What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer position at Watertronics?
Description
Summary
This position is primarily responsible for generating high quality, cost effective industrial control panels for water irrigation pumping systems, while ensuring compliance with engineering and safety standards, client specifications, and company policies and procedures.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
Education and Experience
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; talk or hear; and use hands to handle, or touch objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Summary
This position is primarily responsible for generating high quality, cost effective industrial control panels for water irrigation pumping systems, while ensuring compliance with engineering and safety standards, client specifications, and company policies and procedures.
Job Duties And Responsibilities
- Prepare detailed schematics, bills of material, and panel layout drawings in accordance with design specifications and established department design standards.
- Produce high-quality, low-cost designs using established company standards, while meeting applicable codes and assigned schedules.
- Stay current with applicable technology and safety standards, providing insight and guidance to others when called upon.
- Efficiently manage multiple projects at the same time.
- Provide assistance to production team during layout, assembly, and testing, resolving any issues relating to the design or bills of material.
- Continuously identify and investigate opportunities to improve electrical systems, components, and processes.
- Provide technical assistance to Applications Engineering, Sales, Service and customers as needed.
- Communicate openly. Build relationships. Be recognized as an individual that can be trusted.
- Adhere to our core values: positive attitude, adaptable, accountable, and self-motivated.
Education and Experience
- BSEE with 6 years of experience.
- Experience designing low voltage (less than 600V; 1ph and 3ph) industrial control panels; using programmable logic control systems, advanced control techniques using VFDs, cellular remote monitoring systems, and power monitoring software systems.
- High proficiency in AutoCAD-Electrical (version 2022 experience desirable), creating schematics, wiring diagrams, panel layouts, and other electrical engineering documents.
- Working knowledge of applicable USA codes and standards, especially NEC, UL, NEMA, IEEE, and NFPA. Familiarity with international codes and standards is a plus.
- Familiar with power distribution, transformers, and service switches.
- Experience with electrical enclosures and/or sheet metal fabrication is a plus.
- Strong computer skills; must be proficient with Excel; Microsoft Office preferred.
- Possesses effective oral and written communication skills.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit; talk or hear; and use hands to handle, or touch objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
