Electrical Engineer

Located conveniently at the 89 & 93 junction in Bow, NH Pitco manufactures some of the best commercial restaurant equipment available in the market. Pitco began in 1918 and continues to grow and expand. Part of the Middleby Corporation, Pitco Brands are engineered and manufactured under one roof bringing top of the line fryers, pasta cookers and rethermalizers to customers around the globe. From your favorite local haunt to the largest global chain restaurant, our products are beloved for their innovation, ease of use and reliability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develop and maintain various electrical projects for commercial cooking equipment components while meeting all customer, manufacturing, and agency requirements.
• Perform electrical system verification and validation testing.
• Develop PCB layouts, perform component placements and determine wire routings in addition to testing and analyze system results.
• Ensure designs implement proper technologies and techniques.
• Work directly with customers, sales managers, project managers, and internal teams to identify customer requirements, establish design expectations, and meet agreed upon design, performance, and goals for projects.
• Adhere to project timelines to ensure all key deliverables are met.
• Coordinate activities to complete prototype and field testing in order to mature and validate the design of components and assemblies and meet customer needs for equipment design.
• Coordinate project activities to ensure smooth release of products into contract manufacturing meeting customer requirements and established timelines.
• Perform risk assessment tests and use results to improve design and reduce risks before reaching manufacturing.
• Contribute to the launch of new programs with manufacturing.
• Write technical papers on significant findings that can be used as a sales training aid, help promote new products, or to be published in technical journals.
• Maintain leading-edge technical proficiency and stay abreast of new trends and scientific developments in fields impacting the electrical sciences.
• Work with other departments in obtaining samples and test data. Provide other departments with information needed to prepare catalogs and other sales literature.
• Maintain laboratory notebooks to document the creation and development of new inventions. Prepare invention disclosures, and work with corporate attorneys in researching, writing, and filing patent applications. Take any necessary steps to protect intellectual property.
• Adhere to all departmental and company-wide safety and procedural policies.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor s degree (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering.
• Reference Engineering Technical Ladder for position levels.
• Strong and proficient skills in electrical, schematic and PCB design.
• Design and document test fixture for validation of PCB or electrical designs.
• Knowledge of SPI, I2C, serial, and CAN bus communication protocols a plus.
• Familiarity of higher-layer protocols (i.e.. TCP/UDP, Modbus) a plus.
• Knowledge of PLC programming a plus.
• Demonstrable skills in creating formalized specification documentation, program flow charts, and operation manuals.
• Functional knowledge of various electrical engineering principles.
• Ability to read and understand hardware schematics and datasheets.
• Ability to use electrical test equipment such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and data acquisition systems.
• Familiarity with electronic computer-aided design (ECAD) software suites (i.e.. Altium, OrCAD).
• Ability to participate and work within multi-disciplinary product development teams.
• Knowledge of software testing and evaluation a plus.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license a plus.

*This is a safety sensitive position therefore a drug test is a requirement of employment.