Electrical Engineer

Summary:

The Electrical Engineer designs, develops, integrates, documents, validates, and supports electrical and controls systems for mission-critical HVAC and data center cooling equipment. The position is responsible for translating product and customer requirements into safe, reliable, compliant, manufacturable, and serviceable electrical designs. The engineer works cross-functionally with mechanical engineering, controls/software engineering, applications engineering, manufacturing, quality, certification agencies, suppliers, and field service throughout the product lifecycle.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides electrical design of products/systems such as microprocessor controls and electrical power/control panels for HVAC equipment in accordance with engineering design standards.

• Select and apply disconnects, circuit breakers, fuses, contactors, motor starters, variable-frequency drives, transformers, power supplies, relays, terminal blocks, and related protective devices.
• Perform or document load calculations, conductor sizing, overcurrent-protection selection, control-transformer sizing, voltage-drop evaluation, power-supply loading, and component derating.
• Determine or support equipment short-circuit current rating, including the effect of power-circuit components and branch protection.
• Interpret and apply applicable product-safety, electrical, and equipment-construction requirements. Maintain the electrical design, approved critical-component information, and technical documentation needed to support third-party certification, factory inspections, product changes, and certification-agency reviews. 
• Creates engineering documentation related to the electrical design of HVAC equipment such as design spreadsheets, SAP bill of materials, electrical schematics, sequence of operations, and control panel layouts.
• Provides engineering support and generates technical information for sales, marketing, applications engineering, production and field service groups.
• Evaluates field installations and recommends design modifications to eliminate equipment or systems malfunctions.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or approved equivalent experience.
• Experience developing electrical designs for electromechanical products.  HVAC or motor controls experience preferred.
• Ability to read and create electrical schematics.
• Knowledge of industrial power and control components up to 600VAC.
• Ability to perform and document electrical design calculations.
• Experience troubleshooting electrical and controls systems.
• Ability to communicate technical information across engineering, manufacturing, and service functions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with HVAC, refrigeration, data center cooling, CRAH, CRAC, CDU, chiller, or pump-control equipment.
• Experience with AutoCAD Electrical or Zuken E3.
• Experience creating and maintaining bills of material in SAP or another ERP/MRP system.
• Experience with third-party certification projects.
• Experience with controllers, variable-frequency drives, motors, control transformers, sensors, actuators, and safety circuits.
• Experience working in a configurable engineered-product environment.

Education:

• Minimum BSEE or 4 years minimum experience in performing electrical engineering duties with direct supervision by an engineer.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• N/A

Language Skills:

• Ability to read and understand English instructions.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to perform and document engineering calculations involving electrical loads, current, power, voltage drop, conductor sizing, protective devices, control transformers, power supplies, component tolerances, measurement uncertainty, and basic statistical analysis of test data.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, use hands to finger, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. 

The employee is frequently required to walk and sit.  Individuals must be capable of providing manufacturing/test support through “hands on” approaches.  This involves working in and around the products and systems at the factory or installed at the customer site.  Occasional lifting may be required not to exceed   50    pounds without additional support.  Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an office environment. 

It may be required that individuals work in the manufacturing area when providing manufacturing support.  This work environment may be at higher noise levels and lower air quality.  Individuals may also be required to provide field support for equipment whereby the outside environment may be encountered as well as environments commonly encountered in HVAC equipment installations.