WASH Electrical Engineer, International Water Unit

About the role

Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
Design, fabricate, and test electrical power systems (including solar schemes) for water collection, treatment, storage, and distribution, ensuring performance, safety, and reliability in diverse contexts.
Develop engineering drawings, reports, technical specifications, and Bills of Material (BOMs) for domestically-developed water systems and WASH infrastructure projects globally.
Liaise with technicians to ensure components are built to engineering specification.
Advise on the technical design and implementation of electrical power schemes for field projects, consulting with Samaritans Purse field offices to address specific challenges.
Provide technical support and backstopping for global WASH projects as needed.
Review electrical aspects of project and grant proposals and reports to ensure technical accuracy, feasibility, and compliance with donor and organizational standards.
Support WASH disaster relief efforts, including deployment with Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) and serve on the Incident Management Team (IMT) as directed.

Responsibilities

• Maintain your personal relationship with Jesus Christ and be an effective witness for Him.
• Design, fabricate, and test electrical power systems (including solar schemes) for water collection, treatment, storage, and distribution, ensuring performance, safety, and reliability in diverse contexts.
• Develop engineering drawings, reports, technical specifications, and Bills of Material (BOMs) for domestically-developed water systems and WASH infrastructure projects globally.
• Liaise with technicians to ensure components are built to engineering specification.
• Advise on the technical design and implementation of electrical power schemes for field projects, consulting with Samaritans Purse field offices to address specific challenges.
• Provide technical support and backstopping for global WASH projects as needed.
• Review electrical aspects of project and grant proposals and reports to ensure technical accuracy, feasibility, and compliance with donor and organizational standards.
• Support WASH disaster relief efforts, including deployment with Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) and serve on the Incident Management Team (IMT) as directed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in electrical or power engineering as well as five (5) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Significant international experience and demonstrated success in cross-cultural communication and ministry preferred.
• Professional engineer credentials strongly preferred.

Qualifications & Experience

• Knowledge of foreign languages is helpful.

Skills

• Ability to design, build, test, and refine electro-mechanical systems including solar/hybrid power schemes.
• Experience in 3-D modeling software, such as: Fusion360 (preferred), Solidworks, or SketchUp.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Benefits

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days