VP of Engineering
About the role
This role is the first internal VP of Engineering at CORE Transformers. The role is 80% forward-looking, focusing on R&D, product innovation, and technical work to keep CORE competitive. The other 20% involves oversight, setting quality guardrails, and serving as the senior technical voice for the sales organization and customers.
Responsibilities
Own and drive internal R&D initiatives: take concepts from commercial insight to validated, field-ready engineering solutions with clear milestones and documented outcomes.
Build and maintain our standard design library for medium-voltage padmount and substation transformers, reducing reliance on fully custom orders and enabling faster, more consistent delivery across data center and construction projects.
Develop and validate transformer design innovations, with particular focus on outside-the-tank systems integration: switchgear coordination, protection schemes, controls architecture, monitoring systems, and accessory configurations that reduce installation time and field errors for our customers.
Serve as our senior technical resource for customer-facing conversations, providing engineering credibility that supports the sales and business development process at critical moments.
Ensure technical commitments made in the sales cycle are robust, defensible, and aligned with our manufacturing capabilities.
Set engineering specifications and quality guardrails for our overseas manufacturing partners, with oversight of our domestic quality coordinator and our engineer based at the partner manufacturing site.
Lead third-party testing and validation programs; produce white papers, engineering reviews, and validation packages that meet applicable industry standards and give customer engineering teams the documentation they need.
Partner with marketing to develop technical sales collateral, case studies, spec sheets, and customer-facing documentation that translate engineering quality into compelling proof points.
Support IP protection strategy in partnership with legal, including contributing engineering perspective to patent and trade secret decisions.
Build the technical foundation as CORE expands into new product categories and market segments; this role has the potential to grow into broader engineering leadership as the team scales.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
10+ years of engineering experience in power systems, medium-voltage electrical infrastructure, or transformer applications. The right candidate has spent meaningful time in this space and can speak fluently about it.
Strong working knowledge of outside-the-tank systems: switchgear integration, protection and controls architecture, overcurrent protection, CT configurations, monitoring systems, and how transformers interface with upstream and downstream electrical infrastructure.
Experience in data center, hyperscaler, or large-scale construction power systems. If you have worked on projects at this scale, you already know the pace and precision these customers expect.
Experience coordinating with manufacturers or engineering partners: managing technical specifications, reviewing test results, and maintaining quality standards across a supply chain.
The ability to communicate clearly and confidently with customer engineering teams. Our sales organization would want you on the call.
Experience leading engineering projects through to documented outcomes: testing, validation, white papers, and customer-facing technical packages.
Strong written communication skills: you can produce technical documentation that is accurate for an engineer and useful for everyone else.
A builder's mindset. You have figured things out without a roadmap and are energized by early-stage problems.
Qualifications
Willing and able to work on-site in Seneca, SC. Relocation assistance is available.
Direct experience at or with companies in the medium-voltage transformer and electrical equipment space: GE Vernova, Schneider Electric, Vertiv, ABB, Eaton, Siemens, or similar.
Deep inside-the-tank transformer expertise: core and coil design, winding configurations, insulation systems, fluid cooling, and the nuances of liquid-filled construction.
Skills
Clear and confident communication with customer engineering teams.
Ability to lead engineering projects through to documented outcomes.
Strong written communication skills.
A builder's mindset.
Benefits
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Pay
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Schedule
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