Senior Staff Engineer - Transfer Switch

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Designs, validates, and brings new transfer switch products to market.
• Specifies precise new product functional requirements; designs, tests and integrates complex components to produce final designs; and evaluates the design's overall effectiveness, cost (including cost/benefit analysis), reliability (risk analysis), and safety.
• Designs, develops, executes and evaluates fitness-for-use testing, product specifications and process validation plans for a variety of complex products and/or components; creates and reviews material part specifications and bills of materials.
• Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize complex and advanced designs for manufacturability.
• Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings
• Supports product development plans (schedule, product cost, meeting design inputs)
• Acts as a resource to mentor and teach less experienced engineers

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 10+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high degree of accuracy on multiple, complex projects
• Design experience with a variety of materials (i.e. plastics, aluminum castings, sheet metal) and basic knowledge of material specs and use
• Familiarity with automatic transfer switches, bypass-isolation switches, and switchgear systems supporting critical power applications
• Strong background in new product design and development, design for reliability, manufacturability, cost, serviceability
• Proven experience leading products through certification, agency testing, compliance audits, and regulatory reviews
• Strong written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to translate technical information to all audiences
• Master’s Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Applies engineering knowledge and experience to improve products, services and processes
• Well-developed technical skills to include 3D modeling (ProE or SolidWorks)
• MS Excel, MS Word
• Experience with machine design
• Previous experience using SAP or equivalent ERP