Description

The Electrical Engineering Manager is responsible for providing leadership and direction for the electrical engineering department. This position provides technical and project leadership using hands-on approaches while exercising tactical flexibility while focused on the strategic goals.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Hires and trains the electrical engineering and test technician staff.
• Oversees the daily workflow and schedules of the department.
• Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy.
• Engages in all leadership trainings, meetings, and initiatives.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Leads and coordinates various electrical engineering functions and operations; including specification reviews, drawing reviews, testing, and research and development of new and existing product lines.
• Facilitates communication among clients/customers and electrical engineers, ensuring specifications, budgets, and deadlines are clearly communicated and understood. 
• Assigns Electrical Engineering personnel to projects and tasks, as required, manages team’s performance, and proactively assists his/her direct reports to meet project goals and schedules.
• Serves as an overarching manager for multiple projects, creating timelines and cost projections, organizing collaborative meetings, and ensuring projects comply with specifications, timelines, and budgets. 
• Actively coordinate the definition of design inputs, the creation of the design descriptions and specifications.
• Leads by example in implementing current designing tools, practices, processes, and regulatory requirements.
• Reviews work and projects for technical accuracy.
• Establishes, implements, and maintains administrative policies, procedures, and standards. 
• Maintains knowledge of new trends, developments, technologies, materials, and best practices; applies this knowledge to continually improve product lines and production efficiency.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Requirements

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of protection and control systems and logic for high voltage substations
• Knowledge of medium voltage switchgear protection and overall switchgear functionality.
• Knowledge of low voltage systems for substation control buildings both for AC and DC power. 
• Knowledge of ANSI, IEEE, NEC and other industry applicable standards and codes
• Knowledge of power system analysis and associated calculations
• Familiarity with power system components and their application/specification
• Must have excellent organization, supervisory, managerial and leadership skills to manage a team of engineers and technical staff.
• Familiarity with ISO policies and safety regulations
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as interpersonal skills
• Must have proven multitasking skills and can work in fast-paced, high demand environment.
• Must have excellent analytical and computational skills.
• Be results driven
• Excellent budgeting and cost containment skills.
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement
• Familiarity with computer aided design tools including AutoCAD
• Ability to gather, analyze and summarize data in order to draw rational, fact-based conclusions

Experience/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering; Master’s Degree preferred.
• At least 7 years of related engineering experience
• Minimum 3 years of managerial experience and/or proven leadership skills

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to traverse the production floor as needed.