Project Engineer - Control Panels & Incoming Line Cubicles

About the Role

This full-time position leads the hardware design, technical specification development, and complete lifecycle engineering of electrical control panels and incoming line cubicles. The role balances new product engineering with a critical strategic initiative to modernize, digitalize, and standardize legacy product documentation and bill of materials (BOMs). Based in Mansfield, Ohio, the Product Engineer reports to the Director of Operations.

This position requires access to, or development of, technology or technical data subject to U.S. export control laws, including ITAR and EAR. The successful candidate must be a "U.S. Person" as defined by ITAR (22 C.F.R120.62) or obtain the appropriate U.S. government authorization. U.S. Person status includes U.S. citizens, permanent resident aliens (Green Card holders), refugees, or persons granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop control panels and incoming line cubicles in accordance with customer requirements, company standards, and applicable regulations.
• Produce and maintain electrical schematics, single-line diagrams, wiring diagrams, and general arrangement drawings.
• Define panel architecture, component selection, busbar systems, protection schemes, and control philosophies.
• Lead the modernization and standardization of legacy product documentation, converting historical drawings, manual records, and obsolete schematics into current CAD and document management systems.
• Validate, correct, and upgrade historical BOMs, technical manuals, and configurations to ensure long-term maintainability.
• Identify obsolete electrical components within heritage designs and recommend approved, modern replacements.
• Support the migration of legacy product data and structural revision controls into PLM, ERP, and engineering databases.
• Analyze customer specifications, tender documents, and technical requirements to generate engineering solutions, technical queries, and deviations.
• Provide direct technical support to manufacturing, testing, and assembly teams to resolve shop-floor design issues and non-conformities.
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), quality inspections, and develop functional, dielectric, mechanical, and protection system test procedures.
• Collaborate with Sales, Tendering, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, and Service teams to support design reviews, customer meetings, and site commissioning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Power Systems Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in electrical engineering, hardware design, and product lifecycle management for power distribution equipment.
• Proven track record managing legacy documentation upgrades, CAD drafting conversions, or database digitalization projects.
• Extensive experience defining hardware panel architecture, busbar design, protection schemes, and low/medium voltage component selection.
• High proficiency in electrical CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN), Microsoft Office 365, and PLM/ERP databases.
• Product engineering experience within heavy rotating equipment, electric motors, generators, switchgear, or industrial control environments preferred.
• Analytical thinking, meticulous attention to data integrity, and engineering change control (ECR/ECO) management capability.
• Knowledge of global industry standards relevant to control panels and electrical cubicles (e.g., IEC, IEEE, UL) is a plus.

Working Conditions

• Daily minimum of 8 hours; weekly 40-hour minimum.
• Operates in both a professional office environment and a heavy industrial manufacturing plant floor.
• Must be willing to work flexible hours, overtime, and occasional weekends, holidays, and nights during critical project phases.
• Travel may be required (up to 25%) for customer technical meetings, vendor reviews, and site commissioning throughout the United States and abroad. Must maintain a valid passport and U.S.-issued driver’s license.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to talk, hear, read, and write/type.
• Frequently required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Occasionally required to climb and/or balance.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Must exhibit specific vision abilities including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position.