Principal Electrical Engineer

Basic Details:

• Citizenship Required: United States Citizenship
• Remote Work: No
• Shift: 1st
• Travel Required: Yes, 5-15% of year
• Relocation Assistance: May be available

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform electrical design of various complex products for the military, primarily Navy, including: VFD's, control panels, switchboards, and custom internal components such as EMI filters.
• Analyze customer specifications for key design requirements and serves as an approval authority for design compliance for peer designs.
• Analyze the applicability of various Military Specifications/Standards for new technology designs and serves as an approval authority for design compliance for peer designs.
• Perform electrical simulation and other analyses using software and hand calculations to provide design confidence for real-world performance requirements as well as review and approval of peer analyses.
• Serve as the review and approval authority for drawings and technical documentation for peers.
• Work with other departments, such as programs, production, and quality, to provide timely technical solutions to production issues, and reduce bottlenecks for highly complex issues or provide guidance to lower-level engineering team solutions.
• Create supplemental work instructions, technical documentation, test procedures and more to support engineering deliverables to internal and external customers.
• Attend meetings and conferences on engineering and continuous improvement matters and makes decisions on behalf of engineering department leadership.
• Work collaboratively with other engineering disciplines to solve highly complex engineering design challenges.
• Assist with on-site and off-site testing to support the qualification of equipment for use onboard Navy ships (Shock, Vibration, Electromagnetic Interference, and other Environmental tests) independently or provides guidance to on site support team.
• Create definition of on-site qualification confidence testing methods and evaluation criteria.
• Perform Factory Acceptance Testing on completed equipment independently or provide guidance to lower-level engineering team for successful completion.
• Serve as the lead engineer for design projects, collaborating with Program Management to ensure timely completion of project deliverables.
• Serve as the engineering representative for customer meetings, formal design reviews, and conferences.
• Provide mentorship and development for the junior engineering staff.
• Assist engineering leadership with new project estimating and bid/no bid decisions.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• The following degrees in Engineering, Computer Science, Science or closely related academic field:
• (MS)& 7-12 Years Relevant Experience

OR

• (BS)& 10-15 Years Relevant Experience

OR

• (AS)& 13-18 Years Relevant Experience

OR

• Relevant Industry Experience of 15-20 Years

Basic Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of electrical engineering principles and practical application.
• Expert in the use of 2D CAD software.
• Expert in electrical integration best practices
• Thorough understanding of electrical simulation and analysis with working experience.
• Thorough understanding of electrical integration best practices.
• Must be able to work and communicate effectively with other team members, other departments, and leadership.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities
• Willingness to learn and accept and provide mentoring.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office products
• Ability to communicate work progress against a given budget and/or due date.
• Provide budgets and completion dates for the team as the lead engineer.
• Highly Experienced with MIL qualification testing (Electromagnetic Interference, Power Quality)
• Highly proficient in technical writing.

Exceptional Qualifications/Experiences:

• Expert in Software and/or Programming (TIA Portal, WinCC, Studio5000, FactoryTalk, Labview, etc.)
• Expert with Programming languages (ladder, structured text, C, C++, etc.)
• Expert in AutoCAD software or electrical schematic design software
• Strong ability to provide mentoring.

Physical Requirements:

While performing these job duties, the employee is routinely required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

This position is performed in a manufacturing environment, with some local travel between facilities.

Fairlead Integrated, LLC. and its subsidiaries are proud to be Equal Employ Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers (Minority / Female / Disability / Veterans).

To apply for this position, go here: Employment Application - Fairlead Integrated