Senior Electrical Engineer

Team/Position Summary & Location

The Electronics & Light Engine team is on the cutting edge of technology and touches all facets of Acuity's Lighting business. This position supports Acuity's Indoor, Outdoor, Industrial, OEM, and Residential portfolios, where your efforts directly impact top-line revenue and bottom-line margin through new product development, value engineering activities, product enhancements, and new technology integrations. The Electronics & Light Engine group innovates and ideates direction and solutions for all Acuity illumination products. Electronics Engineering is key in Acuity's illumination systems strategic vision, innovative solution designs, and product lifecycle management. 

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you're exposed to various aspects of Acuity, including Engineering, Optics, Supply Chain, Finance, and Product Management. You're responsible for new product design, cost reductions, field quality resolution, manufacturing support, and sustaining engineering activities related to Electronics & Light Engines. The ideal candidate has experience independently exploring innovations to be brilliant, productive, and connected, providing product ideation, electronics hardware design, firmware creation/updates, LED selection, PCB design/layout creation, UV/Horticulture designs, PCBA drawing creation, along with selection of drivers, surge protection devices, emergency battery backup equipment, and luminaire electronic controls. Responsibilities include prototyping, testing, and assembling prototypes/samples required for evaluating designs and cost reductions. The Senior Electrical Engineer manages projects simultaneously in collaboration with engineering and design.They teach and mentor other engineers, and work with manufacturing and distribution facilities and product management to ensure successful product launches. The Senior Electrical Engineer applies LEAN Process methodology in projects and daily tasks to streamline and improve processes.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Independently complete design activities, including selecting electronics and LED components, creating firmware solutions for microprocessor-based solutions, LED drivers, and selecting system controls to provide an integrated high-quality light engine solution.  
• Calculate parameters for Electronics and LED schematic configurations while working with the Optics team to provide correct lumens targets and lumens per watt to enable specific light distribution.
• Develop and distribute engineering data in the form of engineering change notices, bills of material, drawings, PCB design/manufacturing files, test specifications, parts tracking, and all necessary deliverables for product release and successful factory product launch. 
• Manage engineering documentation, ECRs, ECOs, DFMEA, calculations, and drawings using the Acuity Product Life Management and Financial systems.
• Design work varies from new product development to product enhancements, cost reductions, and supporting customers, manufacturing and distribution facilities, and the supply chain as the needs of the business change.
• Independently initiate and complete product design from project charters, specification matrix provided by product managers, customer experience matrix, reviewing competitor samples, and Acuity's electronics & light engine design standards in compliance with Acuity DFx (Design for Reliability/Testability/Manufacturability).  
• Manage projects and train others on utilizing the Acuity Product Development System (PDS) to ensure project management timelines and required deliverables are complete by each team member.
• Acuity Product Development System (PDS) and DFx (Design for Reliability/Testability/Manufacturability) also ensure high-quality compliant designs that achieve the Customer Experience Matrix (CEM).
• Support ABS/LEAN Transformation by actively identifying, leading, and participating in Kaizen events and completing post-Kaizen activities to ensure documentation and standards outlive the event. 
• Lead the Electronics & Light Engine team with all process improvement activities and related research.  
• Develop and continuously improve Electronics & Light Engine processes, testing, DFx, and other documentation.
• Lead, develop, and participate in Kaizen activities.
• Submit photometry/thermal test requests and work directly with the testing group as necessary on any required follow-up.
• Work with the mechanical design team to ensure all samples submitted for testing comply with product CEM and Electronics & Light Engine testing/DFx documentation.
• Review functional specifications, project charters, competitor samples, and testing reports to ensure products comply with CEM.
• Complete luminaire product scaling activities to provide accurate product specifications that can be published.  
• Continuously identify and actively implement process improvements related to productivity, quality, reliability, design, testing, purchasing, manufacturing, including sourcing new or alternate processes/components, equipment, and/or training others.
• Look for advancements or changes in technology to improve Acuity products or market position.  
• Partner with Acuity manufacturing and distribution facilities to resolve component, testing, deviation requests, and bill of material errors to keep the production lines running while ensuring product quality. 

Qualifications 

• A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering is required (a master's is preferred).
• At least four years of applicable experience in electronics and firmware engineering design. Please be prepared to share specific examples of your experience making data-driven selections to provide highly quality electronic systems.
• Demonstrated success in creating electronic hardware designs and microprocessor firmware/code is required.
• Proficient use of schematic capture and PCB layout tools, CAD(2D), Microsoft Office 365 programs, MiniTab, SPICE, Circuit analysis tools, etc.
• Ability to communicate understanding of heat transfer/flow, thermal design considerations, electrical isolation considerations, design cost trade-offs/analysis, EMI considerations, design prototyping, and design Reliability testing.
• Experience independently and safely using and understanding results from benchtop electronics design tools, including oscilloscope, signal generator, curve tracer, power analyzer, DVM, Surge and EMI generator, spectrum analyzer, Variac, illuminance flux/CCT measurement, RLC bridge, ESR meter, benchtop sphere, and power quality measurement equipment.
• Demonstrated understanding and use of electronic component selection related to design, component tolerance stack-up analysis, component reliability analysis, simulation in computer circuit analysis tools, and system considerations.
• Ability to communicate some understanding of PCBA manufacturing, factory testing methods, component selection impacts, types of PCB materials, and why/when each is used.
• Ability to demonstrate LEAN & Six Sigma methodology and practices such as standard work, time study, cause & effect, A3, 5WHY, and other tools of DMAIC.
• Ability to clearly communicate verbally and in written form, including sketches, engineering drawings, data collection, and technical presentations to varied audiences.
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively in cross-functional and cross-matrix team environments to enable high-quality product designs and deliverables.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes within Acuity, industry, engineering, and other work activities, which produce compliant designs within business metrics.  
• Understand applicable standards such as UL, DLC, Energy Star, and testing processes related to electronics and lighting products.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% based on business needs.
• Ability to independently lift and manage products and loads up to 50 lbs.

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