What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineering Project Manager position at SoloPoint Solutions (Wisconsin)?
About Us
SoloPoint Solutions (Wisconsin) is a leading provider of electrical engineering solutions.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Electrical Engineer to lead our electrical engineering team. This is a contract-to-hire position with the opportunity to convert to a permanent role.
The successful candidate will be responsible for managing multiple projects simultaneously, including electrical project design and PLC software development. They will also provide technical supervision to junior engineers and technicians, ensuring timely completion of projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead electrical/software engineering teams at site/office and provide technical supervision to other electrical engineers, technicians, craft, and other workers on a daily basis.
- Troubleshoot and update/modify computer programs such as PLC code or HMI programs that automate specific business processes.
- Understand, read, design, and mark up single line diagrams, schematics, panel layouts, interconnect, and conduit drawings released by Engineering.
- Calculate wire sizes, drive sizes, braking resistors, transformers, contactors, and overload protection for any model crane up to 800 volts D.C. and up to 4160 volts A.C. from schematics or other information provided by customer specifications using appropriate electrical codes and standards.
- Participate in Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) and solve problems (shop or field) by working with other engineers and service technicians, along with persons in other departments, to research and define problems, research, and prepare solutions by properly communicating with the necessary personnel.
- Be the engineering/software lead at the site to get the equipment ready for testing and then accomplish the testing in the most effective path forward as possible. This would include going through the Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) procedure, step by step, with the customer to prove the equipment works as intended.
- Excellent customer relations attitude: the individual needs to be a solution-oriented person that will work to satisfy the customer and complete the testing/start up as expeditiously as possible.
- Provide input to design improvements by providing information to the chief engineer that shows improved functions and/or cost reduction.
Requirements:
- BSEE Degree Preferred.
- 5 years of PLC programming experience.
- 5 years of doing Electrical Projects including experience with Siemens PLC software and electrical project design.
- 1 year of Siemens PLC experience.
- 2 years of Rockwell PLC experience.
- 2 years at least of doing their own PLC programs not just doing PLC changes to existing programs.
- Experience with FAT and SAT.
- PREFERRED: Experience with the following - 5 to 10 years of electrical engineering experience in doing field startups, wiring, PLC and HMI programming, and experience in setting up variable frequency drives. Rockwell PLC/HMI, Siemens PLC/HMI, Magnetek VFDs, Siemens VFDs programming preferred.
- Knowledgeable with using and applying the NEC electrical code.
- Ability to lead and work with others to maximize their productivity.
- Extremely important is the ability to be customer focused and work with even the most challenging individuals.
- Be able to travel domestically and internationally to nuclear and government facilities. Be able to stay in the field for durations of 1-2 months at a time with 20% – 40% in the field.
