Electrical and Instrument Designer

Who We Are:

For over 35 years, ISC has provided safe, high quality electrical, instrumentation and controls solutions to global leading industrial manufacturers. With offices in Baton Rouge, Beaumont, Houston, Corpus Christi, and Columbus, as well as job sites around the country, ISC has grown our team as high as 3,000 associates and offers full-service engineering, construction, and maintenance solutions throughout the United States.

The Position:

We are looking for an experienced Industrial and Electrical Designer with a wide variety of abilities that complements ISC’s culture of integrity. This position Performs phases of design work for a project of moderate size and complexity. The incumbent must be fully competent in all conventional aspects of design and be capable of planning and conducting tasks requiring independent judgment in the evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation and modification of standard design engineering techniques, procedures, and criteria.

Applicants should have the ability to:

• May provide coordination or some technical guidance to less experienced designers, specialists and engineers.
• Prepares sketches for a detailed segment of a project.
• Prepares technical specifications for review and approval.
• Evaluates vendors’ bids and drawings to assure compliance with specifications.
• Produces design drawings for assigned segment of project.
• Monitors subcontracted technical services activities.

• Assists with development of design guides, guide specifications, and design control
• Assists with calculations
• Prepares sketches for a detailed segment of a project.
• Prepares technical specifications for review and approval.
• Evaluates vendors’ bids and drawings to assure compliance with specifications.
• Produces design drawings for assigned segment of project.
• Monitors subcontracted technical services activities.
• Assists with development of design guides, guide specifications, and design control procedures.
• Assists with calculations.

Qualifications:

• Normally requires a minimum of 10 years of experience in design (or equivalent working knowledge/experience).
• This is the mid‐level of design and requires limited experience in utilizing various computer software packages and automated engineering and design equipment.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of clients, managers, designers and engineers.
• Must read, understand, and speak fluent English.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations. Ability to read and understand units of measure for length, area and volume.

Physical Demands:

• Occasionally may conduct or participate in a field trip to an operating plant or construction site. This requires normal hearing, the ability to stand, walk, reach, climb and balance, clear close and distance vision, depth perception and the ability to focus. Lifting up to 25 pounds may be required.

Work Environment:

• Normal work environment will be a business office with moderate noise. Occasionally may visit or be temporarily assigned to work in an operating plant or at a construction site. This may require exposure to outdoor weather conditions, loud noise, work near moving mechanical parts, electrical energy, construction equipment, vibration, fumes, chemicals and airborne particles.

Other Information:

• Excellent wages and complete benefits package.
• We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
• ISC evaluates and hires applicants for employment based exclusively upon the applicant’s merit. No applicant will ever be required to pay money (or any other form of compensation) to an ISC employee in order to be hired by or considered for employment with the Company.
• This announcement is not intended to be a complete listing of all similar, miscellaneous, or incidental, duties, which may be required from day-to-day. ISC utilizes the multi-skill concept and expects all associates to perform other job requirements.