What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Electrical Design Engineer position at Industrial Electric Mfg. (IEM)?
IEM is the largest independent full-line manufacturer of electrical distribution and control systems in North America. The Company has developed one of the most sophisticated electrical product manufacturing systems in the world and has cultivated partnerships with leading component suppliers resulting in optimal solutions to customer problems. IEM has offices in California, Florida, Canada and Belgium.
Purpose Of Position
This position is responsible for leading projects of all complexity assigned to the Special Projects engineering group with a focus on repeatable orders involving Power Distribution Equipment.
Essential Functions
Purpose Of Position
This position is responsible for leading projects of all complexity assigned to the Special Projects engineering group with a focus on repeatable orders involving Power Distribution Equipment.
Essential Functions
- Serve as lead engineer on projects for Strategic Platform Clients involving high-volume, custom-designed and manufactured products.
- Proactively suggest novel solutions to problems as they arise.
- Optimize repeatable designs for manufacturing.
- Assign day-to-day project engineering tasks to junior engineers.
- Check in with engineers regularly to identify issues that could lead to missed due dates or design issues. Find solutions to keep jobs on track. Be a resource when the design engineer has questions.
- Provide insight, product solutions and reference projects to enable success of the electrical design engineering team.
- Provide mentorship and encourage growth and technical/professional advancement in the teams.
- Complete drawings reviews. Review drawings for accuracy, application of IEM standards, industry standards and constructability.
- Provide on-boarding and training for new engineering and support team members.
- Provide training exercises for the electrical design engineering team.
- Schedule meetings with manufacturing leaders at multiple build locations that are assigned the same product to identify issues, concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
- Schedule and perform kick-off meetings for new orders and new clients.
- Work closely with applications engineering during handoff of initial Basis-of-Design.
- Work with the test department and production staff to help coordinate testing of complex products.
- Advanced knowledge of 3 phase electrical system design concepts
- Strong technical capability
- Understanding NRTL certifications and UL listings, eg. UL891, UL1558, UL67, IEEE C37.20, CSA
- Project/task management and the ability to carry out a plan that moves a task to completion
- Ability to interact directly with customers, sales, other technical resources and management.
- Ability to organize tasks and explain complex subjects to junior engineering team members in a way that they can understand
- Leadership skills
- Takes ownership over projects and provides oversight to a larger cross-functional team
- Time management
- Attention to detail and thoroughness
- Excellent written and oral communications skills
- Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of design experience in power products
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, etc.).
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD drafting software.
