Lead Electrical Design Engineer for Windward Talent Group

Job Description

Job Title:     Lead Electrical Design Engineer

Department:   Electrical Engineering                     

Reports To:     Strategic Projects Engineering Manager

Location:         Jacksonville, FL (Onsite) – can also provide relocation support

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

This position is responsible for leading projects of all complexity assigned to the Special Projects engineering group with a focus on repeatable orders involving Power Distribution Equipment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Serve as lead engineer on projects for Strategic Platform Clients involving high-volume, custom-designed and manufactured products.
• Proactively suggest novel solutions to problems as they arise.
• Optimize repeatable designs for manufacturing.
• Assign day-to-day project engineering tasks to junior engineers.
• Check in with engineers regularly to identify issues that could lead to missed due dates or design issues. Find solutions to keep jobs on track. Be a resource when the design engineer has questions.
• Provide insight, product solutions and reference projects to enable success of the electrical design engineering team.
• Provide mentorship and encourage growth and technical/professional advancement in the teams.
• Complete drawings reviews. Review drawings for accuracy, application of the company standards, industry standards and constructability.
• Provide on-boarding and training for new engineering and support team members.
• Provide training exercises for the electrical design engineering team.
• Schedule meetings with manufacturing leaders at multiple build locations that are assigned the same product to identify issues, concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
• Schedule and perform kick-off meetings for new orders and new clients.
• Work closely with applications engineering during handoff of initial Basis-of-Design.
• Work with the test department and production staff to help coordinate testing of complex products.

COMPETENCIES:

• Advanced knowledge of 3 phase electrical system design concepts
• Strong technical capability
• Understanding NRTL certifications and UL listings, eg. UL891, UL1558, UL67, IEEE C37.20, CSA
• Project/task management and the ability to carry out a plan that moves a task to completion
• Ability to interact directly with customers, sales, other technical resources and management.
• Ability to organize tasks and explain complex subjects to junior engineering team members in a way that they can understand
• Leadership skills
• Takes ownership over projects and provides oversight to a larger cross-functional team
• Time management
• Attention to detail and thoroughness
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of design experience in power products
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.).
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD drafting software.

WHY CHOOSE THIS JOB?

• This role offers a competitive compensation package with fully-paid company benefits for employees.
• The company is growing 40-50% YOY with more than a 6 year backlog of projects. You will have a lot of opportunity to grow your career on both the technical and leadership side. Many manager and director level roles will be opening in the near-term to progress into. As well, the company has a great culture and takes care of employees.