Electrical Engineer

The Electrical Engineer will design, develop, and test electrical equipment, components, circuits, or systems. This will be done by collaborating with Sales, Engineering teams, and Operations working on advanced, complex technical projects in order to meet the needs of our customer and supply them with a specialized solution that exceeds their expectations.

Essential Functions: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Create Electrical Schematics, panels, and machine layouts for various machine orders.
• Develops engineering design plans by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying engineering techniques and criteria. Adapt and modify engineering approaches and options.
• Develop and evaluate new engineering approaches. Perform circuit, logic, and component designs using Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques. Prepare layouts, block diagrams, and schematics.
• Collaborate with related engineering design teams. Evaluate components, materials, and suppliers.
• Identify and resolve engineering design integration/interface issues.
• Determine and establish engineering design specifications and safety standards.
• Create detailed parts descriptions for the database.
• Build a detailed bill of material.
• Research components and determine/recommend the correct one for the application.
• Design electrical controls systems that will achieve the customers' specific needs.
• Evaluate electrical systems, products, components, and applications by researching, analyzing, selecting, and applying electrical engineering concepts, approaches, techniques, and criteria.
• Design and conduct research programs.
• Analyze electrical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Professionally communicate and listen to customers to fully understand what the customer needs (internal and external customer). Continue to build strong customer relationships. Working together to achieve or exceed each customer's desired expectations.
• Support the Sales/Development Department with preliminary design philosophy to support client relationships and new opportunities.
• Work closely with the client’s team, as well as the Project Manager and Regional Sales Manager to guarantee a quality system is designed and tested to customers’ specifications.
• Troubleshoot controls and communicates issues during construction and operations to achieve a quality solution.
• Responsible for ensuring Safety requirements are met.
• Follow any other jobrelated duties/functions requested by the supervisor.
• Create and install PLC & HMI programs and all other software needed to make the machine operate as required.
• Travel to customer sites to assist in the installation or repair of the machine’s electrical system if required

Work Environment:

This role operates in a professional office setting and on the shop floor. This role routinely uses standard office equipment with Engineering programs.

Physical Demands:

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may sit for a prolonged period of time, stand and move around the equipment and to different departments. The employee will need vision to see close, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus, communicate, hear and listen while working on the shop floor with team members or collaborating with the customer.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time, Salary-Exempt position, working Monday through Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm. The salary range is $100,500. to $143,300. per year, depending on level of skills and experience.

Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communications to clearly communicate changes, issues and resolutions.
• Solves complex problems using a sequential system.
• Strengthens alliances with other departments to create opportunities internally and externally.
• Conducts research and studies new technologies to innovate and design solutions or products.
• Profits from garnering support for concepts and solutions from other team members and departments.
• Performs extensive testing and validation of designs to ensure reliability, performance, and safety standards are achieved.
• Design electrical control panels and layouts.
• Create electrical schematics and wiring diagrams.
• Program and troubleshoot PLCs and servo motion control systems.
• Commission and startup machines and control systems.
• Use Studio 5000 and AllenBradley platforms.
• Develop and review electrical drawings in AutoCAD Electrical.
• Troubleshoot electrical and control system issues.
• Support machine commissioning and system integration.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams from concept to completion.
• Communicate technical solutions clearly and effectively.
• Ensure designs meet safety standards and industry best practices.

Education and Experience:

A bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in electrical engineering with focus on engineering and manufacturing.

Candidates for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility at the time of hire.

About COMBI PACKAGING SYSTEMS LLC

Combi is a worldwide provider of industrial packaging systems. We engineer and manufacture case erectors, tray formers, case sealers, case packers, robotic packaging systems and ergonomic hand-packing stations. Our packaging solutions provide the customization and flexibility required by customers to increase production . We’re ready to work with you to find the right system to fit your specific needs.