Senior Electrical Engineer
Trystar · Houston, TX · 3 wk ago
EngineeringFull-time
About the role
Trystar is a leader in power distribution, conditioning equipment, and related services, focused on producing the highest quality products and providing industry‑leading service. Safety and integrity guide the company’s work, and teamwork drives excellence for customers every day. This Senior Electrical Engineer position is located at Trystar’s Cypress, TX facility and reports directly to the Sr. Engineering Manager.
Trystar’s guiding principles and values include:
- Safety: Everyone should leave Trystar facilities in the same or better condition than when they arrived.
- Integrity: Honest, transparent, and committed to doing what’s right.
- Customer focus: Relentless focus on customers and their success.
- Right with speed: Good judgment, thoughtful decisions quickly, executed with purpose and intensity.
- Play for each other: Teamwork is essential to achieving greatness.
- Champion change: Adaptation and improvement are required to survive and thrive.
- Enjoy the journey: An environment where the team feels appreciated and has fun.
Responsibilities
- Engineer the electrical work products for Trystar’s Power Conditioner, Rectifier, Lighting Inverter, and Battery Backup product lines.
- Develop and improve product development processes to achieve greater speed, scale, and accuracy.
- Contribute directly to customer order fulfillment while identifying process‑efficiency improvements.
- Facilitate daily support of manufacturing and production challenges.
- Vet new business opportunities, support quote packages, and recommend product changes or improvements to enhance manufacturability and reduce costs.
- Create, review, approve, and release drawings, analysis, test plans, and other electrical engineering documentation.
- Document best practices in reviews, documentation, designs, and lessons‑learned.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional discipline leaders and teams to define requirements and specifications for products and subsystems.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from an accredited university.
- Power electronics and magnetics experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment (private, public, government, or military).
Additional Qualifications
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to manage multiple tasks.
- Excellent problem‑solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication skills (oral, written, and presentation) with the ability to influence within the organization.
- Ability to adapt and thrive in a fast‑paced, high‑growth work environment.
- Proficiency with major ERP and CAD systems.
- Familiarity with PLC or embedded software programming.
- Experience designing complex high, medium, and low voltage power systems, electrical equipment upgrades, arc‑flash hazard analysis, switchgear, motor control centers, drives, lighting, emergency power, and power distribution equipment.
- Familiarity with compliance and safety design implications such as UL, ETL, IEEE, NEC, and NFPA 70E.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office.
- Passion for Trystar, its culture, and a commitment to deliver on its growth and operational metrics.