What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Controls - Design Engineer position at Phoenix Technical Solutions?
Job Description:
The Design Engineer is responsible for the management of multiple projects in terms of scope, timely delivery, quality, and compliance in a technical/engineering environment. This position interfaces with respective customer departments and local suppliers to drive project execution.
Responsibilities:
- Use creativity to find cost-saving opportunities within locomotive maintenance/repair programs for electrical components including cards and panels.
- Manage long term planning to meet the project milestone fulfillment.
- Drive cross-functional teams to execute on critical project milestones, including but not limited to: design reviews, material orders, prototype builds, field and bench testing, etc.
- Support of concept design, detailed design, and design analysis for locomotive systems and maintenance processes.
- Interface/work with shop personnel during developmental stages.
- Ownership of stated technical/cost/reliability/performance requirements of the project.
- Interacting with material planning, purchasing, quality, engineering sub-system teams, drafting and global engineering sites.
- Participate and present in business and design reviews.
- Work with project consisting of electrical components (AC & DC motors, alternators, transformers) and power electronics (SCR, GTO, IGBT)
Desired Skills:
- Experience with managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Solid interpersonal/communication and leadership abilities.
- Strong engineering background and proven experience with leading various technical projects.
- Knowledge of reliability data analysis through statistical modeling.
- Experience/knowledge with general manufacturing processes and business practices.
- Additional experience/knowledge with locomotive systems a plus