ELECTRICAL MANUFACTURING ENGINEER
About the role
The Manufacturing Engineering department at Custom Truck One Source combines product design and process improvement. This role involves creating new hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic schematics to reduce installation time, enhance build quality, and prevent future warranty claims. Additionally, the associate will review current hyd, elec, and pneu parts and system designs to streamline production processes, reducing build time and increasing quality by eliminating waste.
Responsibilities
- Research, develop, and test new products and systems layouts.
- Create detailed schematics of Hydraulic, Electrical, and Pneumatic systems.
- Create standards necessary to implement new products and designs across multiple product lines.
- Integrate customer specifications with machine requirements and chassis requirements.
- Work with materials team to ensure parts are ordered and delivered on time to production.
- Analyze current production processes to find waste in the process.
- Formulate with team members a process to reduce found waste.
- Work with chassis procurement team to implement measures that will decrease production time.
- Any other assignments as required.
Requirements
- Associates Degree in Engineering or Engineering Technology.
- Ability to read and comprehend part drawings and wiring or hydraulic schematics.
- Ability to produce schematics.
- Microsoft Office software – especially Excel and Word.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Must possess the ability to speak effectively with customers or employees of organization.
Preferred Skills
- Two (2) years of engineering experience in manufacturing environment.
- Two (2) years of engineering experience in automotive design related field.
- Two (2) years of engineering experience in vocational truck assembly.
- Ability to identify complex build challenges and implement solutions quickly and correctly.
- Ability to understand 12V electrical systems.
- Ability to understand hydraulic plumbing systems.
Other Skills & Abilities
- Highly detail oriented and organized in work.
- Acceptable written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with a customer service focus with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving and results.
- Must have initiative and the ability act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives.
- Must possess a strong desire to learn.
- Mechanical skills / experience with heavy trucks and heavy equipment is a plus.
Physical Demands
- Occasionally walks, climbs stairs and ladders, uses hands to finger, handle, or feel, reaches with hands and arms, talks or hears, sits, moves about the facility, lifts and/or moves up to 50 pounds, occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 100 pounds, occasionally exposed to extreme cold, and extreme heat, noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud, works well within a matrix organization.
Benefits
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Competitive Health Care, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Holidays
- STD/LTD
- Partner Discounts
- Investment in Employee Development
Work Environment
- Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, outdoor weather conditions, moving mechanical parts, and vibration.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Custom Truck One Source is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.