Electrical Designer

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Electrical Designer to help design electrical drawings (wiring diagrams, schematics, control panel layouts) for machinery for a large automation company.

Salary: $80,000

Responsibilities:

Formulate and produce complete electrical design package, which includes detailed electrical, pneumatic, and hydraulic schematics, cable routing diagrams, panel layouts, bills of materials and material requisitions, based on standard specifications and the customersâ requirements.

Work with the Controls Engineering Department and other groups to ensure that labor budgets and material budgets are adhered to or improved upon.

Specify all electrical and controls-related hardware and software and produce requisitions for material purchases.

Work with mechanical designers during mechanical design process to design a control system that will enable the machine to perform its intended function safely and reliably.

Integrate third party equipment and electronic component entry into electrical design packages. Examples include serial and network communications, hardware handshaking, opto-isolation, electrical and ultrasonic welding applications, vision systems, motion control products, transducers and signal conditioners.

Verify that electrical design package is complete, accurate and safe based on sound design practices and accepted standards, and that the I/O drawings meet program requirements prior to issue to shop floor.

Work with customers, project managers, designers, toolmakers and electricians to solve problems in order to provide the customer with a complete, functional system.

Work with other members of the Controls Engineering Department and other groups to continuously improve methods of integrating controls technology.

Provide customers with training specific to their current project (i.e. electrical hardware, machine operation, programming principles, program functionality and program structure).

Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the Code of Business Conduct.

Qualifications:

BSEE degree preferred

3+ years' experience in electrical control systems design, preferably in the industrial automation field.

Experience with AutoCAD (required) and ePlan (preferred)

The ability to keep abreast of leading-edge technology is essential.

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