Facilities Engineer – Electrical Design

Career Area:
Manufacturing

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We are seeking a skilled Facilities Electrical Engineer to join our R&D team focused on designing and building advanced test cells for large power systems. This role involves end-to-end responsibility for electrical system design, component selection, and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-performance testing environments.

• Design test cell electrical systems ranging from 10 kW to 4 MW.
• Perform analysis to determine motor and drive sizing.
• Perform analysis to calculate arc flash incident energy.
• Work with suppliers to procure electrical components.
• Develop preventive maintenance schedules for electrical components.
• Work with a diverse team of mechanical designers, PLC programmers, project coordinators, and facility engineers to plan and build tests in a research and development environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven experience in high-power electrical system design and analysis.
• Strong understanding of motor control, drive systems, and industrial electrical components.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams.
• Effective Communications (working knowledge):
  Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
• Looks for and considers non‑verbal cues from individuals and groups.
• Problem Solving (working knowledge):
  Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact‑finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.
• Project Management (basic understanding):
  Knowledge of effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
• Identifies project management tools and requirements within own function.
• Describes the key objectives, phases and deliverables of a current project.
• Explains the concepts of phase, activity, task, and deliverable.
• Gives examples of critical paths in projects.
• Troubleshooting Technical Problems (working knowledge):
  Knowledge of troubleshooting approaches, tools and techniques; ability to anticipate, detect and resolve technical problems in a manufacturing environment.
• Documents common hardware, software and communications problems and likely resolutions.
• Troubleshoots typical technical problems in a specific area.
• Works with vendor‑specific diagnostic guides, tools and utilities to discover application problems.
• Adheres to standard troubleshooting procedures to ensure effectiveness of resolutions.
• Participates in setting evaluation standards and criterion for…