Entry Level Electrical Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

This position is responsible for overseeing and performing electrical engineering and controls related activities associated with the Company'ss projects and daily tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Cost estimation, equipment procurement and installation, system startup, data management and reporting.
• Serve as a technical expert on all matters concerning electrical/electronic controls and machine sub-systems. Applies in-depth troubleshooting and diagnostic techniques on a variety of systems including digital, analog, computer & logic controls, servo and sensing systems and the similar.
• Support production operations through timely scheduling and supervision of required preventative and corrective action maintenance activities involving electrical & electronic systems.
• Support maintenance technicians with a variety of electromechanical engineering needs with troubleshooting, programming/editing, training and special projects with electrical/electronic equipment and machinery.
• Required to train existing and new maintenance staff to various levels of basic and advanced electronic/electromechanical troubleshooting.
• Electrical design tasks may include heater calculations, electrical load calculations, short circuit and overcurrent protection calculations, transformer and wire sizing, panel layout, component selection, etc.
• Coordinate with local IT on network related projects and troubleshooting, assist maintenance electricians with industrial networking.
• Provides input & guidance for development of new processes, equipment, technology & procedures in reliability centered maintenance. Monitor, analyze and evaluate test data in conjunction with new process trials.
• Support the overall needs of central systems such as compressed air, coolant, HVAC, etc.

Requirements:

• BSEE/BSEET or equivalent;
• Preferred, but not required: experience in a manufacturing environment, troubleshooting programmable logic controllers
• Experience with troubleshooting of electromechanical devices such as servo motors, stepping motors, encoders, resolvers, variable speed drives and general CNC control systems such as Siemens 840D and Fanuc 0i-30i will be an area of high priority.
• Must have the ability to read and understand electrical diagrams.