Electrical Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Designs, tests, installs, and maintains large-scale electronic equipment or machinery for use in manufacturing, power generation, or transmission.
• May use computer-assisted engineering design software and equipment to perform assignments.
• Applies principles and techniques of electrical engineering to accomplish goals.
• Confers with vendors, contractors, maintenance personnel, and other engineers concerning the design, implementation, and maintenance of electrical equipment, facilities, components, products, and systems to ensure equipment and systems are process capable.
• Confers with planning and design staff concerning equipment design and tooling to ensure efficient production methods.
• Confers with vendors to determine equipment specifications and arrange for purchase of equipment, materials, or parts, and evaluates equipment according to specifications and quality standards.
• Researches and analyzes data such as equipment design proposal, specifications, and manuals to determine feasibility of design for application.
• Designs products or systems such as instruments, controls, robots, engines, machines, and mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, or heat transfer systems.
• Plans and directs engineering personnel in fabrication of test control apparatus and equipment, and development of methods and procedures for testing equipment or systems.
• Directs and coordinates fabrication and installation activities to ensure equipment and systems conform to engineering design and specifications.
• Coincides operation, maintenance, and repair activities to obtain optimum utilization of machines and equipment.
• Designs products and systems to interface machines, hardware, and software.
• Evaluates installations and recommends design modifications to eliminate machine or system malfunctions.
• Applies statistical methods to estimate equipment capability to meet future manufacturing requirements.

Technical Skills Required

• Ability to troubleshoot complex electrical and mechanical systems to the component level
• Competent in programming and troubleshooting controls with emphasis on motion controllers
• Preferably Mitsubishi PLC’s
• Able to perform calibration of electrical systems and components
• Ability to read, interpret, troubleshoot, and modify complex PLC and Servo programs
• Ability to troubleshoot and repair PLC systems
• Communicate and work in a professional manner with associates from all departments
• Able to manage projects from concept to implementation
• Interface well with vendors and contractors to obtain parts, equipment, and services in a cost effective and timely manner

Pluses

• Utilities experience
• Instrumentation
• CAD programming