designs, often requiring significant innovation. Requires high level understanding of inverter-based power supplies.
• Developing and testing designs from concept through to manufacture release.
• Appraisal of integrity of electrical product designs.
• Identification of new technologies and development techniques.
• Design validation testing. Requires expertise in determining which variables are important, ability to instrument and take accurate data and generating accurate analysis using acquired design and laboratory skills.
• Presentation of test and/or analysis results and design ideas both orally and written in a clear and informative manner providing all pertinent facts, figures, and proof of assumptions.
• Contributor to the development of engineering and product specification, generation of cost estimates and development schedules.
• Hands on building and testing of prototype designs.
• Sustaining of existing product including trouble shooting field issues and addressing existing design issues.
• Expected to provide technical direction and mentoring to others.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering.

• Strong technical and analytical skills with demonstrated experience as technical project leader.
• Printed Circuit board design and layout.
• Competent in analog control circuits, digital control circuits, inverter power management, data collection and test methods.
• Technical expertise in five or more of the following: analog control circuits; digital control circuits; digital signal processing using micro-controllers, micro-processors, or digital signal processors; conventional power management; switching power management; power factor correction.

Working Conditions

• Remains in a stationary position 50% of the time and involves additional physical demands such as ascending/descending stairs, walking stooping and standing.
• Must wear Personal Protective Equipment 'PPE' when working/visiting manufacturing and plant locations.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery including but not limited to printer, tablets, cell phones.
• Moves transports, puts, or removes equipment weighing up to 50 lbs.; pushes, pulls products weighing up to 200 lbs. using provided safety tools.
• May be exposed to varying weather during travel.
• Domestic Travel up to 15%.