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Electrical Design Engineering Manager
Industrial Electric Manufacturing • Fremont, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Electrical Design Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the Electrical Design Engineering team and ensuring the quality of engineering outputs. This includes reviewing drawings, mentoring staff, and driving continuous improvement in engineering processes.
Responsibilities
- Drives continuous improvement culture, driving up quality of engineering and product deliverables
- Assigns customer orders to engineering staff; works closely with engineers to ensure they are meeting deadlines and communicating delays
- Reviews drawings and BOM to be built at the local manufacturing facility to ensure they are complete, accurate and contain all necessary information
- Takes accountability for the performance of all design engineers
- Instills and encourages a sense of personal and professional accountability in engineering staff
- Provides instruction, training, coaching and mentorship for design engineers
- Ensures engineers are following IEM processes and applying standard components/designs whenever possible
- Works with the director of engineering and local management to promptly address staff or process deficiencies
- Helps facilitate factory tours, witness tests, and technical meetings
- Supports high level testing of IEM products and systems in the local test facility
- Routinely walks the factory floors at local plants to work with production teams and inspect equipment in progress
- Follow up with necessary parties as needed
- Travel to customer sites or other IEM facilities occasionally for engineering surveys, training, engineering department meetings, technical project meetings, or other project related business
Requirements
- Four year college degree in Electrical Engineering
- At least 5 years of experience in design engineering related to switchgear, power generation equipment, custom control systems or similar
- At least 2 years of experience in a leadership role providing mentorship to design engineers
- Strong Technical Capability
- Power engineering as it relates to LV and MV switchgear from 120V to 38kV
- Design of custom control systems with automation elements within power products
- Understanding NRTL certifications and UL listings
- Functional testing
Key Skills
- Strong Technical Capability
- Power engineering as it relates to LV and MV switchgear from 120V to 38kV
- Design of custom control systems with automation elements within power products
- Understanding NRTL certifications and UL listings
- Functional testing
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support employees' well-being, growth, and long-term success
About Industrial Electric Manufacturing
Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM) is the largest independent full-line manufacturer of electrical distribution equipment and integrated power systems in the U.S. For over half a century, IEM has delivered customer-specific solutions to meet the ever changing power requirements of growth industries in North America. At IEM, tradition and technology still drive innovation. An experienced engineering staff and one of the most flexible design and manufacturing systems in the industry set IEM apart from standard product manufacturers.
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